Photomovement (eBook)

D.-P. Hader, M. Lebert (Autoren)

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2001 | 1. Auflage
960 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-053886-0 (ISBN)

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This volume emphasizes the involvement of all facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses. This includes biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology and as an integral part of any approach to a closer understanding, physiology. The initial euphoria about molecular biology as the final solution for any problem has dwindled and the field agrees now that only the combined efforts of all facets of biology will at some day answer the question posed more than hundred years ago: 'How can plants see?'. One conclusion can be drawn from the current knowledge as summarized in this volume. The answer will most likely not be the same for all systems.


Donat-P. Häder, Dr. rer. nat., is a Professor of Botany, Department of Botany and Pharmaceutical Biology at the Friedrich-Alexander University at Erlangen, Germany. He received his doctoral degree and his habilitation from the University of Marburg. He had a research associate position at MSU, DOE, East Lansing, U.S.A. and was visiting scientist at the Chemistry Department, Lubbock, TX, U.S.A., CNR Pisa, Italy and the National Research Lab, Okazaki, Japan. Professor Häder has worked on the photomovement of microorganisms, the effect of solar ultraviolet radiation on phytoplankton and is involved in space biology studying the effect of microgravity on motility in flagellates. He is a member of a Committee on Ecology for the German ministry for science and technology, expert for an Enquete commission of the German Parliament and a member of a UNEP commission on the effects of the ozone destruction. One of the tools for his research activities is a real time image analysis system developed over the last fifteen years. He has published over 360 original papers and has been involved in eleven books as author, translator or editor.

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This volume emphasizes the involvement of all facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses. This includes biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology and as an integral part of any approach to a closer understanding, physiology. The initial euphoria about molecular biology as the final solution for any problem has dwindled and the field agrees now that only the combined efforts of all facets of biology will at some day answer the question posed more than hundred years ago: "e;How can plants see?"e;. One conclusion can be drawn from the current knowledge as summarized in this volume. The answer will most likely not be the same for all systems.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Table of Contents 16
Series Editors preface 6
Volume preface 8
The Editors 10
Contributors 12
Chapter 1. Photomovement: past and future 20
Chapter 2. Triggering of photomovement – molecular basis 34
Chapter 3. Action spectroscopy of photomovement 70
Chapter 4. Light responses in purple photosynthetic bacteria 136
Chapter 5. Color-sensitive vision by haloarchaea 170
Chapter 6. Photoactive yellow protein, a photoreceptor from purple bacteria 198
Chapter 7. Light perception and signal modulation during photoorientation of flagellate green algae 212
Chapter 8. Algal eyes and their rhodopsin photoreceptors 248
Chapter 9. Electrical events in photomovement of green flagellated algae 264
Chapter 10. Rhodopsin-like-proteins: light detection pigments in Leptolyngbya, Euglena, Ochromonas, Pelvetia 300
Chapter 11. Phototaxis of Euglena gracilis – flavins and pterins 316
Chapter 12. Yellow-light sensing phototaxis in cryptomonad algae 362
Chapter 13. Photo-stimulated effects on diatom motility 394
Chapter 14. Photomovement of microorganisms in benthic and soil microenvironments 422
Chapter 15. Phytochrome as an algal photoreceptor 440
Chapter 16. Keeping in tune with time: entrainment of circadian rhythms 468
Chapter 17. Photomovement in ciliates 494
Chapter 18. Electrophysiology and light responses in Stentor and Blepharisma 524
Chapter 19. Genetic analysis of phototaxis in Dictyostelium 539
Chapter 20. Photomovement and photomorphogenesis in Physarum polycephalum: targeting of cytoskeleton and gene expression by light 580
Chapter 21. Genetics of Phycomyces and its responses to light 608
Chapter 22. Phototropism in Phycomyces 640
Chapter 23. Phototropism in higher plants 678
Chapter 24. Role of the microtubular cytoskeleton in coleoptile phototropism 832
Chapter 25. Solar navigation by plants 852
Chapter 26. Light-controlled chloroplast movement 916
Keyword index 944

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.6.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-053886-X / 008053886X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-053886-0 / 9780080538860