xxvi, 659 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents
Organelle Genomes and Proteomics -- to the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plant Organelles -- The Evolutionary Origins of Plant Organelles -- The Somatic Inheritance of Plant Organelles -- The Sexual Inheritance of Plant Organelles -- Plastid Genomes -- Plant Mitochondrial Genomes -- Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Genomics Applied to Plant Organelles -- Organelle Gene Expression and Signaling -- The Transcription of Plant Organelle Genomes -- RNA Editing in Plant Organelles -- Plastid and Plant Mitochondrial RNA Processing and RNA Stability -- Intron Splicing in Plant Organelles -- Translational Machinery in Plant Organelles -- Regulation of Translation in Chloroplasts -- Targeting Signals and Import Machinery of Plastids and Plant Mitochondria -- Proteolysis in Plant Organelles -- Organelle Biotechnology -- Chloroplast Genetic Engineering -- Engineering Herbicide Resistance Pathways in Plastids -- Metabolic Engineering of Chloroplasts for Abiotic Stress Tolerance -- Metabolic Pathway Engineering For Nutrition Enrichment -- Plastid Metabolic Pathways for Fatty Acid Metabolism -- Metabolic Engineering: Plastids as Bioreactors -- Cytoplasmic Male Sterility and Fertility Restoration by Nuclear Genes -- The Use of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility for Hybrid Seed Production -- Somatic Cell Cybrids and Hybrids in Plant Improvement
Summary
This book details not only basic concepts & current understanding of plant organelle genetics and molecular biology but also focuses on the synergy between basic biology and biotechnology. Forty-four authors from nine countries have contributed twenty-four chapters containing many figures and tables
