Discoveries in Photosynthesis, Volume 20, Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration

Photosynthesis Research (2006) Springer 2006 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-005-4917-2

Announcement Discoveries in Photosynthesis, Volume 20, Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration

I am delighted to announce the publication, in the (12). Photosynthetic Nitrogen Assimilation and Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Associated Carbon and Respiratory Metabo- (AIPH) series, of the first book that focuses on the lism (Christine Foyer and Graham Noctor, historical aspects of photosynthesis research editors, 2002); ‘Discoveries in Photosynthesis’, edited by Govind- (13). Light Harvesting Antennas (Beverley Green jee, J. Thomas Beatty, Howard Gest and John F. and William Parson, editors, 2003); Allen. This new volume (Volume 20) is a sequel to (14). Photosynthesis in Algae (Anthony Larkum, the following 19 volumes. Susan Douglas and John Raven, editors, 2003); (15). Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria: Diver- Published volumes sity of Prokaryotic Electron Transport Car- (1). Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria (Donald riers (Davide Zannoni, editor, 2004); A. Bryant, editor, 1994); (16). Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria: Diver- (2). Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria (Robert sity of Prokaryotic Respiratory System E. Blankenship, Michael T. Madigan and (Davide Zannoni, editor, 2004); Carl E. Bauer, editors, 1995); (17). Plant Mitochondria: From Genome to Func- (3). Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis (Jan tion (David A. Day, Harvey Millar and Amesz and Arnold J. Hoff , editors, 1996); James Whelan, editors, 2004); (4). Oxygenic Photosynthesis: The Light Reac- (18). Plant Respiration. From Cell to Ecosystem tions (Donald R. Ort and Charles F. Yocum, (Hans Lambers and Miquel Ribas-Carbo, editors, 1996); editors, 2004); and (5). Photosynthesis and the Environment (Neil R. (19). Chlorophyll a Fluorescence: A Signature of Baker, editor, 1996); Photosynthesis (George C. Papageorgiou (6). Lipids in Photosynthesis: Structure, Function and Govindjee, editors, 2004). and Genetics (Paul-Andre´Siegenthaler and Norio Murata, editors, 1998); Table of Contents of all the Advances in Photo- (7). The Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts and synthesis and Respiration books are available at: Mitochondria in Chlamydomonas (Jean http://www.life.uiuc.edu/govindjee/photosynseries/ David Rochaix, Michel Goldschmidt-Cler- ttocs.html. You may obtain further information mont and Sabeeha Merchant, editors, 1998); on the AIPH Series at: http://www.springer.com. (8). The Photochemistry of Carotenoids (Harry Please note that the members of the International A. Frank, Andrew J. Young, George Britton Society of Photosynthesis Research, ISPR http:// and Richard J. Cogdell, editors, 1999); www.Photosynthesisresearch.org receive special (9). Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism discounts. (Richard C. Leegood, Thomas D. Sharkey and Susanne von Caemmerer, editors, 2000); The New Consulting Board of the Series (10). Photosynthesis: Photobiochemistry and Pho- tobiophysics (Bacon Ke, author, 2001); Starting January 2005, and, thus, with Volume (11). Regulation of Photosynthesis (Eva-Mari Aro 20, we have a new Board of Consulting Editors. and Bertil Andersson, editors, 2001); I am delighted to welcome on board: David Knaff (USA); Sabeeha Merchant (USA); Agepati Deceased. S. Raghavendra (India); Julian Eaton-Rye (New Zealand); Anthony Moore (UK); Gernot Renger in the second editorial (Govindjee, J.T. Beatty (Germany); William Parson (USA); Christine and H. Gest) Cornelis B. van Niel, Louis N.M. Foyer (USA); and Krishna Niyogi (USA). Duysens and Eugene I. Rabinowitch; and in the