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Ions and Osmoregulation

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Genetic Engineering of Osmoregulation

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Various aspects of the involvement of ions in osmoregulation (turgor regulation, volume regulation) have been reviewed recently by Bisson and Gutknecht (1979), Cram (1976), Flowers et al. (1977), Hellebust (1976), Osmond (1979) and by Pitman and Cram (1977). These reviews show that, while we know something of the phenomena of ionic involvement in osmoregulation, little is known of the molecular mechanisms of ion transport, or of the regulation of this transport in response to (e. g.) turgor-related signals. We shall discuss the ways in which ions are involved in osmoregulation in the context of the evolution of phototrophic plants; discussion of the various strategies will, we hope, provide a background for consideration of the genetics of osmoregulation in a particular plant. Our discussion will necessarily deal not only with the constraints on the ionic composition of the cell and its various compartments, but with possible mechanisms of ion transport at the cell and the whole-plant level and the regulation of this transport.

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  1. Department of Environmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, A.N.U., Canberra City, A.C.T., 2601, Australia

    J. A. Raven, F. A. Smith & S. E. Smith

  2. Department of Botany, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia

    J. A. Raven, F. A. Smith & S. E. Smith

  3. Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia

    J. A. Raven, F. A. Smith & S. E. Smith

  4. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, DD14HN, UK

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Raven, J.A., Smith, F.A., Smith, S.E. (1980). Ions and Osmoregulation. In: Rains, D.W., Valentine, R.C., Hollaender, A. (eds) Genetic Engineering of Osmoregulation. Basic Life Sciences, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3725-6_9

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