Reprint
Plant Mitochondria
Edited by
February 2019
400 pages
- ISBN978-3-03897-550-2 (Paperback)
- ISBN978-3-03897-551-9 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Plant Mitochondria that was published in
Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Medicine & Pharmacology
Summary
The primary function of mitochondria is respiration, where the catabolism of substrates is coupled to ATP synthesis via oxidative phosphorylation. In plants, mitochondrial composition is relatively complex and flexible and has specific pathways to support photosynthetic processes in illuminated leaves. Plant mitochondria also play important roles in a variety of cellular processes associated with carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur metabolism. Research on plant mitochondria has rapidly developed in the last few decades with the availability of the genome sequences for a wide range of model and crop plants. Recent prominent themes in plant mitochondrial research include linking mitochondrial composition to environmental stress responses, and how this oxidative stress impacts on the plant mitochondrial function. Similarly, interest in the signaling capacity of mitochondria, the role of reactive oxygen species, and retrograde and anterograde signaling has revealed the transcriptional changes of stress responsive genes as a framework to define specific signals emanating to and from the mitochondrion. There has also been considerable interest in the unique RNA metabolic processes in plant mitochondria, including RNA transcription, RNA editing, the splicing of group I and group II introns, and RNA degradation and translation. Despite their identification more than 100 years ago, plant mitochondria remain a significant area of research in the plant sciences. This Special Issue, “Plant Mitochondria”, will cover a selection of recent research topics and timely review articles in the field of plant mitochondrial research.
Format
- Paperback
License
© 2019 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
mitochondrial fission; dynamin; plant mitochondria; mitochondrial division; cytoplasmic male sterility; non-coding RNA; global transcriptome; gene expression; pollen development; group II introns; splicing; maturases; RNA helicases; mitochondria; Arabidopsis; angiosperms; AAA protease; ATP-dependent proteolysis; mitochondria; inner mitochondrial membrane proteostasis; carbonylated proteins; mitoribosomes; mitochondrial ribosomal proteins (mitoRPs); arabidopsis; ribosomal filter hypothesis; plant development; mutants; mitochondrion; intergenomic gene transfer; nucleus; chloroplast; genome evolution; vegetative propagation; olive; adventitious rooting; auxins; IBA; plant mitochondria; alternative oxidase; alternative polyadenylation; transposable elements; gene expression; plant mitochondria; membrane insertion; Oxa; twin-arginine translocation; mETC; OXPHOS; COX; plant growth; biogenesis; atp9; cytoplasmic male sterility; CMS PET1; CMS PET2; Helianthus annuus; plant mitochondria; recombination; RNA-editing; respiration; Arabidopsis; cell divisions; mitochondria; oxidative stress; root apical meristem; shoot apical meristem; cold stress; heat stress; stress recovery; mitochondria; proteomics; respiration; Brassica; angiosperms; alternative oxidase; NADH dehydrogenase; rice; barley; oxidative stress; nitric oxide; ROS; mitochondria; proteins; alternative pathway; antioxidant enzymes; dehydrins; 2D PAGE; drought; mitochondrial biogenesis; mitochondrial proteome; plant transcriptome; ammonium toxicity; external type II NADPH dehydrogenase; glutathione metabolism; reactive oxygen species; redox homeostasis; late embryogenesis abundant protein; mitochondrion; mitochondrial import; gene duplication; paralog; cell wall synthesis; complex I defect; frostbite1; mitochondrial mutant; NDUFS4; necrosis; sugar catabolism; sugar signaling; programmed cell death; reactive oxygen species; Arabidopsis; mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF); salt stress; abiotic stresses; abscisic acid (ABA); organellar gene expression (OGE); n/a