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Title

The molecular biology of plant mitochondria / edited by Charles S. Levings III and Indra K. Vasil.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Levings, Charles S.
• Vasil, I. K.

Description

xi, 672 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• Advances in molecular biology and cell culture techniques have provided impetus to investigations of plant mitochondria. The organization of mitochondrial genomes has been intensely studied in maize, wheat, Oenothera, petunia, Brassica, and a few other species. These investigations have disclosed an unusually large and plastic genome, a unique organization based on a master chromosome and subgenomic chromosomes, and extra mitochondrial elements.
• The structural RNAs of plant mitochondria have furnished several new and exciting discoveries; they include the import of tRNAs into the mitochondria, editing of mRNAs, and the 'relaxed' nature of mitochondrial gene promoters. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is the most common mitochondrial gene mutation; it has therefore received extraordinary attention. Several mitochondrial gene mutations have been implicated in causing CMS, and attention is now focusing on the mechanism that causes pollen sterility, and how nuclear restorer genes interact with CMS genes to suppress sterility. Recently, a few other mitochondrial genes have been identified and characterized, which affect important mitochondrial fusions.
• Mitochondrial polypeptides, both nuclear and mitochondrial, are being studied to learn how they interact to form functional complexes, and how proteins are imported into the mitochondria. Protoplasm fusion experiments have provided a new and exciting means of recombining mtDNA that have generated interesting mutants, including CMS. Mitochondrial DNA replication is focusing on plasmid-like DNA and their origins of replication. Together, these studies have furnished insights into the origin of plant mitochondrial genomes and the relationships among plant species.
• This volume describes these many new and exciting findings on plant mitochondria.

Series Statement

Advances in cellular and molecular biology of plants ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Advances in cellular and molecular biology of plants ; v. 3.

Subject

• Mitochondria
• Molecular biology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Mitochondrial genome organization / David R. Wolstenholme and Christiane M.-R. Fauron -- 2. Mitochondrial plasmids: DNA and RNA / Gregory G. Brown and Mingda Zhang -- 3. Mitochondrial transfer RNAs and RNA editing / Laurence Marechal-Drouard, Andre Dietrich and Jean-Michel Grienenberger -- 4. Mitochondrial ribosomes and their proteins / Raman Kumar -- 5. Mitochondrial transcription and translation / William D. Rapp and David B. Stern -- 6. Protein import into plant mitochondria / Francois Chaumont and Marc Boutry -- 7. The biochemistry of the mitochondrial matrix / David J. Oliver and Cecilia A. McIntosh -- 8. Bioenergetics: The mitochondrial electron transfer chain / James N. Siedow -- 9. Regulation of oxidative phosphorylation in plant mitochondria / David G. Whitehouse and Anthony L. Moore -- 10. The wheat mitochondrial genome / Linda Bonen -- 11. Mitochondrial genome of rice / Koh-ichi Kadowaki --
• 12. S-type cytoplasmic male sterility in maize / Susan Gabay-Laughnan, Gracia Zabala and John R. Laughnan -- 13. The Texas male-sterile cytoplasm of maize / Gerty Cori Ward -- 14. Cytoplasmic male sterility and organelle DNAs of sorghum / Daryl R. Pring, Hoang Van Tang and Keith F. Schertz -- 15. Cytoplasmic male sterility in Petunia / Maureen R. Hanson, Helen T. Nivison and Catharine A. Conley -- 16. Cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassica species / Christopher A. Makaroff -- 17. Mitochondrial DNA in somatic hybrids and cybrids / Elizabeth D. Earle -- 18. Aberrant growth phenotypes associated with mitochondrial genome rearrangements in higher plants / Kathleen J. Newton -- 19. The mitochondrial genome of a liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha / Kanji Ohyma, Kenji Oda, Katsuyuki Yamoto, Eiji Ohta, Miho Takemura and Kinya Akashi -- 20. Mitochondrial evolution / Michael W. Gray.

ISBN

0792332245 (hb : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94039504

OCLC

• 31329949
• ocm31329949

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Columbia University Libraries