Progress in Botany: Structural Botany Physiology Genetics Taxonomy Geobotany/Fortschritte Der Botanik Struktur Physiologie Genetik Systema (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

A. Structural Botany.- I. General and Molecular Cytology: The Plasma Membrane and the Tonoplast.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Plasma Membrane (Plasmalemma).- a) PM Isolation and Purification.- b) Lipids.- c) Proteins.- d) Exocytosis and PM Recycling.- e) In- and Evaginations of the PM.- 3. The Tonoplast (Vacuolar Membrane).- a) Tonoplast Isolation and Purification.- b) Lipids.- c) Proteins.- d) Vacuole and Tonoplast Origin.- References.- II. Cytology and Morphogenesis of the Prokaryotic Cell.- 1. Cytology and Macromolecular Structure: Technical Aspects.- a) Artifacts.- b) Elemental Microanalysis.- c) Structure Analysis of Isolated Cytoplasmic Enzymes.- d) Enzyme Localization by Electron Microscope Immunocytochemistry.- 2. New Isolates and Taxonomical Aspects.- a) New Isolates.- b) A Bacterium Forming up to Five Endospores per Cell.- 3. Structure-Function Aspects at the Cellular Level.- a) Vesicle Formation; Cellulose Degradation.- b) Polysaccharide Storage Material in Methanogenic Bacteria.- c) The Inclusion Bodies in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.- 4. Structure-Function Aspects at the Macromolecular Level.- a) The Cellulolytic Enzyme Complex in Clostridium thermocellum.- b) An Enzyme Complex Involved in Methane Formation.- c) Organization of the Bacterial Nucleoid.- 5. Location of Bacterial Enzymes.- 6. Morphogenesis and Differentiation.- a) Septation and Filament Splitting in Methanospirillum hungatei.- b) Dynamics and Differentiation in Cell Envelope Structure.- c) Size Variation and Differentiation in Phototrophic Bacteria.- d) Spore Formation and Germination.- 7. Recognition and Attachment.- References.- B. Physiology.- I. Plant Water Relations.- 1. Water Relations of Cells and Tissues.- 2. Root Water Uptake and Water Movement Through the Plant.- 3. Stomatal Control of Transpirational Water Loss.- 4. Effects of Water Relations on Germination and Growth.- 5. Implications of Water Stress.- a) Drought Effects on Metabolism.- b) Drought Resistance.- 6. Implication of Waterlogged Conditions.- 7. Habitat Water Relations and Plant Performance.- 8. Water Relations of Poikilohydric Plants.- References.- II. Mineral Nutrition: Potassium.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Molecular Level: Membrane-Transport Proteins.- 3. The Membrane Level.- a) Interactions and Exchange of Ions and Energy Coupling.- b) Potassium Channels.- 4. The Cellular Level.- a) Transport Kinetics.- b) Compartmentation and the Regulation of Transport.- ?) Feedback Systems.- ?) Cytosolic Potassium Homeostasis.- ?) Potassium and Cytosolic pH Homeostasis.- 5. The Physiological Level.- a) Physiological Processes in General.- b) Stomatal Guard Cell Movements.- c) Rhythms.- d) Growth and Phytohormone Interactions.- e) Na+/K+-Selectivity and Salinity Responses.- f) Sugar Translocation in the Phloem.- 6. The Whole-Plant and Nutritional Level.- 7. Conclusions.- References.- III. Photosynthesis. Carbon Metabolism: New Regulators of CO2 Fixation, the New Importance of Pyrophosphate, and the old Problem of Oxygen Involvement Revisited.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Inorganic Carbon Uptake.- 3. Investigations with Isolated Plastids.- 4. The Return of RuBP Carboxylase.- 5. RuBP Carboxylase and the Limits to Photosynthesis.- 6. The Other Calvin Cycle Enzymes.- 7. Light-Mediated Enzyme Regulation.- 8. Starch Metabolism.- 9. Sucrose Metabolism: Fructose-2,6-P2, and a Role for PPi?.- 10. Mitochondrial Respiration in Illuminated Photosynthetic Cells?.- 11. Photorespiration.- 12. The Many Roles of O2 in Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism.- 13. C4 Plants.- a) Transport of Pyruvate.- b) Transport of PEP.- c) Transport of Malate.- d) Transport of Inorganic Carbon.- e) Enzymes.- f) Control of Carbon Partitioning.- 14. C3-C4 Intermediates.- 15. CAM Plants.- a) Carbon Partitioning.- b) Malic Acid Accumulation.- References.- IV. Secondary Plant Substances. Nonsteroidal Triterpenoids.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Oleanane and Ursante-Type Triterpenoids.- 3. Different Triterpenoids.- 4. Limonoids.- 5.