Greetings! third editorial (Govindjee, J.F. Allen and J.T. I am thankful to the outgoing members of the Beatty) Roger Stanier, Germaine Cohen-Bazire past Board: Christine Foyer (UK); Elisabeth and William Arnold. In addition, all the Nobel- Gantt (USA), John Golbeck, (USA); Susan laureates related to photosynthesis research are Golden (USA); Wolfgang Junge (Germany); honored there. After the editorials, there are two Hartmut Michel (Germany); Kimiyuki Satoh overviews (by Howard Gest and Jack Myers), (Japan), and James Siedow (USA) for their followed by timelines of discoveries in anoxygenic services. Arrivederci, but please stay in touch! photosynthesis (H. Gest and Robert Blankenship) and in oxygenic photosynthesis (Govindjee and David Krogmann). These are followed by tributes to Robin Hill (by David Walker); to James Discoveries in Photosynthesis Franck (by Jerome L. Rosenberg); to Hans Gaffron (by Peter Homann); to Samuel Ruben Discoveries in Photosynthesis is a unique book. It (by H. Gest), and to Henrik Lundega˚ rdh (by brings to life not only the architects of the Anthony W.D. Larkum). ‘cathedral of photosynthesisÕ who unraveled the mysteries of photosynthesis, but the many artisans The rest of the book is arranged around the who provided the necessary data for the under- following themes: standing of this process on which almost all of our lives depend. It provides an encyclopedic bibliog- • Excitation energy transfer in photosynthesis (in raphy and the many stories on the development of order of appearance: Robert Pearlstein; Jan all aspects of photosynthesis research from the Amesz (& S. Neerken); Steve Brody; Mamoru times of Joseph Priestley and Jan Ingen-Housz to Mimuro; John F. Allen; and Pierre Joliot the present. Informal and formal photographs of (& Anne Joliot)); scientists make it a wonderful book to have. This • Reaction centers (in order of appearance: book is meant not only for researchers and grad- Roderick Clayton; Jack Fajer; William Parson; uate students, but also for advanced undergradu- James Allen; Andre´Vermeglio; Horst Witt; ates in Biochemistry; Biophysics; Microbiology; Kimiyuki Satoh; Micheal Seibert (& Michael Cell Biology; Plant Biology, and History of Wasielewski); Vlachyslav Klimov; James Science. Barber; Jack van Rensen; Petra Fromme The goal of this book was to bring before the (& Paul Mathis); Nathan Nelson (& Adam readers the excitement of discoveries, and those Ben-Shem)); involved in them, in the words and the styles of • Oxygen evolution (in order of appearance: more than 100 researchers. The book has 111 Gernot Renger; P. Joliot; Rene´ Delosme chapters, written by 132 authors from 19 coun- (& P. Joliot); Peter Homann; Alan Stemler, tries (Argentina; Australia; Canada; China; and Thomas Wydrzynski); Denmark; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; • Light-harvesting and pigment–protein complexes India; Israel; Japan; Norway; Russia; Sweden; (in order of appearance: Richard Cogdell Switzerland; The Netherlands; United Kingdom (& Hideki Hashimoto & Alastair T. Gardiner); (Great Britain), and the United States of Amer- John Olson; Teruo Ogawa; Edith Camm ica). A unique feature of this book is that almost (& Beverley Green), and Nicole Tandeau de all the chapters include photographs of scientists Marsac); involved in the research. After a Preface for the • Electron transport and ATP synthesis (in order entire book; and a special tribute to Martin D. of appearance: Terrance E. Meyer (& Michael Kamen, co-discoverer of radiocarbon 14, the A. Cusanovich); Fevzi Daldal (& Meenal book begins with three editorials. In the first Deshmukh & Roger Prince); Antony Crofts; editorial (Govindjee and H. Gest), we recognize Gunter Hauska: William Cramer; Derek and honor Martin Kamen and Robert Emerson; Bendall; Sakae Katoh; Ulrich Heber; Andre´ Jagendorf; Wolfgang Junge, and Richard ÔHistory of