Plant Respiration: Metabolic Fluxes and Carbon Balance

There are currently intense efforts devoted to understand plant respiration (from genes toecosystems) and its regulatory mechanisms; this is because respiratory CO2 productionrepresents a substantial carbon loss in crops and in natural ecosystems. Thus, in addition tomanipulating photosynthesis to increase plant biomass production, minimization ofrespiratory loss should be considered in plant science and engineering. However, respiratorymetabolic pathways are at the heart of energy and carbon skeleton production and therefore, itis an essential component of carbon metabolism sustaining key processes such asphotosynthesis. The overall goal of this book is to provide an insight in such interactions aswell as an up-to-date view on respiratory metabolism, taking advantage of recent advancesand concepts, from fluxomics to natural isotopic signal of plant CO2 efflux. It is thus a nonoverlapping,complement to Volume 18 in this series (Plant Respiration From Cell toEcosystem) which mostly deals with mitochondrial electron fluxes and plant-scale respiratorylosses.

Summary

Unique combination of up-to-date information on plant respiration at different scales, illustrated with color figures


Includes descriptions of key techniques to study plant respiration, such as isotopic labelling



Includes a special chapter focusing on important perspectives in the research field

Product details

• Assisted by: Guillaume Tcherkez (Editor), Jaleh Ghashghaie (Editor), Guillaum Tcherkez (Editor), Ghashghaie (Editor), Ghashghaie (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2018
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany
• EAN: 9783030098476
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3009847-6
• Pages: 302
• Illustrations: XLI, 302 p. 68 illus., 55 illus. in color.
• Dimensions (packing): 17.8 x 1.5 x 25.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 726 g
• Series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration
• Subjects: B, Regulation, Plant Physiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Carbon balance, Fluxes