Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology - Softcover

Nobel, Park S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0125200218 ISBN 13: 9780125200219

Publisher: Academic Press, 1991

Synopsis

This text is the successor volume to Biophysical Plant Physiology and Ecology (W.H. Freeman, 1983). The content has been extensively updated based on the growing quantity and quality of plant research, including cell growth and water relations, membrane channels, mechanisms of active transport, and the bioenergetics of chloroplasts and mitochondria. One-third of the figures are new or modified, over 190 new references are incorporated, the appendixes on constants and conversion factors have doubled the number of entries, and the solutions to problems are given for the first time. Many other changes have emanated from the best laboratory for any book, the classroom.

· Covers water relations and ion transport for plant cells; diffusion, chemical potential gradients, solute movement in and out of plant cells
· Covers interconnection of various energy forms; light, chlorophyll and accessory photosynthesis pigments, ATP and NADPH
· Covers forms in which energy and matter enter and leave a plant; energy budget analysis, water vapor and carbon dioxide, water movement from soil to plant to atmosphere

About this title

Book Description:

Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology, 3rd edition, establishes a new standard of excellence in the teaching and quantitative understanding of plant physiology.

From the Publisher:

Praise for the First Edition "The best available source for the student or researcher to learn or to review the physical aspects of the majority of plant-physiological processes." (Quarterly Review of Biology)

"...The book contains an enormous amount of information, carefully presented and well discussed...Should be available in every library." (Annals of Botany)

"...The book deserves to be widely read and will be of great use for a substantial time." (Plant, Cell and Environment)

"A 'must' for any advanced course on plant physiological ecology and environmental physiology." (J. Rozema, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

"...The style and content make this book unique among textbooks in plant physiology..." (Plant Science Bulletin)

"...its success is attested to by the fact that there really is little in the way of direct competition for the topics it covers... (Ecology)

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0125200218
• ISBN 13: 9780125200219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 635