- About the textbook
- Contents Page
- Chapter 1 - Light use and leaf gas exchange
- Chapter 2 - Carbon dioxide assimilation and respiration
- 2.1 - C3 photosynthesis
- Feature essay 2.1 - The discovery of C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2 - C4 and CAM photosynthesis
- 2.2.1 - Evolution of C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.2 - The CO2 concentrating mechanism in C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.3 - Energetics of C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.4 - The biochemical subtypes of C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.5 - Environmental physiology of C3 versus C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.6 - Single-cell C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.7 - C3-C4 photosynthesis
- 2.2.8 - Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
- 2.2.9 - Submerged aquatic macrophytes (SAM)
- 2.10 References for photosynthesis
- 2.3 - Photorespiration
- 2.4 - Respiration and energy generation
- 2.4.1 - Starch and sucrose degradation
- 2.4.2 - The glycolytic pathway
- 2.4.3 - The oxidative pentose phosphate pathway
- 2.4.4 - Mitochondria and organic acid oxidation (the TCA cycle)
- 2.4.5 - Electron transport chain
- 2.4.6 - ATP synthesis (oxidative phosphorylation)
- 2.4.7 - Alternative electron transport pathways
- 2.4.8 - Energetics of respiration
- 2.4.9 - Further Reading
- Chapter 3 - Water movement in plants
- Chapter 4 - Nutrient uptake from soils
- Chapter 5 - Phloem transport
- 5.1 - Distribution of photoassimilates within plants
- 5.2 - Phloem transport
- 5.3 - Phloem loading
- 5.4 - Phloem unloading and sink utilisation
- 5.4.1 - Cellular pathways of phloem unloading
- 5.4.2 - Mechanisms of phloem unloading
- 5.4.3 - Sugar metabolism and compartmentation in sinks
- 5.4.4 - Key transfer events in sugar metabolism and compartmentation
- 5.4.5 - Sink control of photoassimilate partitioning
- 5.4.6 - Follow the flow: unloading of water and its destination
- 5.5 - References
- Chapter 6 - Growth analysis: a quantitative approach
- Chapter 7 - Plant growth and development
- Chapter 11 - Fruit growth, ripening and post-harvest physiology
- 11.1 - Origin of fruit tissues and fruit set
- 11.2 - Dynamics of fruit growth
- 11.3 - Resources for fruit growth
- 11.4 - Carbon accumulation
- 11.5 - Fruit ripening
- Feature Essay - 11.1 A century of ethylene research
- 11.6 - Extending storage life
- 11.7 - Future technologies
- 11.8 - Concluding remarks
- 11.9 - Further reading and literature cited
- Chapter 12 - Sunlight and plant production
- 12.1 - Photosynthesis in sun and shade
- Feature essay 12.1 - Perspectives on photoprotection and photoinhibition
- 12.2 - Agricultural production and light
- 12.3 - Forest production and light
- Case study 12.1 - Pine forest production and light use efficiency
- 12.4 - Light and horticultural production
- 12.5 - Ultraviolet radiation
- 12.6 - Conclusion and references
- Chapter 14 - Temperature and acclimation
- 14.1 - Thermal environment and plant heat budgets
- 14.2 - Growth and development responses to temperature
- 14.3 - Responses of enzymes, photosynthesis and assimilate transport
- 14.4 - Chilling injury
- 14.5 - Plant responses to cold
- 14.5.1 - Cold sensing and signal transduction
- 14.5.2 - Changes in gene expression underpinning cold acclimation
- 14.5.3 - Cold-induced changes in membrane characteristics and metabolic profiles
- 14.5.4 - Cold responses of photosynthesis
- 14.5.5 - Increased respiratory capacity in cold acclimated plants
- 14.5.6 - Further Reading
- 14.6 - Frost and freezing injury
- 14.7 - High temperature stress
- 14.8 - Concluding remarks
- Chapter 18 - Waterlogging and submergence
- 18.1 - Soil aeration, redox chemistry, soil toxins and changes in nutrients
- 18.2 - Water chemistry of floods causing complete submergence
- 18.3 - Biochemical and metabolic adaptations
- 18.4 - Internal aeration - aerenchyma and morphological adaptations
- 18.5 - Complete submergence - escape or quiescence responses
- 18.6 - Recovery when waters recede
- 18.7 - References
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