Announcement

Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration: Focus on PlantRespiration

I am delighted to announce the publication, in theAdvances in Photosynthesis and Respiration(AIPH) series, of two books that focus on plantrespiration. The first book (Volume 17) PlantMitochondria: From Genome to Function has beenedited by David A. Day, A. Harvey Millar andJames Whelan. The second book (Volume 18)Plant Respiration: from Cell to Ecosystem. hasbeen edited by Hans Lambers and Miquel Ribas-Carbo. These books follow two other respirationbooks (both edited by Davide Zannoni) that dealwith Respiration in Bacteria and Archaea. Thefollowing is a list of 20 AIPH volumes.

Published AIPH volumes

1. MolecularBiology of Cyanobacteria (DonaldA. Bryant, editor, 1994);

2. Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria (RobertE. Blankenship, Michael T. Madigan and CarlE. Bauer, editors, 1995);

3. Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis (JanAmesz and Arnold J. Hoff, editors, 1996);

4. Oxygenic Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions(Donald R. Ort and Charles F. Yocum, edi-tors, 1996);

5. Photosynthesis and the Environment (Neil R.Baker, editor, 1996);

6. Lipids in Photosynthesis: Structure, Functionand Genetics (Paul-Andre Siegenthaler andNorio Murata, editors, 1998);

7. The Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts andMitochondria in Chlamydomonas (Jean DavidRochaix, Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont andSabeeha Merchant, editors, 1998);

8. The Photochemistry of Carotenoids (Harry A.Frank, Andrew J. Young, George Britton andRichard J. Cogdell, editors, 1999);

9. Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism(Richard C. Leegood, Thomas D. Sharkeyand Susanne von Caemmerer, editors, 2000);

10. Photosynthesis: Photobiochemistry and Photo-biophysics (Bacon Ke, author, 2001);

11. Regulation of Photosynthesis (Eva-Mari Aroand Bertil Andersson, editors, 2001);

12. Photosynthetic Nitrogen Assimilation andAssociated Carbon and Respiratory Metabo-lism (Christine Foyer and Graham Noctor,editors, 2002);

13. Light Harvesting Antennas (Beverley Greenand William Parson, editors, 2003);

14. Photosynthesis in Algae (Anthony Larkum,Susan Douglas and John Raven, editors,2003);

15. Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria: Diversityof Prokaryotic Electron Transport Carriers(Davide Zannoni, editor, 2004);

16. Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria 2 :Diversity of Prokaryotic Respiratory Systems(Davide Zannoni, editor, 2004);

17. Plant Mitochondria: From Genome to Function(David A. Day, A. Harvey Millar and JamesWhelan, editors, 2004);

18. Plant Respiration: From Cell to Ecosystem(Hans Lambers and Miquel Ribas-Carbo,editors, 2005);

19. Chlorophyll a Fluorescence: a Signature ofPhotosynthesis (George C. Papageorgiou andGovindjee, editors, 2004); and

20. Discoveries in Photosynthesis (Govindjee, J.Thomas Beatty, Howard Gest and John Alleneditors, to be released in 2005).

The readers are requested to go to http://www.springeronline.com and search for the BookSeries Advances in Photosynthesis and Respira-tion for further information and to order thesebooks. Please note that the members of theInternational Society of Photosynthesis Research,ISPR (http://www.photosynthesisresearch.org/)and authors receive special discounts. Pleasecontact the Publisher (noeline.gibson@springer-sbm.com) for further details.

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Plant Mitochondria: from Genome to Function,Volume 17

The book, Plant Mitochondria: from Genome toFunction, edited by three outstanding authorities(David A. Day, A. Harvey Millar and JamesWhelan), provides an up-to-date and in-depthreview of the molecular aspects of plantmitochondrial function, with a focus on generegulation and protein composition. Each chapterhas multiple authors, usually from differentlaboratories and countries, ensuring a balanced andcomprehensive review of the different aspects ofmitochondrial molecular biology. The three distin-guished editors are froma very activemitochondrialresearch group established at the University ofWestern Australia and have used their comple-mentary knowledge of biochemistry, moleculargenetics and proteomics to compile an exciting viewof cutting-edge research on plant mitochondria.

The two main themes running through the bookare the interconnection between gene regulationand protein function, and the integration of mito-chondria with other components of plant cells. Thebook is divided into the following 14 chapters(names of authors are given within brackets).

