Biosynthesis of Vitamins in Plants Part B

Fabrice Rébeillé is a research director at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Grenoble, France, in the laboratory of Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale. He graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Grenoble in 1978 and completed a PhD in 1983. He was recruited by the CEA in 1983. In 1984-1985 he joined as a post-doc fellow the Marshall D. Hatch laboratory at CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. From 1995 to 2000, he was Professor of biochemistry at the University of Grenoble. His domains of expertise are about plant cell metabolism, including respiration, photosynthesis and photorespiration, biosynthesis of vitamins and more recently lipid metabolism.

• Series PageContributors to Volume 59PrefaceVitamins: a plant affairContents of volumes 35-58Vitamin B6 in Plants: More Than Meets the EyeI. IntroductionII. Biological Functions and RequirementsIII. DistributionIV. Biosynthesis and Cellular Location of the PathwaysV. Regulation, Turnover and CatabolismVI. Impact of the Vitamin on Plant Physiology and DevelopmentVII. Comparison with Other Autotrophic Non-Plant OrganismsVIII. Engineering the Pathway for Nutritional EnhancementIX. ConclusionsBiotin (Vitamin B8) Synthesis in PlantsI. IntroductionII. The Biosynthetic PathwayIII. Protein BiotinylationIV. Concluding RemarksMetabolism of Folates in PlantsI. Folates StructureII. Biological Functions of Folates: C1-Metabolism and BeyondIII. Folate Synthesis, Turnover and Homeostasis in PlantsIV. Folate Synthesis in Other AutotrophsV. Physiology of Folate in Human Health and DiseaseVI. Folate Biofortification in PlantsVitamin C: The Metabolism and Functions of Ascorbic Acid in PlantsI. IntroductionII. Ascorbate Biosynthesis: The D-Mannose/L-Galactose (Man/L-Gal) PathwayIII. Are There Multiple Pathways for Ascorbate Biosynthesis?IV. The Control of Ascorbate Biosynthesis and Pathway EngineeringV. Ascorbate CatabolismVI. Ascorbate Transport and Subcellular CompartmentationVII. Ascorbate ConjugatesVIII. The Redox Reactions of AscorbateIX. The Functions of AscorbateX. ConclusionsVitamin EI. A Brief History of Vitamin E ResearchII. Structure and Chemistry of Tocochromanols and Vitamin EIII. Tocochromanol Distribution in Plant Tissues and FoodsIV. Vitamin E Requirement in Humans and Biological FunctionsV. The Tocochromanol Pathway in Photosynthetic OrganismsVI. Biochemical Genomics Enabled the Cloning of Tocochromanol Pathway EnzymesVII. Engineering Multiple Steps of the Pathway and Application to Agricultural CropsVIII. Potential for Breeding Plants with Improved Vitamin E ContentIX. Progress in Elucidating Tocochromanol Functions in Photosynthetic OrganismsVitamin K1 (Phylloquinone): Function, Enzymes and GenesI. IntroductionII. Structure and Chemistry of Vitamin KIII. Biochemical Roles of Vitamin KIV. Detection and Distribution of Phylloquinone in PlantsV. Phylloquinone Biosynthesis in PlantsVI. Evolution of Naphthoquinone Biosynthesis in Photosynthetic EukaryotesVII. Phylloquinone TurnoverVIII. Engineering of Phylloquinone in PlantsIX. Concluding RemarksAuthor IndexSubject IndexBiosynthesis of Vitamins in Plants Part BBiosynthesis of Vitamins in Plants Part BFabrice RébeilléRoland DouceISSN 0065-2296Volume 59 • Number Suppl C • 2011