4th International Congress on Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM-2004), Tahoe City, USA, 29 July-2 August 2004.

摘要

These proceedings contain 9 papers on recent advances and future opportunities in crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM); carbon isotope composition and water use efficiency of plants with CAM; evidence supporting the classification of Welwitschia mirabilis as a CAM plant; isotopic distribution of CAM in orchids of Panama; functional leaf anatomy of plants with CAM; distinctive diel growth cycles in leaves and cladodes of CAM plants; intracellular transport and pathways of carbon flow in plants with CAM; transcriptional profiles of organellar metabolite transporters during induction of CAM in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum; and large gene family of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in the CAM plant Kalanchoe pinnata..