Photosynthesis ResearchÕ, authors of Dilley); past personal perspectives and names of those whose • Techniques and application (in order of appear- tributes have been published ance: Britton Chance; Robert Porra; Per-A˚ ke Albertsson; Rene´ Delosme; Imre Vass; Two of the best sources of the past publications in Anastasios Melis (& Thomas Happe); Ling photosynthesis research are the books by (1) Xiong (& Richard Sayre), and Roger Hang- Walter Stiles (Photosynthesis: the Assimilation of arter (& H.Gest)); Carbon by Green Plants, Longmans, Green and • Biogenesis and membrane architecture (in order Company, London, 1924), and (2) Eugene of appearance: Gerhard Drews (& Robert Rabinowitch (Photosynthesis, Volume I (1945); Niederman); L. Andrew Staehelin; Jan Volume II (Part 1; 1951), and Volume II (Part 2, Andereson; Samuel Wildman (& Ann Hirsch 1956), Interscience Publishers, New York). The & S.J. Kirchaski & Donald Spencer), and R. book by Aloysius Wild and R. Ball (Photosyn- John Ellis); thetic Unit and Photosystems, Backhuys Publish- • Reductive and assimilatory processes (in order ers, Leiden, 1997) also has an historical context. of appearance: John Ormerod; F. Robert The many personal perspectives, published Tabita; Paul Ludden (& Gary Roberts); earlier, could not be accommodated in the current Andrew Benson; James A. Bassham; David book due to space limitations. However, Govind- Walker; Samuel Wildman; Archie Portis jee and D. Krogmann (see the section on Retro- (& Michael Salvucci); Bob Buchanan (& P. spectives in this book) provide full references to Schu¨rmann & Ricardo Wolosiuk & Jean- perspectives (in chronological order) by Otto Pierre Jacquot); Masateru Shin; Marshal D. Warburg (1964); Hiroshi Tamiya (1966); Cornelis Hatch, and Clanton Black (& C. Barry B. van Niel (1967); Hans Gaffron (1969); Robert Osmond)); Hill (1975); C. Stacy French (1979); Severo Ochoa • Transport, regulation and adaptation (in order (1980); Roger Stanier (1980); Birgit Vennesland of appearance: Hans-W. Heldt; Pierre (1981); Martin Kamen (1986, 1989); Norman Bennoun; William Ogren; Barbara Demmig- Good (1986); Roderick Clayton (1988); Melvin Adams; Noam Adir (& Hagit Zer & Susana Calvin (1989); Louis N.M. Duysens (1989); W. Shochat & Itzhak Ohad); Arthur Grossman; Menke (1990); Joseph Katz (1990); William Michael Madigan, and Judith Armitage Arnold (1991); Horst Witt (1991); Britton Chance (& Klaas Hellingwerf)); (1991); Marshall Hatch (1992); A.A. Krasnovsky • Genetics (in order of appearance: Barry Marrs; (1992); Albert Frenkel (1993); Pierre Joliot (1993); Samuel Kaplan; Carl Bauer; Lawrence Y. Shen (1994); T. Akazawa (1994); Andre´Pirson Bogorad; Jean-David Rochaix; Masahiro Sugi- (1994); Howard Gest (1994); S. Katoh (1995); ura, and Sergey Shestakov); Philip Thornber (1995), G. Drews (1996); Jack • Evolution (in order of appearance: John Olson Myers (1996); David Walker (1997); N.E. Tolbert (R. Blankenship); Radhey Gupta; J. Thomas (1997); George Feher (1998, 2002); Andre´Jagen- Beatty; Ralph Lewin, and Carl Woese); dorf (1998); Martin Gibbs (1999); Giorgio Forti • Laboratories and national perspectives (in order (1999); David Krogmann (2000); Isreal Zelitsch of appearance: Yaroslav de Kouchkovsky; Leo (2001), and Andrew Benson (2002). R. Jensen has Vernon; Alexander Krasnovsky, Jr.; Olga recently published a perspective on activation of Belyaeva; Alexander Borisov; George Papa- Rubisco (Photosynth Res 82: 187–193). georgiou; Agepati Raghavendra (& Prafulla In addition, Govindjee and Krogmann have Chandra Sane & Prasanna Mohanty), and listed references to tributes published on: G. Ting-Yun Kuang (& Chunhe Xu & Lian-Bi Akoyunoglou; W. Arnold; D. Arnon; M. Avron; Li & Yun-Kang Shen); and G.T. Babcock; W. Butler; M. Calvin; G. Cheniae; • Retrospectives (in order of appearance: T.M. Cotton-Uphaus; D. DeVault; L.N.M. Duy- Govindjee (& D. Krogmann); Ashish