Plants, higher Lipid metabolism

Kuiper, P.J.C. (1985). Environmental changes and lipid metabolism of higher plants. Physiologia Plantarum, 64, 118-22. 

Galliard, T. (1968). Aspeets of lipid metabolism in higher plants-I. Identification and quantitative determination of the lipids in potato tubers. Phytochemistry, 7, 1907-1914. 

FIGURE 21-8 Subcellular localization of lipid metabolism. Yeast and vertebrate cells differ from higher plant cells in the compartmentation of lipid metabolism. Fatty acid synthesis takes place in the compart-... 

The higher plant cell contains numerous distinct organelles or membra-nes, but only some of these have been properly purified and characterized. Determination of the jji vivo glycerollpld composition of these plant cell organelles or membranes, and their role In lipid metabolism Is not simple. In contrast to what Is often believed. 

References. 1. B. Liedvogel, Acetyl coenzyme A and isopentenylpyro-phosphate as lipid precursors in plant cells - biosynthesis and compartmen-tation, J. Plant Physiol. 214 211 (1986). 2. P.K. Stumpf, Fatty acid biosynthesis in higher plants, "Fatty Acid Metabolism and Its Regulation",... 

Changes in major environmental conditions such as light and temperature are known to cause changes in lipid composition and metabolism in higher plants and algae . Here we describe time-course and pulse-chase experiments on the effects of these factors on lipid metabolism in two multicellular marine red algae, Chondrus crlspus and Polyslphonla lanosa. 

Our results lead us to suggest a possible model for the regulation of plant lipid metabolism In higher plants (Figure 2). 

Kuiper PJC. Environmental changes and lipid metabolism of higher plants. 

Kuiper P. J.C. Environmental changes and lipid metabolism in higher plants. Physiol. Plant., 1985. 64,118-122. 

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