Plant Cells and their Organelles (eBook)

About the Editors William V. Dashek, Emeritus Professor, Mary Baldwin College, USA Dr. Dashek is the recipient of BS, MS and Ph.D. degree from Marquette University where he was a National Institute of Health pre-doctoral trainee. He was a post-doctorate fellow at the Michigan State University Plant research Laboratory. Subsequently, he began a lengthy Academic teaching and research career. Currently, Dashek is retired writing advanced textbooks. Gurbachan S. Miglani, Visiting Professor, School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, India Dr. Miglani obtained B.Sc. (Agri. & A.H.) and M.Sc. (Genetics) from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, Punjab, India and Ph.D. from Howard University, Washington, D.C. During his 35-year teaching stint at PAU he taught general and specialized courses in genetics. Even after retirement Miglani is still teaching molecular genetics and biotechnology at PAU. In addition to research and review papers, popular science articles, laboratory manuals he has published a dozen books and presently he is writing his next book.

List of Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Cells and Their Organelles

Chapter 2 Isolation and Characterization of Subcellular Organelles from Plant Cells

Chapter 3 Endoplasmic Reticulum

Chapter 4 The Golgi Apparatus

Chapter 5 Microbodies
Dr. Rob Donaldson

Chapter 6 Microtubules, Intermediate Filaments and Actin Filaments

Chapter 7 The Mitochondrion

Chapter 8 Nucleus

Chapter 9 Plant Cell Walls

Chapter 10 Photosynthesis

Chapter 11 Plastid Genomics

Chapter 12 Vacuoles and Protein Bodies

Chapter 13 Systems Biology in Plant Cells and their Organelles

Index