Table of Contents

Structure and Nomenclature of Inositol Phosphates, Phosphoinositides, and Glycosylphosphatidylinositols.- Inositol and Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharide Biogenesis.- Functional Genomics of Inositol Metabolism.- Genetics of Inositol Polyphosphates.- Inositol in Bacteria and Archaea.- Regulation of 1D-myo-Inositol-3-Phosphate Synthase in Yeast.- The Structure and Mechanism of myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Synthase.- Phosphoinositide Metabolism: Towards an Understanding of Subcellular Signaling.- Cracking the Green Paradigm: Functional Coding of Phosphoinositide Signals in Plant Stress Responses.- Inositols and Their Metabolites in Abiotic and Biotic Stress Responses.- Inositol Phosphates and Phosphoinositides in Health and Disease.- Mammalian Inositol 3-phosphate Synthase: Its Role in the Biosynthesis of Brain Inositol and its Clinical Use as a Psychoactive Agent.- Evolutionary Divergence of L-myo-Inositol 1-Phosphate Synthase: Significance of a “Core Catalytic Structure”.