Regulation of Primary Metabolic Pathways in Plants

• 1. Rubisco: attempts to reform a promiscuous enzyme.- 2. Insights into the active site of the plant alternative oxidase and its relationship to function.- 3. The many-faceted function of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in plants.- 4. Folate synthesis and compartmentation in higher plants.- 5. Structure and function of plastid metabolite transporters.- 6. Integration of metabolism within non-photosynthetic plastids, and with the cytosol.- 7. Carbon flux to fatty acids in plastids.- 8. Compartmentation of metabolites between the subcellular compartments of leaves, the apoplast, the phloem and the storage tissue of different crop plants.- 9. Regulation of starch synthesis in storage organs.- 10. The integration of sucrose and fructan metabolism in temperate grasses and cereals.- 11. Expression of fructosyltransferase genes in transgenic plants.- 12. The application of transgenic technology to the study of sink metabolism in potato.- 13. Increasing the flux in a metabolic pathway: a metabolic control analysis perspective.- 14. Nitrate acts as a signal to control gene expression, metabolism and biomass allocation.

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