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Discoveries in plant biology. Volume III /

Scientific progress hinges on continual discovery and the extension of previous discoveries. The important series of volumes, Discoveries in Plant Biology, is specially compiled to provide a microcosmic atlas of the landmark discoveries that span the breadth of plant biology. Written by renowned pla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kung, Shain-dow, Yang, Shan-Fa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 1. The discovery of the essential elements / Emanuel Epstein
  • 2. The discovery of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as the immediate precursor of ethylene / Douglas O. Adams
  • 3. Discovery of auxin / Yoshio Masuda and Seiichiro Kamisaka
  • 4. Non-reducing saccharides: floridosides and sucrose / Su Jong-Ching
  • 5. Chlorophyll biosynthesis I: from analysis of mutants to genetic engineering of the pathway / Diter von Wettstein
  • 6. Chlorophyll biosynthesis II: adventures with native and recombinant enzymes / Diter von Wettstein
  • 7. Discovery of the two parallel pathways for isoprenoid biosynthesis in plants / Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler
  • 8. Structure and biosynthesis of cellulose. Part I: structure / Alfred D. French
  • 9. Structure and biosynthesis of cellulose. Part II: biosynthesis / Deborah P. Delmer
  • 10. The discovery of starch biosynthesis / Jack Preiss and Mirta N. Sivak
  • 11. Seed storage proteins from the 1700s to the present / Masahiro Ogawa and Thomas W. Okita
  • 12. The discovery of 2S albumins as abundant storageproteins in seeds / Anthony H.C. Huang and Richard J. Youle
  • 13. The discovery of maternal inheritance of large subunit of rubisco / Kung Shain-Dow
  • 14. Chloroplast cytochromes: discovery and characterization / John C. Gray
  • 15. Discovery of plasma membrane proton pumping ATPase: our point of view / Robert T. Leonard and Thomas K. Hodges
  • 16. Plant ubiquitin / Richard D. Vierstra
  • 17. Thirty years of fun with antenna pigment-proteins and photochemical reaction centers: a tribute to the people who have influenced my career / J. Philip Thornber
  • 18. The discovery of the heat shock response in plants / Linda Chang Pi-Fang and Lin Chu-Yung
  • 19. Discovery of photoregulated gene expression / John C. Watson
  • 20. Organization and regulation of nitrogen fixation genes: 1974-1995 / Shen San Chiun
  • 21. The Ti-plasmid and plant molecular biology / Jeff Schell and Csaba Koncz
  • 22. Active ion transport in plants / Arnold J. Bloom and Alison R. Taylor
  • 23. Discovery of chilling injury /Mikal E. Saltveit
  • 24. In vitro induced haploids in plant genetics and breeding / Hu Han and Guo Xiangrong.