From gov from uiuc.edu Thu Oct 11 23:25:20 2007 From: gov from uiuc.edu (Govindjee) Date: Fri Oct 12 10:43:08 2007 Subject: [Photosynthesis] Sad News: Elizabeth L. Gross passed away on June 27, 2007 Message-ID: <13562.70.225.165.243.1192163143.squirrel@www-s.life.uiuc.edu> Sad News: Elizabeth L. Gross passed away on June 27, 2007 Professor Elizabeth L. Gross, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University (OSU) , Columbus, Ohio, passed away on June 27, 2007. She was a pioneer in the area of Biophysics and Biochemistry of photosynthesis. In the recent past, she studied the ?Structure and Function of Plastocyanin, and Cytochrome f?, especially the interaction between these proteins and the electron transport process in photosynthesis, using both experimental and computational approaches. Elizabeth (friends called her Liz) was born in 1940. She obtained her BA (Biophysics), in 1961, from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and her PhD (Biophysics) from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1967, under the guidance of Lester Packer. Liz did her post-doc research with Tony San Pietro, at the Kettering Research Lab, from 1967-1968. From 1968, Liz has been on the faculty in Biochemistry at the Ohio State University; she retired in 2006 after ~39 years of service. She had advised 13 graduate and 6 postdoctoral students. She had also collaborated with Charlie Arntzen, Dick Dilley and Govindjee. Liz has published over 65 top research papers mostly in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics , Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, and Biophysical Journal, but also in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication, Biochemistry, Photochemistry and Photobiology, Photosynthesis Research, Plant Physiology and Nature, Chronologically, her former PhD students were: Dan D, Davis; Lawrence Prochaska; Joseph Laszlo; Kent O. Burkry; Rong Long Pan; Douglas G. Sanderson; George Anderson; Stewart Durell; Steven Molnar; Douglas C. Pearson, Jr., and Esmail J. Haddadian. Her postdoctoral associates, again, chronologically were: Masaki Takahashi; Peter Abdella; Ravindra Bhardwaj; Yiji Fan; Baishnab Tripathy; and James Draheim. A detailed obituary of Elizabeth L. Gross is currently being prepared by Richard Sayre, of OSU, in cooperation with the former students of Liz, for publication in ?Photosynthesis Research?. She is survived by her husband Bob and family members. Also see: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~biochem/faculty/Gross.html Collated by Govindjee (gov@uiuc.edu) -- Govindjee, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Plant Biology, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, 265 Morrill Hall,MC-116, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana,IL 61801-3707, USA Telephone: 217-337-0627 (home); fax: 217-244-7246 URL: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/govindjee Table of Content of Chapters in AIPH Vols 1-25: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/govindjee/Reference-Index.htm http://www.vlpbp.org/GovindjeeLTACHMTAWRD0326071.html ---------------------------------- From hazem from kalaji.pl Sun Oct 14 06:15:54 2007 From: hazem from kalaji.pl (Dr. Hazem M. Kalaji) Date: Sun Oct 14 16:03:47 2007 Subject: [Photosynthesis] Re: [Ecophysiology] C4 pathway plants References: <200710111245.DJZ06180@c2bthomr10.btconnect.com> Message-ID: <7a4fced5a15526c4907dc71f9fb110b5.qmail@home.pl> Dears Mark and Ellen, You can get the C4 pathway list of plants from Photosynthetica 1992, 26:323-331 and Photosynthetica 1978, 12:200-208 (attached file). To distinguish between C3 and C4 plants you have to provide either measurement of compensation point or do measurements of photosynthesis at 1% and 21% of O2 in sample air using any closed system for photosynthesis measurements (IRGA) like CIRAS-2 or TPS-2 from PP Systems Company (http://www.ppsystems.com). I hope that this will help. Sincerely, Dr. Hazem Kalaji Plant Ecophysiologist Department of Plant Physiology Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW Faculty of Agriculture and Biology Building No. 37 Room 0/112 Nowoursynowska Str. 159 02-776 Warsaw Poland Email: hazem@kalaji.pl www.kalaji.pl Phone +48 (22) 8439041 Ext. 39516 Fax +48 (22) 642 59 23 Mobile +48 608 07 99 98 (mobile) M Leivers napisa?(a): > Hi Ellen Raabe > > I am a plant breeder and interested in the C4 pathway list of plants. > > I notice your request for a list of C4 plants on the Bionet web site. Did > you ever get a reply or link to this list as I am also interested to > understand what plants make up this C4 pathway listing? > Looking forward to your reply > Thanks > > Mark Leivers > > Floranova Ltd. Registered office: Norwich Road, Foxley, Dereham, Norfolk. > NR20 4SS. > Registered in England, number 01370190. Telephone: +44 1362 686032. VAT > number GB 864 4238 11. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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