The book presents and discusses recent findings on protein synthesis in chloroplasts, the photosynthetic organelles.

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Translational Apparatus of Photosynthetic Organelles held in Grenoble, France, July 3-6, 1990

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Plastid rRNAs and rRNAs: Structure, Organization and Expression of their Genes.- 1 - Structure and Expression of rRNA Genes.- 2 - Ribosomal RNA Genes and Pseudogenes of the Bi-Molecular Plastid Genome of the Brown Alga Pylaiella littoralis.- 3 - The Solution Structure of Spinach Chloroplast and of Xenopus laevis Oocyte 5S rRNAs.- 4 - Chloroplast tRNAs and tRNA Genes: Structure and Function.- Plastid Ribosomal Proteins and their Genes in Higher Plants.- A. Chloroplast Encoded Genes.- Chapters 5 - Chloroplast Genes Coding for Ribosomal Proteins in Land Plants.- 6 - The Evolution of Genes and Pseudogenes for Some Chloroplast Ribosomal Proteins. Transposition and Recombination Lead to Different Fates in Different Genomes.- 7 - Expression of Nuclear and Chloroplast Genes Coding for Tobacco Chloroplast Ribosomal Proteins.- B. Nuclear Encoded Genes.- 8 - Nuclear-Coded Chloroplast r-Proteins, Precursor cDNA Clones and Transit Sequences.- 9 - Comparative Analysis of Four Different cDNA Clones Encoding Chloroplast Ribosomal Proteins.- 10 - Two Gene Families Encoding Cytoplasmic Ribosomal Proteins in Barley.- Plastid Ribosomes and Factors of Algae and of Cyanelle.- 11 - Molecular Genetics of Chloroplast Ribosomes in Chlamydomonas.- 12 - Chloroplast Ribosomal Protein Operons of Euglena gracilis.- 13 - rps10 and 6 Other Ribosomal Protein Genes from the S10/spc- Operon Not Encountered on Higher Plant Plastid DNA are Located on the Cyanelle Genome of Cyanophora paradoxa.- Functional aspects.- 14 - Interaction of Streptomycin with 16S rRNA of Chloroplasts and E. coli.- 15 - The Structure of the Antibiotic Binding Sites in Bacterial Ribosomes.- 16 - Recent Progress on Understanding the Initiation of Translation in the Chloroplasts of Euglena gracilis.- Physiological Aspects.- 17 - The Effects of Chlorophyll Photooxidation on Nuclear-Encoded Plastid Ribosomal Protein mRNAs in Norflurazon-Treated Pea Seedlings.- 18 - Heat-Induced Ribosome-Deficiency of Plastids. Mechanism and Applications.- 19 - Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Chloroplasts of Chlamydomonas reinhardii.- List of Participants to the NATO Workshop and of Contributors to this Volume.