Plant Mitochondria
Mitochondria are the product of a long evolutionary history. It is now a well established fact that mitochondria did evolve from free living bacteria being the common ancestor of both, eukaryotic mitochondria and α-proteobacteria. Advances in genome seque
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Frank Kempken Editor
Plant Mitochondria
Editor Prof. Dr. Frank Kempken Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; Botanisches Institut Olshausenstr. 40 24098 Kiel Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-89780-6 e-ISBN 978-0-387-89781-3 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-89781-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to Prof. Daryl R. Pring for his lifetime contributions to the field of plant mitochondria
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Preface
Mitochondria are the product of a long evolutionary history. It is now a wellestablished fact that mitochondria did evolve from free living bacteria being the common ancestor of both eukaryotic mitochondria and a-proteobacteria. Advances in genome sequencing, the establishment of in organello and in vitro assays to name only a few, contributed significantly to advances in plant mitochondrial research. Second generation sequencing and the ability to directly sequence and analyze the whole plant transcriptome certainly will help to develop the research on plant mitochondria to another level in the future. In this book the current knowledge about plant mitochondria is presented in a series of detailed chapters, which have been organized in five main parts: (1) dynamics, genes and genomes; (2) transcription and RNA processing; (3) translation and import; (4) biochemistry, regulation and function; and (5) mitochondrial dysfunction and repair. These parts consist of two to five chapters, each written by well-known specialists in the field. The 19 chapters cover the field very well. In Part I (dynamics, genes and genomes) Volker Knoop (Bonn, Germany) and coworkers provide an insight to the evolution of plant mitochondria which is discussed in the framework of our modern understanding of plant phylogeny. David C. Logan (Saskatchewan, Canada) together with Iain Scott (Bethesda, USA) discuss mitochondrial division and fusion as primary processes controlling mitochondrial form, size, and number. Sally A. Mackenzie together with Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel (Lincoln, USA) reports on the emerging mitochondrial sequence data fro
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