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About this book
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 plant biologists, the papers describe how classic discoveries were made and how they have served as the basis for subsequent breakthroughs.The 19 chapters in this second volume describe discoveries which contribute to the foundations of modern plant biology. The contributors, many of whom personally lit the way, bring readers back in time as if on a journey to retrace the paths and rethink the ideas they followed. These guided tours on how to decipher the natural laws will lead to an appreciation of the development of each field from simple concepts to an advanced multidisciplinary field of today. This volume will be of special interest to botanists, biochemists, plant physiologists and geneticists, and of general interest to those who are still fascinated by how discoveries are made.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CONTRIBUTORS
- Chapter 1 The Two Photosystems of Photosynthesis
- Chapter 2 Discovery of Chloroplast DNA, Genomes and Genes
- Chapter 3 The Discovery of the Complete Sequence of Tobacco and Rice Chloroplast Genomes
- Chapter 4 Discovery of Promoter Sequences of Chloroplast Genes
- Chapter 5 The Discovery of Chloroplast DNA Replication Origin in Chlatnydomonas reinhardtii
- Chapter 6 The Discovery of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes
- Chapter 7 The Discovery of Photophosphorylation
- Chapter 8 Discovery of Phytochrome
- Chapter 9 Plant Ferredoxin: a Multifunctional Electron Carrier Protein with an Unusual Genealogy
- Chapter 10 Plant Lipid Biosynthesis - A History of its Elucidation
- Chapter 11 The Discovery of Systemin
- Chapter 12 Plant Peroxisomes: Discovery and Current Advances
- Chapter 13 The Discovery of the Viroid
- Chapter 14 The Development of Plant Somatic Cell Genetics
- Chapter 15 The Discovery of Lignin
- Chapter 16 The Discovery of Water Potential
- Chapter 17 The Discovery of Tissue Culture
- Chapter 18 Integrated Action in Plant Irritability
- Chapter 19 The Discovery of the Breeding of Seedless Watermelon
- INDEX