Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology (Second Edition)

Hard Cover  1000 pages, Illustrated  ISBN 0824705467      £145.00

This totally revised and expanded reference provides comprehensive coverage of the latest discoveries in plant physiological stages and processes under both normal and stressful conditions, emphasizing environmental factors, climatic changes, developmental stages, and growth regulators as well as linking plant and crop physiology to the production of food, feed, and medicinal compounds.

Contains 80% new material, including four new sections on cellular and molecular aspects of plant and crop physiology, plant and crop physiological responses to heavy metal concentration and agrichemicals, computer modeling in plant physiology, and plant and crop physiology under controlled conditions and in space!

With contributions from over 70 international experts, the Second Edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology discusses:

• recent investigations on specific plant and crop physiological responses under normal as well as salt, drought, and environmentally stressful conditions
• novel computer simulation techniques for plant and crop allocation processes
  
• modern advances in plant genetics and plant growth hormones
  
• future prospects for plant and human life support on other planets
  
• and more!

Offering an encyclopedic list of nearly 7000 contemporary references, over 2000 more than the first edition, and over 300 useful tables, equations, drawings, photographs, and micrographs , the Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, Second Edition, is an up-to-date resource for plant and crop physiologists; plant, crop, soil, and environmental scientists; botanists; agronomists; agriculturists; horticulturists; biochemists; foresters; plant culturists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

Plants/Crops Growth Responses to Environmental Factors and Climactic Changes

Time, Plant Growth, Respiration, and Temperature
Role of Temperature in the Physiology of Crop Plants: Pre- and Postharvest
Crop Plant Responses to Rising CO2 and Climate Change

Physiology of Plant/Crop Growth and Developmental Stages

Germination and Emergence
Influence of Source Strength on Leaf Developmental Programming
Ecophysiological Aspects of the Vegetative Propagation of Saltbush (Atriplex spp.) and Mulberry (Morus spp.)
Fruit Development, Maturation, and Ripening
Dormancy: Manifestations and Causes
Senescence in Plants and Crops
Abscission

Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Plant/Crop Physiology

Cell Cycle Regulation in Plants
Chlorophyll Biosynthesis During Plant Greening
Structure and Function of Photosynthetic Membranes in Higher Plants
Bioenergetic Aspects of Photosynthetic Gas Exchange and Respiratory Processes in Algae and Plants
Diffusive Resistances to CO2 Entry in the Leaves and Their Limitations to Photosynthesis

Plant/Crop Physiology and Physiological Aspects of Plant/Crop Production Processes

Mineral Nutrient Transport in Plants
Sodium: A Functional Nutrient in Plants
Nitrogen Metabolism and Crop Productivity
Quantifying Immediate Carbon Export from Source Leaves
Production-Related Assimilate Transport and Partitioning
Phloem Transport of Solutes in Crop Plants
Carbohydrate Synthesis and Crop Metabolism
Production of Phytomedicinal Chemicals by Plants

Plant Growth Regulators: The Natural Hormones (Growth Promoters and Inhibitors) and Plant Genes

Plant Growth Hormones: Growth Promoters and Inhibitors
The Activation Sequence-1 Cognate Promoter Elements Play Critical Roles in the Activation of Defense-Related Genes in Higher Plants
Multilevel Regulation of Glutathione Homeostasis in Higher Plants
Genes Associated with Orchid Flower

Physiological Responses of Plants/Crops under Stressful (Salt, Drought, and Other Environmental Stresses) Conditions

Biology and Physiology of Saline Plants
Role of Physiology in Improving Crop Adaptation to Abiotic Stresses in the Tropics: The Case of Common Bean and Tropical Forages
Adaptive Components of Salt Tolerance
Growth and Physiological Adaptations of Grasses to Salinity Stress
Physiological Mechanisms of Nitrogen Absorption and Assimilation in Plants Under Stressful Conditions
Induction of Proteins in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Physiological Responses of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) to Salt Stress
Calcium as a Messenger in Stress Signal Transduction
Regulation of Gene Expression During Abiotic Stresses and the Role of the Plant Hormone Abscisic Acid

Physiological Responses of Plants/Crops to Heavy Metal Concentration and Agrichemicals

How Plants Adapt Their Physiology to an Excess of Metals
The Negative Actions of Toxic Divalent Cations on the Photosynthetic Apparatus
Physiological Mechanisms of Herbicide Actions

Physiological Relationships between Lower and Higher Plants

Parasitic Flowering Plants from Genus Orobanche: DNA Markers, Molecular Evolution, and Physiological Relations with the Host Plants

Physiology of Lower-Plants Genetics and Development

Developmental Genetics in Lower Plants

Physiology of Higher Plant/Crop Genetics and Development

Photosynthetic Efficiency and Crop Yield

Transpiration Efficiency: Avenues for Genetic Improvement
Physiological Mechanisms Relevant to Genetic Improvement of Salinity Tolerance in Crop Plants
Glycine Betaine Accumulation: Its Role in Stress Resistance in Crop Plants

Using Computer Modeling in Plant Physiology

Computer Simulation of Plant and Crop Allocation Processes

Plant/Crop Physiology under Controlled Conditions, in Space, and on Other Planets

Composite Lighting for Controlled-Environment Plant Factories
Plant Growth and Human Life Support for Space Travel

Index