The Plant Endoplasmic Reticulum

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Robinson, David G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
• Series: Plant Cell Monographs, 4
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cell biology.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Anatomy/Development.

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER), called "the mother of all membranes," is spotlighted in this timely new book. The work presented here is especially exciting since GFP-technology has provided new ways of looking at the dynamics of the ER and its relationship to other organelles, particularl...

Table of Contents:

• The Morphology and Dynamics of the ER
• Targeting of RNAs to ER Subdomains and its Relationship to Protein Localization
• The ER Folding Helpers: A Connection Between Protein Maturation, Stress Responses and Plant Development
• Endoplasmic Reticulum-associated Protein Degradation in Plant Cells
• ER-to-Golgi Transport: The COPII-Pathway
• Transport of Proteases to the Vacuole: ER Export Bypassing Golgi?
• Induction of Specialized Compartments from the ER
• Synthesis of Structural and Storage Lipids by the ER
• Oleosins and Endoplasmic Reticulum in Seeds and Anthers
• Participation of the Plant ER in Peroxisomal Biogenesis
• The ER and Plant Hormones
• The ER and Cell Calcium
• The ER Within Plasmodesmata
• The ER in Replication of Positive-Strand RNA Viruses.