Chapter 1. Mitochondrial structure and function(D.A. Day)

Chapter 2. Mitochondrial morphology, dynamicsand inheritance (D.C. Logan)

Chapter 3. Protein targeting and import (J. Whe-lan and E. Schleiff)

Chapter 4. Gene expression in higher plant mito-chondria (D. Gagliardi and J.M. Gualberto)

Chapter 5. Mitochondrianucleus interactions:Evidence for mitochondrial retrogradecommunication in plant cells (D.M. Rhoadsand G.C. Vanlerberghe)

Chapter 6. Plant mitochondrial genome evolutionand gene transfer to the nucleus (K.L. Adamsand D.O. Daley)

Chapter 7. Mitochondrial mutations in plants(K.J. Newton, S. Gabay-Laughnan and R. DePaepe)

Chapter 8. Proteome analyses for characterizationof plant mitochondria (H.-P. Braun and A.H.Millar)

Chapter 9. Alternative mitochondrial electrontransport proteins in higher plants (P.M. Finn-egan, K.M. Soole and A.L. Umbach)

Chapter 10. Regulation of electron transport inrespiratory chain of plant mitochondria (F.E.Sluse and W.J. Kiewicz)

Chapter 11. Plant mitochondrial carriers (F.Palmieri, N. Picault, L. Palmieri and M. Hod-ges)

Chapter 12. The uniqueness of tetrahydrofolatesynthesis and one-carbon metabolism in plants(S. Ravanel, R. Douce and F. Rebeille).

Chapter 13. Photorespiration: Photosynthesis inthe mitochondria (D.J. Oliver and P. Garde-strom); and

Chapter 14. Roles for reactive oxygen species andantioxidants in plant mitochondria (L.J.Sweetlove and C.H. Foyer).

Plant Respiration: from Cell to Ecosystem,Volume 18

This book has also been edited by two outstandingauthorities: Hans Lambers (of the University ofWestern Australia, Australia) and Miquel Ribas-Carbo (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain). Thesubject of the book, as provided by our distin-guished editors, is: As in all living organisms,respiration is essential to provide metabolic energyand carbon skeletons for growth and maintenanceof plants. As such, respiration is an essentialcomponent of a plants carbon budget. Dependingon species and environmental conditions, it con-sumes 2575% of all the carbohydrates producedin photosynthesis even more at extremely slowgrowth rates. Respiration in plants can also pro-ceed in a manner that produces neither metabolicenergy nor carbon skeletons, but heat. This type ofrespiration involves the cyanide-resistant, alterna-tive oxidase; it is unique to plants, and resides inthe mitochondria. The activity of this alternativepathway can be measured based on a difference infractionation of oxygen isotopes between thecytochrome and the alternative oxidase. Heatproduction is important in some flowers to attractpollinators; however, the alternative oxidase alsoplays a major role in leaves and roots of mostplants. A common thread throughout this volumeis to link respiration, including alternative oxidaseactivity, to plant functioning in different environ-ments.

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Plant Respiration: from Cells to Ecosystems isdivided into the following 13 chapters (names ofauthors are given within brackets).

Chapter 1. Regulation of respiration in vivo (H.Lambers, S.A. Robinson and M. Ribas-Carbo)

Chapter 2. Calorespiratometry in plant biology(L.D. Hansen, R.S. Criddle and B.N. Smith)

Chapter 3. The application of the oxygen tech-nique to assess respiratory pathway partitioning(M. Ribas-Carbo, S.A. Robinson and L. Giles)

Chapter 4. Respiration in photosynthetic cells (V.Hurry, A.U. Igamberdiev, O. Keerberg, T.Parnik, O.K. Atkin, J. Zargoza-Castells and P.Gardestrom)

Chapter 5. Effects of light intensity and carbohy-drate status on leaf and root respiration (K.Noguchi)

Chapter 6. The Effects of Water Stress on PlantRespiration (J. Flexas, J. Galmes, M. Ribas-Carbo and H. Medrano)

Chapter 7. Responses of plants to changes intemperature (O.K. Atkin and D. Bruhn)

Chapter 8. Oxygen transport, respiration andanaerobic carbohydrate catabolism in roots inflooded soils (T.D. Colmer and H. Greenway)

Chapter 9. Effects of soil pH and aluminum onplant respiration (R. Minocha and S.C. Mino-cha)

Chapter 10. Understanding of plant respiration:Separation of respiratory components versus aprocess-based approach (T.J. Bouma)

Chapter 11. Respiratory and carbon costs ofsymbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes (F.R.Minchin and J.F. Witty)

Chapter 12. Respiratory costs of mycorrhizal asso-ciations (D.R. Bryla and D.M. Eissenstat); and

Chapter 13. Integrated effects of atmospheric CO2concentration on plant and ecosystem respira-tion (M.A. Gonzalez and L. Taneva).

