Integration of Fhotosynthetic Characteristics during Leaf Development

Abstract

The formation of leaf structure, the development of the chloroplast as a basic unit of photosynthesis, the synthesis of pigment complexes and the components of the electron transport chain in the thylakoid as the place of the photochemical reactions of photosynthesis have been touched on or thoroughly analysed by many authors. Unfortunately, the major part of the existing literature contains the determination of usually only one or two characteristics which belong to the complex mosaic called “the photosynthetie apparatus”. These findings have already been described in the previous Chapters. The papers with a more synthetic aspect are as rare as those that thoroughly analyse the whole leaf life span or the complete leaf insertion gradient.