Ghosh; sens; R. Emerson; A. Faludi Daniel; C.S. French; and Hans Rurainski. The book ends with lists N.E. Good; D.J. Goodchild; D. Hall; R. Hill; G. of photosynthesis symposia, books and confer- Horvath; S. Izawa; M.P. Klein; B. Kok; E. Roux; ences by Govindjee. J.B. Thomas; E. Racker; H.P. Kortschak; A. Moyse; A.A. Krasnovsky; W.R. Sistrom; E. agronomy and medicine, from femtosecond Kondratieva; H. Kortschak; H. Metzner; A. (10)15 s) processes to season long production, Moyse; E. Rabinowitch; E. Racker; E. Roux; N. from the photophysics of reaction centers, Shavit; A. Shlyk; W. Sistrom; H. Tamiya; P. through the electrochemistry of intermediate Thornber; N.E. Tolbert; C.B. van Niel; E.C. Was- electron transfer, to the physiology of whole sink; and R. Wurmser. Tributes and/or obituaries organisms, and from X-ray crystallography of have also been published on: Jan Amesz (Photo- proteins to the morphology of organelles and synth. Res. 71:1–4, 2002); Arnold Jan Hoff intact organisms. The intent of the series is to (Chemical Physics 294: 223–225, 2003); Andre´Pir- offer beginning researchers, advanced under- son (Photosynth. Res. 82:111–114, 2004); Jean- graduate students, graduate students, and even Marie Briantais (Photosynth. Res. 83:1–3, 2005); research specialists, a comprehensive, up-to-date Gerald T. Small (Photosynth. Res. 83:5–9, 2005); picture of the remarkable advances across the Lawrence Bogorad (Photosynth. Res. 83:17–24, full scope of research on bioenergetics and 2005); August Ried (Photosynth. Res. 83:279–281, carbon metabolism. 2005); Julio Lo´pez-Gorge´ (Photosynth. Res. 83:283–286, 2005); Gauri Shankar Singhal (Pho- tosynth. Res., 85:145–148, 2005); John Biggins Future AIPH Books (Photosynth. Res., 85:261–265, 2005). Obituaries of A. H. Brown, F. G. Fogg, Y. Fujita, L. Mcln- The readers of the current series are encouraged to tosh, V. G. Tatake, I. Vassilev, and S. Wildman will watch for the following books (not necessarily be published in the forthcoming issues of Photo- arranged in the order of appearance): synthesis Research. Further contributions of Thodor Engelmann have been recently highlighted • Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, gene Regula- by G. Drews (Photosynth. Res. 83: 25–34, 2005). tion and Environment (Editors: Barbara Dem- mig-Adams, William Adams III and Autar Mattoo) [to appear as volume 21, but has been The scope of the series delayed]; • Photosystem II: The Light-Induced Water:Plas- ÔAdvances in Photosynthesis and RespirationÕ is toquinone Oxido-reductase (Editors: Thomas J. a book series that provides, at regular intervals, Wydrzynski and Kimiyuki Satoh) [it has a comprehensive and state-of-the-art account of already been released as volume 22]; research in various areas of photosynthesis and • The Structure and function of Plastids (Editors: respiration. Photosynthesis is the process by Kenneth Hoober and Robert Wise) [it is which higher plants, algae, and certain species of scheduled to appear in 2006, as volume 23] bacteria transform and store solar energy in the • Photosystem I: The Light-Induced Plastocyanin: form of energy-rich organic molecules. These Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase in Oxygenic Photo- compounds are in turn used as the energy source synthesis (Editor: John Golbeck) [scheduled to for all growth and reproduction in these and appear as volume 24 in 2006]; almost all other organisms. As such, virtually all • Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls: Bio- life on this planet ultimately depends on photochemistry, Biophysics, Functions and Applica- synthetic energy conversion. Respiration, which tions (Editors: Bernhard Grimm, Robert J. occurs in mitochondria and in bacterial mem- Porra, Wolfhart Ru¨diger and Hugo Scheer) branes, utilizes energy present in organic mole- [scheduled to appear as volume 25 in 