BookSatish C Bhatla, Manju A. Lal.
Summary: This book focuses on the fundamentals of plant physiology for undergraduate and graduate students. It consists of 34 chapters divided into five major units. Unit I discusses the unique mechanisms of water and ion transport, while Unit II describes the various metabolic events essential for plant development that result from plants' ability to capture photons from sunlight, to convert inorganic forms of nutrition to organic forms and to synthesize high energy molecules, such as ATP. Light signal perception and transduction works in perfect coordination with a wide variety of plant growth regulators in regulating various plant developmental processes, and these aspects are explored in Unit III. Unit IV investigates plants' various structural and biochemical adaptive mechanisms to enable them to survive under a wide variety of abiotic stress conditions (salt, temperature, flooding, drought), pathogen and herbivore attack (biotic interactions). Lastly, Unit V addresses the large number of secondary metabolites produced by plants that are medicinally important for mankind and their applications in biotechnology and agriculture. Each topic is supported by illustrations, tables and information boxes, and a glossary of important terms in plant physiology is provided at the end.
Contents:
Part I TRANSPORT OF WATER AND NUTRIENTS
Chapter 1. Plant water relations
Chapter 2. Mineral nutrition
Chapter 3. Water and soluble transport
Part II METABOLISM
Chapter 4. Concepts in metabolism
Chapter 5. Photosynthesis
Chapter 6. Photosynthate translocation
Chapter 7. Respiration
Chapter 8. ATP synthesis
Chapter 9. Metabolism of storage carbohydrates
Chapter 10. Lipid metabolism
Chapter 11. Nitrogen metabolism
Chapter 12. Sulphur, phosphorus and iron metabolism
Part III DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 13. Light perception and transduction
Chapter 14. Plant growth regulators
Chapter 15. Auxins
Chapter 16. Cytokinins
Chapter 17. Gibberellins
Chapter 18. Abscisic acid
Chapter 19. Ethylene
Chapter 20. Brassinosteroids
Chapter 21. Jasmonic acid
Chapter 22. Recently discovered plant growth regulators
Chapter 23. Mechanisms of signal reception and transduction
Chapter 24. Embryogenesis, vegetative growth and organogenesis
Chapter 25. Physiology of flowering
Chapter 26. Pollination, embryogenesis and seed development
Chapter 27. Fruit development and ripening
Chapter 28. Seed dormancy and germination
Chapter 29. Plant movements
Chapter 30. Senescence and programmed cell death
Part IV STRESS PHYSIOLOGY
Chapter 31. Abiotic stress
Chapter 32. Biotic interactions
Part V APPLIED PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Chapter 33. Secondary metabolites
Chapter 34. Plant physiology in agriculture and biotechnology
Glossary.