Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis
Edited By
Beverley R. Green and William W. Parson |
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Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis is concerned
with the most important process on earth – the harvesting of
light energy by photosynthetic organisms. This book provides a
comprehensive treatment of all aspects of photosynthetic
light-harvesting antennas, from the biophysical mechanisms of light
absorption and energy transfer to the structure, biosynthesis and
regulation of antenna systems in whole organisms. It sets the great
variety of antenna pigment-protein complexes in their evolutionary
context and at the same time brings in the latest hi-tech
developments. The book is unique in the degree to which it emphasizes
the integration of molecular biological, biochemical and biophysical
approaches. Overall, a well-organized, understandable, and
comprehensive volume. It will be a valuable resource for both graduate
students and their professors, and a helpful library reference book
for undergraduates.
Contents:
Editorial. Preface. Color Plates. Part I: Introduction to Light-Harvesting;
Photosynthetic Membranes and Their Light-Harvesting Antennas, Beverley R.
Green,
Jan M. Anderson and William W. Parson; The Pigments, Hugo Scheer;
Optical Spectroscopy in Photosynthetic Antennas, William W. Parson and V.
Nagarajan; The Evolution of Light-harvesting Antennas, Beverley R. Green. Part
II. Structure and Function in Light-Harvesting: The Light-Harvesting
System of Purple Bacteria, Bruno Robert, Richard J. Cogdell and Rienk van
Grondelle; Antenna Complexes from Green Photosynthetic Bacteria, Robert
E. Blankenship and Katsumi Matsuura; Light-Harvesting in Photosystem II,
Herbert van Amerongen and Jan P. Dekker; Structure and Function of the
Antenna System in Photosystem I, Petra Fromme, Eberhard Schlodder and Stefan
Jansson; Antenna Systems and Energy Transfer in
Cyanophyta and Rhodophyta, Mamoru Mimuro and Hiroto Kikuchi; Antenna
Systems of Red Algae: Phycobilisomes with Photosystem II
and Chlorophyll Complexes with Photosystem I, Elisabeth Gantt, Beatrice Grabowski
and Francis X. Cunningham, Jr.; Light-Harvesting Systems in Chlorophyll
c-Containing Algae, Alisdair N. Macpherson and Roger G. Hiller.
Part III. Biogenesis, Regulation and Adaptation: Biogenesis
of Green Plant Thylakoid Membranes, Kenneth Cline; Pulse Amplitude Modulated
Chlorophyll Fluorometry and its
Application in Plant Science, Heinrich Krause and Peter Jahns; Photostasis
in Plants, Green Algae and Cyanobacteria:
The Role of Light Harvesting Antenna Complexes, Norman P. A. Huner, Gunnar Öquist
and Anastasios Melis; Photoacclimation of Light Harvesting Systems in Eukaryotic
Algae, Paul G. Falkowski and Yi-Bu Chen; Multi-level Regulation of Purple
Bacterial Light-harvesting
Complexes, Conan S. Young and J. Thomas Beatty; Environmental Regulation
of Phycobilisome Biosynthesis, Arthur R. Grossman, Lorraine G. van Waasbergen
and David Kehoe. Index.
Springer (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Dordrecht, The Netherlands
- Hardbound, ISBN -7923-6335-3
September 2003, 544 pp.
EUR 210.00 / USD 231.00 / GBP 145.00
Available at 25% discount for members of the International Society of Photosynthesis
Research
Volume 13 in the series: Advances in Photosynthesis
and Respiration, Govindjee,
series editor.
P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands
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