Intermediary Nitrogen Metabolism [Hardcover]

This volume covers the most significant advances of the last ten years in understanding intermediary nitrogen metabolism in plants. The eight chapters comprise aspects of nitrate and nitrogen assimilation, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, glutamine and glutamate enzymology, amino acid biosynthesis, ureides, and polyamine and sulfur metabolism. The volume emphasizes molecular and genetic advances as well as biochemistry and physiology. Intermediary Nitrogen Metabolism will be of interest to all plant biochemists and molecular geneticists who study nitrogen metabolism, enzymology, and amino acids.J.S. Pate and D.B. Layzell, Energetics and Biological Costs of Nitrogen Assimilation.
C.P. Vance, Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Recent Genetic Advances.
A. Kleinhofs and R.L. Warner, Recent Advances in Nitrate Assimilation.
P.J. Lea, S.A. Robinson, and G.R. Stewart, The Enzymology and Metabolism of Glutamine and Glutamate.
J.K. Bryan, Recent Advances in the Biochemistry of Amino Acid Biosynthesis.
K.R. Schubert and M.J. Boland, The Ureides.
A.F. Tiburcio, R. Kaur-Sawhney, Sr., and A.W. Galston, Polyamine Metabolism.
J.W. Anderson, Sulfur Metabolism in Plants.
Each chapter includes references.
Index.P. Michael Conn is the Senior Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. He is The Robert C. Kimbrough, Professor of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology/Biochemistry. He was previously Director of Research Advocacy and Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cell Biology and Development and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Oregon Health and Science University and Senior Scientist of the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC). He served for twelve years as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Direl³-