From the ProQuest Ebook Central (Western) eBook - 1st ed
1 The Multiple Roles of Various Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in Photosynthetic Organisms
1.2 Generation, Decay and Deleterious Action of ROS
1.3 Non-photochemical Quenching in Plants and Cyanobacteria
1.4.1 Exogenous ROS Sensors
1.4.2 Genetically Encoded ROS Sensors
1.4.3 Chromophore-Assisted Laser Inactivation (CALI)
1.5 Signaling Role of ROS
1.5.1 Signaling by Superoxide and Hydrogen Peroxide in Cyanobacteria
1.5.2 Signaling by 1ΔgO2 and Hydrogen Peroxide in Eukaryotic Cells and Plants
1.6 Light-Induced ROS and Cell Redox Control and Interaction with the Nuclear Gene Expression
1.7 Second Messengers and Signaling Molecules in H2O2 Signaling Chains and (Nonlinear) Networking
1.8 Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives
2 Photooxidation of Mn-bicarbonate Complexes by Reaction Centers of Purple Bacteria as a Possible Stage in the Evolutionary Origin of the Water-Oxidizing Complex of Photosystem II
2.2 Appearance of Photosynthesis
2.3 Classification of Photosynthetic Bacteria
2.4 Mechanism of Light Energy Transformation during Photosynthesis
2.5 The Water-oxidizing Complex of Photosystem II
2.6 Localization and Function of Bicarbonate in Photosystem II
2.7 Composition and Electrochemical Properties of Mn2+-bicarbonate Complexes
2.8 A Possible Role of Mn2+-bicarbonate Complexes for the Origin and Evolution of the Inorganic Core of the Water-oxidizing Complex of Photosystem II
2.9 Investigation of Redox Interaction Between Mn2+and Type II Reaction Centers of Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria in the Presence of Bicarbonate.
2.10 Influence of the Redox Potential of the P+/P Pair and Steric Accessibility of P+ on Electron Donation from Mn2+ to Type II Reaction Centers from Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria in the Presence of Bicarbonate
3 Hydrogen Metabolism in Microalgae
3.2 Physiology of Hydrogen Metabolism
3.6 Physiological Significance of Light-Dependent Hydrogen Production
3.7 Practical Importance of Hydrogen Photoproduction
3.8 Towards Practical Application of Microalgal Hydrogen Production
3.8.1 Hydrogenase Modifications
3.8.2 Elimination of Routes Competitive to H2 production
3.8.3 The Role of Transmembrane Gradient of the Potential
4 The Structure and Regulation of Chloroplast ATP Synthase
4.2 The Structure and Functional Basics of Chloroplast ATP Synthase
4.3 The Thiol-Dependent Mechanism of Chloroplast ATP Synthase Regulation
4.4 The Nucleotide-Dependent Mechanism of Chloroplast ATP Synthase Regulation
4.5 The Properties and the Role of Chloroplast ATPase Noncatalytic Sites
5 Structural and Functional Organization of the Pigment-Protein Complexes of the Photosystems in Mutant Cells of Green Algae and Higher Plants
5.2 The Mutants as Model Objects
5.2.1 Effects of Mutagenic Agents
5.3 The Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes
5.3.1 Pigment Content of Individual Complexes
5.3.2 Identification of Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes
5.3.3 Polypeptide Composition of Individual Complexes
5.4 Spectral Properties of Native Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes.
5.4.1 Spectral Forms of Chlorophyll in Native Complexes
5.4.2 Fluorescence Spectra of the Chlorophyll in Native Complexes
5.5 Functional Organization of the Photosystems
5.5.1 Photosynthetic Activity
5.5.2 The Value of Photosynthetic Unit
5.5.3 The Number of the Reaction Centers of Photosystems
5.6 Structural Localization of the Photosystem in Chloroplast Thylakoids
5.6.1 Spatial Localization of the Photosystem in Thylakoid Membranes
5.6.2 Localization of Carotenoids in Pigment-Protein Complexes of the Photosystems
5.7 Molecular Organization of the Complexes of Photosystem I and II
5.7.1 Structure of the Complex of Photosystem I
5.7.2 Structure of the Complex of Photosystem II
5.7.3 The Core Complex of Photosystem II
6 Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism: Strategy of Adaptation over Evolutionary History
6.2 Photosynthesis in Prokaryotes
6.2.1 What Was the First Autotroph on Our Planet?
6.2.2 Green Non-Sulfur Bacteria, Green Sulfur Bacteria, Heliobacteria: from the Archaic Way of Carbon Reduction to the Arnon-Buchanan Cycle
6.2.3 Purple Bacteria: The Emergence of the Reductive Pentose Phosphate Cycle - Biochemical "Add-ons" to the Arnon-Buchanan Cycle
6.2.4 Cyanobacteria: The Reductive Pentose Phosphate Cycle Becomes the Main Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis
6.2.5 The Main Stages of Development of Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism in Prokaryotes
6.3 Photosynthesis in Eukaryotes
6.3.1 C3 plants: Photosynthesis via the Reductive Pentose Phosphate or Benson-Bassham-Calvin cycle
6.3.2 C4 plants: Cooperative Photosynthesis
6.3.3 CAM-plants: Crassulacean Acid Metabolism
6.3.4 C4-CAM plants: Cooperation of the Second Order
6.4 About Compartmentalization and Cooperation between the Reduction and Oxidation Reactions in Photosynthetic Cells.
6.5 Examples of Physiological Adaptation of Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism to Environmental Factors at the Cellular, Tissue, and Organism Levels
6.5.1 Cooperative Relationship of Phototrophic Endosymbionts and Heterotrophic Host Cells with Carbon Assimilation
6.5.2 The Protective Role of Leaf Tissues in Illuminated Plants
7 Adaptive Changes of Photosynthetic Apparatus to Higher CO2 Concentration
7.2 Higher Concentration of CO2 and Its Effect on the Plants: History of the Question
7.3 Influence of the Higher CO2 Concentration on the Growth and Productivity of the Plants
7.4 Photosynthesis at Short-Term Increase of CO2 Concentration
7.5 Adaptive Changes of Photosynthetic Apparatus at Long-Term Effect of the Higher CO2 Concentration
7.6 The Role of Carbohydrate Metabolism in Regulation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus Activity at Increased CO2 Concentration
7.7 Soluble Sugars in Leaves and Other Plant Organs
7.8 Dependence of Photosynthetic Rate on Environmental Factors and its Regulation
8 Photosynthetic Machinery Response to Low Temperature Stress
8.1 Mechanisms of Plant Adaptation to Low Temperature
8.2 Role of Reactive Oxygen Species
8.3 Plant Cell Membranes and Their Role in Response to Low Temperature
8.4 Hormonal Response to the Temperature
8.5 Phytochrome as a Receptor of Low Temperature
8.6 Carbohydrate Function under Low Temperature
8.8 Cold Stress and Photoinhibition
8.9 Molecular Mechanisms of Plants' Response to Low Temperatures
8.10 Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives
