Table of Contents1. Plant and Cell Architecture2. Water and Plant Cells3. Water Balance of Plants4. Mineral Nutrition5. Assimilation of Inorganic Nutrients6. Solute Transport7. Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions8. Photosynthesis: The Carbon Reactions9. Photosynthesis: Physiological and Ecological Considerations10. Translocation in the Phloem11. Respiration and Lipid Metabolism12. Signals and Signal Transduction13. Signals from Sunlight14. Seed Dormancy, Germination, and Seedling Establishment15. Vegetative Growth and Senescence16. Flowering and Double Pollination17. Seed and Fruit Development18. Biotic Interactions19. Abiotic StressAppendix 1 Plant Breeding and Genome EngineeringGlossaryIllustration CreditsIndex

Lincoln Taiz is Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971. Dr. Taiz's main research focus has been on the structure, function, and evolution of vacuolar H+-ATPases. He has also worked on gibberellins, cell wall mechanical properties, metal tolerance, auxin transport, and stomatal opening.Ian Max Møller is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry from Imperial College, London, UK. He has worked at Lund University, Sweden and, more recently, at Risø National Laboratory and the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Møller has investigated plant respiration throughout his career. His current interests include turnover of reactive oxygen species and the role of protein oxidation in plant cells.Angus Murphy has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland since 2012. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1996 and moved to Purdue University as an assistant professor in 2001. Dr. Murphy studies ATP-Binding Cassette transporters, the regulation of auxin transport, and the mechanisms by which transport proteins are regulated in plastic plant growth.Wendy A. Peer is Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Chemical Ecology in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Wendy Peer's research focuses on developmental, biotic, and abiotic interactions that affect seedling establishment and on identifying novel applications of microbial pairing with plant-based foods to enhance food quality and nutrition.

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