Both books are for the use of advanced under-graduates, graduates, postgraduates, and beginningresearchers in the areas of plant and agriculturalsciences, plant physiology, plant ecology, bioener-getics, cellular biology and integrative biology.

Plant Respiration: a Bit of Early History

It is a noble employment to rescue from oblivionthose who deserve to be remembered Pliny theYounger, Letters V.

A 1927 paper by Robert Emerson on Chlorellarespiration

Robert Emerson, who did his PhD work in thelaboratory of Otto Warburg, and was later myadvisor during 19561959, had published in 1927the following historical paper: Emerson R. (1927)The effect of certain respiratory inhibitors on therespiration of Chlorella. Journal of General Phys-iology, Volume x, pp. 469477. Here, Emersoncompared the effects of respiratory inhibitors,including HCN and H2S, on the green alga Chlo-rella. What Emerson showed in this 1927 paper isthat 10)4 M HCN (and H2S) stimulated, notinhibited, respiration in Chlorella. However, under1% glucose (heterotrophic condition), respirationwas 4 times faster, but inhibited by 50% by eitherH2S or HCN. All these effects were fully reversible.

Early plant respiration books

I mention here the books by F.F. Blackman; W.Stiles and W. Leach; and W.O. James. Althoughwe may not remember the old, the new is builtupon the old directly or indirectly, knowingly orunknowingly. On the personal side, my owntraining in Plant Respiration, during 19521956 atthe University of Allahabad, was under ShriRanjan, who had been a student of Felix FrostBlackman. Blackman studied both respiration andphotosynthesis. G.E. Briggs (of Cambridge, UK)has published a book on the work of Blackmanafter his death (late F.F. Blackman (1954) AnalyticStudies in Plant Respiration, Cambridge, at theUniversity Press). A great deal of the experimentalwork in Blackmans laboratory was done by one ofhis students from India, P. Parija. Most of thiswork was done in the late 1920s at Cambridge.Regarding the importance of respiration, I quoteBlackman and Parija (1928): Of all protoplasmicfunctions, the one which is, by tradition, mostclosely linked with our conception of vitality is thefunction for which the name of respiration hasbeen accepted. In 1932, the year I was born,Walter Stiles and William Leach wrote their small(124 pages) book Respiration in Plants, London:Methuen. The theories of two Nobel-laureatesOtto H. Warburg and Heinrich O. Wieland on theoxidationreduction and the enzymatic nature ofrespiration, both under aerobic and anaerobicconditions, were discussed in this book. It was the

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only book I had read during my student days. In1953, 1 year after I obtained my BSc degree, a newbook was published (W.O. James (1952) PlantRespiration. Oxford, at the Clarendon Pres. It isthis book that I studied after I had obtained myM.Sc. degree. Again, on the personal side, I wasthrilled to note that James discussed (see p. 99 and100) unpublished work of my M.Sc. Professor(Ranjan); this work was done while Ranjan was inBlackmans laboratory. It was a 282 page thor-ough and modern book. James also related respi-ration, although very briefly, to photosynthesisand commented: Possible interactions with respi-ration have been the bugbear of photosyntheticmeasurements since their beginning. He didmention the related work of Bessel Kok; RobertEmerson; Jack Myers James Franck, Hans Gaf-fron, Melvin Calvin and Andy Benson, amongothers. A 19-page bibliography was very helpful tome in finding the necessary knowledge on respi-ration at that time. The advancement in the field ofrespiration, made during the last 50 years, is reallyremarkable and exciting. To understand the his-torical evolution of research in plant respiration, Iencourage the readers to consult the followingthree books: (1) Harry Beevers (1961) RespiratoryMetabolism in Plants (Row, Peterson and Com-pany, Evanston, Illinois; (2) Helgi Opik (1980) TheRespiration of Higher Plants. London: E. Arnold;and (3) Roland Douce and David A. Day (eds)(1985) Higher Plant Cell Respiration. Encyclope-dia of Plant Physiology, New Series, Volume 18,Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

The two AIPH books on Plant Respiration,edited by David Day, A. Harvey Millar and JamesWhelan (Volume 17) and by Hans Lambers andMiquel Ribas-Carbo (Volume 18), are fascinatingand provide us with a thorough and currentunderstanding of this important area of plantbiology.

