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By L. A. Staehelin (auth.), Professor L. Andrew Staehelin, Professor Charles J. Arntzen (eds.)
The Encyclopedia of Plant body structure sequence has became a number of occasions to the subject of photosynthesis. within the unique sequence, volumes edited through A. PIRSON and released in 1960 supplied a vast evaluation of the total box. even supposing the hot sequence has dedicated 3 volumes to a similar subject, the final breadth of the insurance has needed to be limited to permit for higher in-depth therapy of 3 significant parts of recent photosynthesis examine: I. Photosynthetic Elec tron delivery and Photophosphorylation (Volume five edited by means of A. TREBST and M. AvRON, and released in 1977); II. Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism and comparable procedures (Volume 6 edited by way of M. GIBBS and E. LATZKO, and released in 1979); and III. Photosynthetic Membranes and Light-Harvesting structures (this volume). As we approached the association of the present quantity, we selected a suite of themes for assurance that may supplement the sooner volumes, in addition to supply updates of components that experience obvious significant advances lately. furthermore, we would have liked to stress the next alterations within the learn of photograph artificial platforms that have turn into more and more vital when you consider that 1977: the fad towards elevated integration of biochemical and biophysical techniques to check photosynthetic membranes and light-harvesting structures, and a renewed appreciation of the structural parameters of membrane organization.
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In some species, however, one or two additional membranes separate the chloroplast from the cytoplasm (see Fig. 3 for summary diagram; BISALPUTRA 1974; COOMBS and GREENWOOD 1976; GIBBS 1981). Thus, one additional membrane is found around dinoflagellate and euglenoid chloroplasts (GIBBS 1962, 1981; LEFORT-TRAN 1981), whereas two additional "extra-chloroplastic" membranes encompass the chloroplasts of Cryptophyceae, Haptophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Xanthophyceae, and certain Phaeophyceae (BISALPUTRA 1974; CooMBS and GREENTable 1.
A. STAEHELIN: outer membrane fraction and a reasonably pure (85-90%) inner membrane fraction (with some bound outer membrane fragments) can be obtained (CLINE and KEEGSTRA 1983; CLINE et al. 1985). 2 Info/dings of the Inner Envelope Membrane The inner envelope membrane of mature chloroplasts of C 3 plants is typically fairly smooth and is largely devoid of distinct infoldings. In contrast, conspicuous and sometimes quite long infoldings are seen in proplastids, during the greening of etioplasts, and during chloroplast development (reviewed by THOMSON 1974; DoucE and JoYARD 1979).
Plants grown under low light conditions invariably produce grana that have a larger diameter and contain more stacked membranes than those grown under high light conditions. 43 11m (LICHTENTHALER et al. 1981). Interestingly, several types of herbicides such as fluometuron (WERGIN and PoTTER 1975), methabenthiazuron (FEDTKE et al. A. STAEHELIN: (MEIER et al. 1980) and atrazine (MATOO et al. 1984) have been shown to induce the formation of large, low-light-type grana in plants grown under medium-tohigh-light conditions.