2006]; cules to fuel a wide range of metabolic reactions • Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis II critical for cell growth and development. In (Editors: Thijs Aartsma and Jo¨rg Matisyk); addition, many photosynthetic organisms engage • Photosynthesis: A Comprehensive Treatise: in energetically wasteful photorespiration that Physiology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and begins in the chloroplast with an oxygenation Molecular Biology, Part 1 (Editors: Julian reaction catalyzed by the same enzyme respon- Eaton-Rye and Baishnab Tripathy) sible for capturing CO2 in photosynthesis. This • Photosynthesis: A Comprehensive Treatise: series of books spans topics from physics to Physiology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Part 2 (Editors: Baishnab and outstanding suggestions during the produc- Tripathy and Julian Eaton-Rye) tion of Photosynthesis Research (Volumes 73, 76 and 80) that form the basis of this book. We thank all the authors of Volume 20: without their In addition to the above contracted books, we authoritative chapters, there would be no book. are in touch with prospective Editors for the We owe Noeline Gibson special thanks for her following books: friendly and wonderful working relationship • Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria II during the production of this book. Thanks are • Sulfur Metabolism in Photosynthetic Systems also due to Jacco Flipsen (Springer), Anita Rach- • Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria II mat (Springer), Jeff Haas (Director of Information • Protonation and ATP Synthases Technology, Life Sciences, University of Illinois at • Genomics and Proteomics Urbana-Champaign, UIUC) and Evan DeLucia • Artificial Photosynthesis (Head of Plant Biology, UIUC) for their support. • Molecular Biology of Plant Stress Mijin Park, Jill Lynch, Loan (Kelly) Nguyun (now • Global Aspects of Photosynthesis and Vu), Aheed Mohiuddin and Rumana Tayyab Respiration provided assistance during the preparation of • Chloroplast Bioengineering photographs and submission of manuscripts (2001–2004) to the press. The work was initially supported by a National Science Foundation grant Readers are encouraged to send their sugges- to Govindjee and Howard Gest (SES 00-92507). tions for future volumes (topics, names of future I thank Teruo Ogawa for providing us the editors, and of future authors) to me by E-mail painting of Kazuo Shibata that adorns the cover of ([email protected]) or fax (1-217-244-7246). this book. My wife Rajni Govindjee deserves my In view of the interdisciplinary character of special thanks for tolerating my work habits and research in photosynthesis and respiration, it is my for her help when I needed it most. Our daughter earnest hope that this series of books will be used Anita Govindjee and her husband Morten Chris- in educating students and researchers not only tiansen; our son Sanjay Govindjee and his wife in Plant Sciences, Molecular and Cell Biology, Marilyn Govindjee provided facilities at different Integrative Biology, Biotechnology, Agricultural times during the preparation of this book. Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Bio- physics, but also in Bioengineering, Chemistry, and Physics. I take this opportunity to express my heartfelt Govindjee thanks and appreciation to Howard Gest; J. Departments of Biochemistry and of Plant Biology Thomas Beatty; and John F. Allen (co-editors of and Center of Biophysics & Computational Biology the current volume) for the highest quality and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign friendliness of their editorial work. All of us are 505 South Goodwin Avenue grateful to Larry Orr for providing direction to all Urbana, IL 61801-3707 the AIPH books. We are highly indebted to Ellen USA Girmscheid (Springer) for her friendly overview E-mail: [email protected]