Plant Molecular Biology

The present volume contains the invited lectures and abstracts of the posters presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Molecular Biology held at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, June 10 to 19. The Directors of the Advanced Study Institute would like to express their most sincere gratitude for financial support to the following: NATO Danish Natural Science Research Council Danish Agricultural and Veterinary Science Research Council Carlsbergs Mindelegat for Brygger J. C. Jacobsen Carlsberg and Tuborg Breweries International Society for Plant Molecular Biology Bayer AG, Leverkusen Hoechst AG, Frankfurt-Main Biotechnology, Ciba-Geigy, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Cal gene , Davis, California Danisco Biotechnology, Copenhagen E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. , Wilmington, Delaware Plant Science Foundation Holmegaards Glasvrerker, Fensmark Imperial Chemical Industries, Bracknell Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht Monsanto & Co. , St. Louis, Missouri Novo, Copenhagen Rhone-Poulenc Agrochimie, Lyon Schering AG, Berlin Shell Research Ltd. , London Unilever PLC, London Zoe con Research Institute, Sandoz, Palo Alto, California Without this generous support it would not have been possible to bring together so many outstanding plant molecular biologists for exchange of experience and knowledge and for animated as well as fruitful discussions on future experiments which can advance the understanding of plant biology. Also discussed were the possibilities to apply this knowledge to crop improvement. Diter von Wettstein Nam-Hai Chua v CONTENTS RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE Three-dimensional structure of ribulose-l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/ oxygenase from Rhodospir111um rubrum . G. Schneider, Y. Lindqvist, C. -I. Branden and G.