The Synthesis of Starch

Following the uptake of carbon into the amyloplast, starch synthesis proceeds variously via (i) plastidial phosphoglucomutase and plastidial...

Uptake of Carbon into Amyloplasts

The form in which carbon crosses the amyloplast membrane and enters into starch biosynthesis has been the subject of considerable debate. Categorical...

Production of Hexose Phosphates in the Cytosol

The circular pathway operating between sucrose and hexose phosphates is well established and has been intensively investigated (Figures 25.1...

Pathways of Heterotrophic Carbohydrate Metabolism

The Supply of Sucrose In photosynthetic and gluconeogenic tissues sucrose is predominantly exported from cells, most probably by facilitated...

Carbohydrate Metabolism in Plants

The yield from crop plants has been subject to constant improvement through conventional breeding and refinements in agricultural practice for...

Map of Plant Protein Interactions

An international team of scientists has described their mapping and early analyses of thousands of protein-to-protein interactions within the...

Plants as a Green Pharmacopoeia

We all routinely consume plant secondary metabolites—such as caffeine—without necessarily considering the complex biochemistry that is behind...

Green Vaccines

Vaccination is one of the most successful developments in preventive human healthcare. In their contribution, Mor and Mason describe how edible...

Hijacking the Factory Management—Using Viral Vectors for Protein Expression

There are, of course, alternative ways of exploiting the protein synthesis machinery of plants for the production of foreign proteins. The earliest...

Harvesting Recombinant Proteins from Food Crops

Many recombinant proteins have been produced in those plants that are ideally suited for laboratory experiments, such as tobacco or Arabidopsis...

An Introduction to Industrial and Pharmaceutical Protein Production in Plants

Advances in plant molecular biotechnology do not merely mean that farmers and research scientists alike can now contemplate a more than adequate...