Molecular Biology of Plants

Abstract

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. GENOME ORGANIZATION IN PLANTS; CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAJOR KINETIC CLASSES OF EUKARYOTIC DNA; ORGANIZATION OF THE GENOME OF GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; IMPLICATIONS OF INTERSPERSION OF GENES FOR REGULATION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. REPLICATION OF CHROMOSOMAL DNA FIBERS OF ROOT MERISTEM CELLS OF HIGHER PLANTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. CHLOROPLAST DNA: STRUCTURE, INFORMATION CONTENT, AND REPLICATION; CHARACTERIZATION OF ctDNAs; INFORMATION CONTENT IN ctDNA; REPLICATION OF CHLOROPLAST DNA IN VIVO; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES. AND PROSPECTACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; SECTION III: Plant Viruses and Bacterial Agents; CHAPTER 9. REPLICATION OF RNA PLANT VIRUSES ; PLUS- STRAND RNA VIRUSES; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. VIROIDS; PROPERTIES OF VIROIDS; REPLICATION OF VIROIDS; CONCLUSIONS; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 11. THE CROWN GALL PROBLEM; BACKGROUND; CHARACTERISTICS OF TRANSFORMED TISSUES; BACTERIAL PLASMIDS; POSSIBLE NATURE OF CROWN GALL; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 12. CROWN- GALL: BACTERIAL PLASMICS AS ONCOGENIC ELEMENTS FOR EUCARYOTIC CELLS. Molecular Biology of Plants presents the formal scientific presentations delivered on the symposium on plant molecular biology, held at the University of Minnesota in 1976. The topics in this book are organized around the central dogma of molecular biology. Section I describes the organization and replication of DNA in plant chromosomes, including chloroplast genomes; Section II discusses molecular aspects of transcription and translation, ribosomal RNA gene systems and hormonal control of protein synthesis. Section III examines plant viruses and bacterial agents, in particular the crown g.