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Main description:
This book summarizes recent advances in understanding the functions of plant and algal lipids in photosynthesis, in development and signaling, and in industrial applications. As readers will discover, biochemistry, enzymology and analytical chemistry, as well as gene knock-out studies have all contributed to our rapidly increasing understanding of the functions of lipids. In the past few decades, distinct physical and biochemical properties of specific lipid classes were revealed in plant and algal lipids and the functional aspects of lipids in modulating critical biological processes have been uncovered.
These chapters from international authors across relevant research fields highlight the underlying evolutionary context of lipid function in photosynthetic unicellular and multicellular organisms. The book goes on to encompass what lipids can do for industrial applications at a time of fascination with plants and algae in carbon fixation and as sources for production of food, energy and novel chemicals. The developmental context is a part of the fresh and engaging perspective that is presented in this work which graduate students and scientists will find both illuminating and useful.
Contents:
1. Lipids: from chemical structures, biosynthesis, and analyses to industrial applications; Yonghua Li-Beisson, Yuki Nakamura and John Harwood
2. Role of lipids in photosynthesis; Koichi Kobayashi, Kaichiro Endo and Hajime Wada
3. DGDG and glycolipids in plants and algae; Barbara Kalisch, Peter Doermann and Georg Hoelzl
4. Galactolipids for the thylakoid development in cyanobacteria; Koichiro Awai
5. Role of lipids in chloroplast biogenesis; Koichi Kobayashi and Hajime Wada
6. Role of MGDG and non-bilayer lipid phases in the structure and dynamics of chloroplast thylakoid membranes;
Gyozo Garab, Bettina Ughy and Reimund Goss
7. Chemical genetics in dissecting membrane glycerolipid functions; Florian Chevalier, Laura Cuyas Carrera, Laurent Nussaume and Eric Marechal1
8. Triacylglycerol accumulation under abiotic stress in plants and algae; Zhi-Yan Du and Christoph Benning
9. Cellular organization of triacylglycerol biosynthesis in microalgae;
Changcheng Xu, Carl Andre, Jilian Fan and John Shanklin
10. High-Throughput Genetics strategies for identifying new components of lipid metabolism in the alga Chlamy
domonas reinhardtii; Xiaobo Li and Martin Jonikas
11.
Plant Sphingolipid Metabolism and Function; Kyle Luttgeharm, Athen N. Kimberlin and Edgar B. Cahoon
12. Plant surface lipids and epidermis development; Camille Delude, Steven Moussu, Jerome Joubes, Gwyneth Ingram and Frederic
Domergue
13. Role of lipids in plant pollen development; Dabing Zhang, Xijia Yang and Jianxin Shi
14. Long-distance lipid signaling and its role in plant development and stress response; Susanne Benning
15. Acyl-CoA binding proteins (ACBPs) in plant development; Shiu-Cheung Lung and Mee-Len Chye
16. The rise and fall of jasmonate biological act
ivities; Thierry Heitz, Ekaterina Smirnova, Emilie Widemann, Yann Aubert, Franck Pinot and Rozenn Menard
17. Green leaf volatiles in plant signaling and response; Kenji Matsui and Takao Koeduka
18. Omics of Chlamydomonas for biofuel production; Hanna R. Aucoin, Joseph Gardner and Nanette R. Boyle
19. Microalgae as a source for PUFA production; Inna Khozin-Goldberg, Stefan Leu and Sammy Boussiba
20. Understanding and engineering of the primary metabolism of cyanobacteria for bioproduction; Takashi ;Osanai, Kazuki Saito and Masami Yokota Hirai
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Publication date: April, 2016
Pages: 670
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues
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