Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology - Park S. Nobel

Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology

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Buch | Softcover
474 Seiten
1999 | 2nd edition
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-520025-7 (ISBN)
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The functioning of all living systems obeys the laws of physics in fundamental ways. This is true for all physiological processes that occur inside cells, tissues, organs, and organisms. This book describes, among other topics, the forms in which energy and matter enter and leave a plant.
The functioning of all living systems obeys the laws of physics in fundamental ways. This is true for all physiological processes that occur inside cells, tissues, organs, and organisms. The new edition of Park Nobel's classic text has been revised in an unprecedented fashion, while still remaining user-friendly and clearly presented. Certain to maintain its leading role in teaching general and comparative physiological principles, Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology now establishes a new standard of excellence in teaching advanced physiology.
The book covers water relations and ion transport for plant cells, including diffusion, chemical potential gradients, and solute movement in and out of plant cells. It also presents the interconnection of various energy forms, such as light, chlorophyll and accessory photosynthesis pigments, and ATP and NADPH. Additionally, the book describes the forms in which energy and matter enter and leave a plant, for example: energy budget analysis, water vapor and carbon dioxide, and water movement from soil to plant to atmosphere.

Park S. Nobel is the Distinguished Professor of Biology Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His early career focused on cell physiology, especially chloroplasts, and his first book was entitled Plant Cell Physiology: A Physicochemical Approach (W.H. Freeman, 1970). He eventually shifted toward plant physiological ecology and has written six books on the subject that have been cited extensively. Besides writing these texts, he has published six books on agaves and cacti. He has also authored nearly 400 scientific research articles and reviews. Dr. Nobel has developed original equations for the air boundary layers surrounding cylinders and spheres and has championed the importance of the mesophyll surface area per unit leaf area, Ames/A. Other research topics have included the importance of shallow root distribution for taking advantage of light desert rainfalls and the influences of an air gap developing around roots during drought on root-soil water movement.

Cells and Diffusion.
Water.
Solutes.
Light.
Photochemistry of Photosynthesis.
Bioenergetics.
Temperature--Energy Budgets.
Leaves and Fluxes.
Plants and Fluxes.
Appendices.
Solutions to Problems.
Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.4.1999
Verlagsort San Diego
Sprache englisch
Maße 175 x 254 mm
Gewicht 860 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Botanik
ISBN-10 0-12-520025-0 / 0125200250
ISBN-13 978-0-12-520025-7 / 9780125200257
Zustand Neuware
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