NEW BOOK

[Govindjee]

Dear Photosythesizers:

This is to announce that Volume 4 of Advances in Photosynthesis, edited by
D.R.Ort and C.F.Yocum (Assistant Editor: I.F. Heichel): Oxygenic
Photosynthesis:The Light Reactions, has now been released by Kluwer Academic
Publishers. Its ISBN is: 0-7923-3684-4 (paper back); 0-7923-3683-6(hard-cover).
It is available from: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell,
MA 02061, USA, or PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands.I take this
opportunity to thank all the authors for their beautifully written chapters,
both the editors for editing a book that will become a landmark in the area
of photosynthesis, to Iris Heichel for really making it happen, to Larry Orr
for his excellent typesetting and desk-editing, and to Gilles Jonker for his
vision in acquiring this book for the New Series that just started a couple
of years ago.
I remain obliged to all.

Govindjee (Series Editor); Board of Consulting Editors:J Amesz, EM Aro, J
Barber, R Blankenship, N Murata and D Ort



This book has 34 Chapters; and 682 pages (including an Index).

The book is divided into the following sections (with chapters under them):

INTRODUCTION
        1.Electron Transfer and Energy Transduction in Photosynthesis: An
Overview: Ort and Yocum 1-9
THYLAKOID MEMBRANES: STRUCTURE
        2. Structure, Composition, Functional Organization and Dynamic
Properties of Thylakoid membranes:LA Staehlin and GWM van der
Staay 11-30
        3. Evolution of Thylakoid Structure: GR Wolfe and JK Hoober 31-40
THYLAKOID MEMBRANES: SYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY OF THYLAKOID MEMBRANES
        4. Control of Thylakoid Membrane Development and Assembly: AN Webber
and                 NR Baker 41-58
        5. Development of Thylakoid Membrane Stacking: L Mustardy 59-68
        6. Biosynthesis of Thylakoid Membrane Lipids: R Douce and J Joyard
                        69-101
        7. Targeting of Proteins Into and Across the Thylakoid Membrane: C
Robinson 103-112
THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: OXYGEN EVOLUTION
        8. Introduction to Oxygen Evolution and the Oxygen Evolving Complex:
TM                 Bricker and DF Ghanotakis 113-136
        9. Oxygen Evolution: RD Britt
        10. Protons and Charge Indicators in Oxygen Evolution: M Haumann and
W                 Junge 165-192
THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: PHOTOSYSTEM II
        11. Introduction to the Photosystem II Reaction Center-Isolation and
Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization: K Satoh 193-211
        12. Structure, Dynamics, and Energy Conversion Efficiency in
Photosystem                 II: BA Diner and GT Babcock 213-247
        13. Form and Function of Cytochrome b-559: J Whitmarsh and HB Pakrasi
        14. Photosystem II Heterogeneity: J Lavergne and J-M Briantais 265-287
THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: PHOTOSYSTEM I
        15. Introduction to Photosystem I: Reaction Center Function,
Composition                 and Structure: R Nechushtai, A Eden, Y Cohen and
J Klein 289-311
        16. Photosystem I Electron Transfer Reactions-Components and
Kinetics:R                 Malkin 313-332
        17. Ferredoxin and Ferredoxin-Dependent Enzymes: DB Knaff 333-361
        18. Structure Analysis of Single Crystals of Photosystem I by X-ray,
EPR                 and ENDOR: A Short Status Report: HT Witt 363-375
PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: COMPONENTS OF INTERSYSTEM ELECTRON TRANSFER
        19. The Cytochrome b6f Complex-Composition, Structure and Function:
G                 Hauska, M Schuetz and M Buettner 377-398
        20. Basic Aspects of Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions with
Applications to Photosynthesis: LI Krishtalik and WA
Cramer399-411
        21. Plastocyanin: Structure, Location, Diffusion and Electron
Transfer                 Mechanisms: EL Gross 413-429
        22. Some Consequences of the High Resolution X-Ray Structure
Analysis of                 Cytochrome f: SE Martinez, D Huang, JL Smith and
WA Cramer                                                 431-437
THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: COUPLING FACTOR
        23. An Overview of the Function, Composition and Structure of the
Chloroplast ATP Synthase: RE McCarty 439-451
        24. The Relationship Between the Structure and Catalytic Mechanism
of                 the Chloroplast ATP Synthase: ML Richter and DA Mills
453-468
        25. The Regulation of Chloroplast ATP Synthase, CFo-CF1: JD Mills
469-485
        26. The Structure of the CF1 Part of the ATP-Synthase Complex from
Chloroplasts: EJ Boekema and U Luecken 487-492

THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEXES
        27. Light-harvesting Complexes of Plants and Algae: Introduction,
Survey                 and Nomenclature: DJ Simpson and J Knoetzel 493-506
        28. The Light-harvesting Chlorophyll a/b-Binding Polypeptides and
Their                 Genes in Angiosperm and Gymnosperm Species: E
Pichersky and S                 Jansson 507-521
        29. Excitation Energy Transfer: functional and Dynamic Aspects of
Lhc                 (cab) Proteins: A Melis 523-538
        30. Carotenoids: Localization and Function: HY Yamamoto and R
Bassi 539-563
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY/GENETICS OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: THE CHLOROPLAST
GENOME
        31. Chloroplast Gene Expression : Regulation at Multiple Levels: MK
Roell and W Gruissem 565-587
        32. Chloroplast Transformation: Current Results and Future
Prospects: JM                 Erickson 589-619
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY/GENETICS OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS: THE NUCLEAR GENOME
        33. Regulation of Expression of Nuclear genes Encoding Polypeptides
Required for the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis: JC Gray 621-641
        34. The Evolution of Plastids and the Photosynthetic Apparatus: M
Reith
                                643-657
INDEX: 659-682

BRIEF INFORMATION ON EARLIER VOLUMES IN THE SERIES:

Vol.1: DA Bryant (Ed.) The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria, 1994: ISBN:
                        0-7923-3273-3 (paperback), also under hard-cover
Vol. 2: RE Blankenship,MT Madigan and C Bauer (Eds.) Anoxygenic
Photosynthetic         Bacteria, 1995: ISBN: 0-7923-3682-8 (paperback), also
under hard-cover
Vol. 3 : J Amesz and AJ Hoff (Eds.) Biophysical Techniques in
Photosynthesis,         1996: ISBN: 0-7923-3642-9 (hardcover)