Plant pigments represent a large and active field of research that impacts fundamental studies of plant function and gene expression, agriculture, the processing of foods and human health. Plant Pigments and Their Manipulation provides a broad review of all the major plant pigment groups, considering the underlying biology, genetic manipulation, and applications of plant pigments within agriculture, food technology and human health. This text is directed at researchers and professionals working in plant genetics, biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology.

Research in to membrane transport has advanced rapidly. This text gives an overview of understanding of plant membrane transport in light of developments.

Plastids provides a broad, state-of-the-art review of plastids, which are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. The most common plastids are cholorplasts, which carry out photosynthesis, produce a variety of essential lipids, amino acids and growth regulators, and are involved in many essential intermediary metabolic pathways. The last decade has seen enormous advances in plastid research, and advances in our understanding of how plastids function, offering the potential for the development of safer ways of plant genetic engineering. This volume is directed at researchers and...

Giving an overview of intercellular signalling systems, capitalizing on the results of contemporary molecular biology, this volume is aimed at researchers and professionals in plant biochemistry, physiology, and cell and molecular biology.

Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 18 Plasmodesmata are the narrow channels that link plant cells together, acting as intercellular cytoplasmic bridges to facilitate communication and transport of materials between cells. While previously it was thought that they were merely passive tunnels for small solute transport between cells, there are now fervent debates about the structure, composition and active transport dynamics of these channels. This volume provides a broad, state-of-the-art review of this highly topical area, providing a point of entry to the detailed literature.

The ability to control the rates of metabolic processes in response to changes in the internal or external environment is an indispensable attribute of living cells that must have arisen with life's origin. This adaptability is necessary for conserving the stability of the intracellular environment which is, in turn, essential for maintaining an efficient functional state. The advent of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics has revolutionised the study of plant development and is now having a significant impact on the study of plant metabolism and its control. In the last few years,...

Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 23

A much clearer picture is now emerging of the fine structure of the plant cuticle and its surface, the composition of cuticular waxes and the biosynthetic pathways leading to them. Studies assessing the impact of UV radiation on plant life have emphasized the role of the cuticle and underlying epidermis as optical filters for solar radiation. The field concerned with the diffusive transport of lipophilic organic non-electrolytes across the plant cuticle has reached a state of maturity. A new paradigm has recently been proposed for the diffusion of...

Plant growth is regulated by developmental programmes that can be modified by environmental cues acting through endogenous signaling molecules including plant hormones.

This volume provides an overview of the biosynthesis, catabolism, perception and signal transduction of the individual hormone classes, followed by chapters on hormone distribution and transport, and the roles of hormone signaling in specific developmental processes. Particular attention is paid to the regulation of hormone signaling by environmental and developmental cues, sites of hormone metabolism and action,...

This text provides an overview of the advances in the physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology of mitotic and postmitotic senescence in plants. It also discusses the genetic manipulation of senescence for agricultural improvement.

The proteome comprises all protein species resulting from gene expression in a cell, organelle, tissue or organism. By definition, proteomics aims to identify and characterise the expression pattern, cellular location, activity, regulation, post-translational modifications, molecular interactions, three dimensional structures and functions of each protein in a biological system.

In plant science, the number of proteome studies is rapidly expanding after the completion of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome sequence, and proteome analyses of other important or emerging model systems...