Photosynthesis : Overviews on Recent Progress and Future Perspectives

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Dissecting Oxygenic Photosynthesis: The Evolution of the Z- Scheme for Thylakoid Reactions/Govindjee and Lars Olof Bjorn. 2. Molecular Architecture of Photosynthetic apparatus/Jayashree K. Sainis, Rachna Agarwal and Michael Melzer. 3. State Shifts in Photosynthetic Organisms: Tracking Traits and Techniques/Prasanna Mohanty, N. Sreedhar, Sujata Mishra and Subramanyam Rajagopal. 4. Dissipation of Excess absorbed Energy by the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Cyanobacteria/N.V. Karapetyan, V.V. Shubin, I.V. Terekhova and M.G. Rakhimberdieva. 5. The Functional Sites of Electron Transfer Co-factors in Photosystem II Studied by Pulsed EPR/Asako Kawamori and Hiroyuki Mino. 6. Delayed fluorescence of chlorophyll d and chlorophyll a, emission/excitation spectra and activation energy in photosystem II of acaryochloris marina and synechocytis sp. PCC 6803/Yoshimasa Fukushima and Shigeru Itoh. 7. Delayed Fluorescence in a Millisecond range A Probe for the Donor Side-induced Photoinhibition in Photosystem II/Ralphreed A. Gasanov, Samira A. Aliyeva and Fikret Mamedov. 8. Redox-control of Leaf variegation and Chloroplast Biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana/Dominic Rossao, Rainer Bode, Wenze Li, M. Krol, Steven R. Rodermel, Denis P. Maxwell and Norman P.A. Huner. 9. Transcriptional Response to low Oxygen conditions in Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803 includes induction of a Gene Cluster containing psb A and patC2/Tina C. Summerfield, Jorg Toepel and Louis A. Sherman. 10. Mutants of Chlorophyllase Oxygenase/Sujata R. Mishra, Young Jae Eu, Krishna Nath, Altanzaya Tovu, Ismayil S. Zulfugarov and Choon Hwan Lee. 11. A Comprehensive Study of the Effects of Nitrite Anion on Photosynthetic Electron Transport Chain/Anjana Jajoo and Sudhakar Bharti. 12. Mitochondrial Oxidative Metabolism Optimize Photosynthetic carbon Assimilation through Redox and Rox linked metabolite shuttles/K. Padmasree and Ch. Dinakar. 13. Leaf Senescence and Abiotic Stresses share chloroplast degradation ROS involvement and transcription factors/Renu Khanna-chopra and S. Srivalli. This book contains selected overviews on several important aspects of photosynthesis and provides both tutorial content and critical insight into the future of photosynthesis research. Photosynthesis has been a challenging scientific topic since it deals with the process by which a wide range of organisms from bacteria to higher plants convert solar energy to chemical energy for producing food, fibre and fuel out of small molecules of carbon dioxide and water. Deeper and greater understanding of this process holds a promise for a more sustainable Earth with enjoyable pollution-free environment with new technologies for food and cleaner energy for a peaceful and progressive society. Thus, there have been global efforts to mimic the photosynthetic process to meet the needs of the future world. This book having 19 chapters, gives glimpses of recent progress and future projections on photosynthesis, a process that feeds all living organisms and sustains the globe honours Professor Govindjee, Emeritus Professor of Biophysics Biochemistry & Plant Biology at the University of Illinios, USA. He is an outstanding researcher & teacher of photosynthesis and a global leader for stimulating photosynthesis research throughout the world. This book is useful for researcher/faculty and students as reference/text for courses in plant biology, environmental biology and agriculture.…