The scope of the series

Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration is abook series that provides, at regular intervals, acomprehensive and state-of-the-art account ofresearch in various areas of photosynthesis andrespiration. Photosynthesis is the process bywhich higher plants, algae, and certain species ofbacteria transform and store solar energy in the

form of energy-rich organic molecules. Thesecompounds are in turn used as the energy sourcefor all growth and reproduction in these andalmost all other organisms. As such, virtually alllife on the planet ultimately depends on photo-synthetic energy conversion. Respiration, whichoccurs in mitochondria and in bacterial mem-branes, utilizes energy present in organic mole-cules to fuel a wide range of metabolic reactionscritical for cell growth and development. Inaddition, many photosynthetic organisms engagein energetically wasteful photorespiration thatbegins in the chloroplast with an oxygenationreaction catalyzed by the same enzyme responsi-ble for capturing carbon dioxide in photosyn-thesis. This series of books spans topics fromphysics to agronomy and medicine, from femto-second (10)15 s) processes to season-long pro-duction, from the photophysics of reactioncenters, through the electrochemistry of interme-diate electron transfer, to the physiology of wholeorganisms, and from X-ray crystallography ofproteins to the morphology of organelles andintact organisms. The intent of the series is tooffer beginning researchers, advanced undergrad-uate students, graduate students, and evenresearch specialists, a comprehensive, up-to-datepicture of the remarkable advances across the fullscope of research on bioenergetics and carbonmetabolism.

Future AIPH books

I encourage students, faculty and librarians towatch for the publication of the following 8 books(Volumes 2128; not necessarily arranged in theorder of future appearance):

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regula-tion and Environment (Barbara Demmig-Adams, William W. Adams III and AutarMattoo, editors);

Photosystem II: The Light-Driven Water:Plastoquinone Oxidoreductase (Thomas J.Wydrzynski and Kimiyuki Satoh, editors);

The Structure and Function of Plastids (RobertR. Wise and J. Kenneth Hoober, editors);

Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls: Bio-chemistry, Biophysics and Biological Function(Bernhard Grimm, Robert J. Porra, WolfhartRudiger and Hugo Scheer, editors);

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Photosystem I: The Light-Driven Plastocyanin:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase (John H. Golbeck,editor);

Biophysical Techniques in PhotosynthesisResearch II (Thijs J. Aartsma and Jorg Mati-syk, editors)

Photosynthesis: A Comprehensive Treatise; Bio-chemistry, Biophysics Physiology and MolecularBiology, Part 1 (Julian Eaton-Rye and Baish-nab Tripathy, editors);

Photosynthesis: A Comprehensive Treatise; Bio-chemistry, Biophysics Physiology and MolecularBiology, Part 2 (Baishnab Tripathy and JulianEaton-Rye, editors); and

Sulfur Metabolism in Photosynthetic Organisms(David Isnaff, Thomas Leustek, Ruediger Helland Christine Dahl, editors)

In addition to these contracted books, we arealready in touch with prospective Editors for thefollowing books:

Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria, Part 2 Protonation and ATP Synthases Genomics and Proteomics Protein Complexes of Respiration and Photo-

synthesis The Cytochromes Molecular Biology of Stress in Plants Global Issues in Photosynthesis and Respira-

tion, 2 Volumes

Another book that we would like to publish is:Artificial Photosynthesis, and Global Aspects ofPhotosynthesis and Respiration. Readers arerequested to send their suggestions and futurevolumes (topics, names of future editors, and offuture authors) to me by e-mail (gov@uiuc.edu) orfax (+1-217-244-7246).

In view of the interdisciplinary character ofresearch in photosynthesis and respiration, it is myearnest hope that this series of books will be usedin educating students and researchers not only inPlant Sciences, Molecular and Cell Biology,Integrative Biology, Biotechnology, AgriculturalSciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Bio-physics, but also in Bioengineering, ChemicalEngineering, Chemistry, and Physics.

I take this opportunity to thank David A. Day,A. Harvey Millar and James Whelan; and HansLambers and Miquel Ribas-Carbo for their excel-lent editorial work for volumes 17 and 18 of theAIPH Series. I thank all the 62 authors of these twovolumes: without their authoritative chapters, wewould not have these books. I owe Jacco Flipsenand Noeline Gibson (both of Springer) specialthanks for their friendly working relation with usthat led to the production of these books. Thanksare also due to Jeff Haas (Director of InformationTechnology, Life Sciences, University of Illinois)and Evan DeLucia (Head, Department of PlantBiology, University of Illinois) for their support.

My special and particular thanks go to PhilJohnstone and Larry Orr for their friendly andexcellent services during the typesetting of Vol-umes 17 and 18, respectively. Finally, I am gratefulto Ellen Girmscheid (of Springer) for her excellentand friendly interactions during the production ofthese Announcements.

Govindjee, Series EditorAdvances in Photosynthesis and Respiration

Department of Plant BiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Urbana, IL 61801-3707, USAE-mail: gov@uiuc.edu

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