Plant genes, genomes, and genetics /

• Main Authors: Grotewold, Erich (Author), Chappell, Joseph (Author), Kellogg, Elizabeth Anne (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• Subjects: Plant molecular genetics.; Plant gene expression.; Genomics.; Plants > genetics.; Plant Physiological Phenomena.; RNA, Plant > genetics.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Genetics & Genomics.; Electronic books.

Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics provides comprehensive treatment of all aspects of plant gene expression. Unique in explaining the subject from a plant perspective, it highlights the importance of gene expression in how plants interface with the modern world, and notes the many aspects of gene exp...

Table of Contents:

• The plant genetic material
• The genome landscape : plastic and dynamic
• Transposable elements
• Centromeres, telomeres and chromatin
• Organelle genomes
• RNA
• The plant RNA polymerases
• Making mRNAs : control of transcription by RNP-II
• Controlling nuclear transcription
• Control of transcription factor function
• Small RNAs
• Chromatin and gene expression
• RNA processing and transport
• Fate of RNA
• Translation of RNA
• Protein folding and transport
• Protein degradation.