Research Catalog

Title

Plant physiology [by] Meirion Thomas, S.L. Ranson [and] J.A. Richardson.

Author

Thomas, Meirion.

Publication

[London] Longman [1973]

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Additional Authors

• Richardson, J. A. (John Alan)
• Ranson, S. L.

Description

xv, 1062 pages illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Plant physiology
• Plant Physiological Phenomena
• Pflanzenphysiologie

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 973-1004.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Protoplasm. The living cell as whole -- The physico-chemical heterogeneity of protoplasm -- Protoplasm as a chemically active system -- Pt. 2. Enzymic partial reactions in metabolic processes. Enzymes functioning in teh mobilization of food reserves -- Glycolysis -- Enzymes and carriers concerned with oxidations and reductions -- Partial reactions and functions of the TCA (Krebs) cycle, and the glyoxylate cycle -- Oxidative phosphorylation -- The pentose phosphate pathway in carbohydrate catabolism -- The anabolic production of some accumulating organic compounds mainly non-nitrogenous -- The anabolic production of some accumulating nitrogenous organic compounds, and the assimilation of sulphate
• Pt. 3. The absorption, translocation, and elimination of water, solutes and gases. The vacuolated cell as an osmotic system -- The absorption of water and solutes from the soil by roots -- Transpiration -- The conduction of water -- The conduction of solutes -- The gaseous exchanges between plants and the outside air -- Pt. 4. Nutrition and metabolism. General survey of the problems of metabolism -- Metabolic studies on plant organs -- Photosynthesis -- Respiration in higher plants -- Studies on the Pasteur effect in higher plants -- Experimental methods of studying intracellular metabolic sequences -- Pt. 5. Growth and movement. Growth -- Plant growth substances -- The effect of light and temperature on development -- Plant movements -- Appendices. Notes on the chemistry of some metabolic products -- Sections on physical chemistry -- Some special chemical and physical techniques.

ISBN

• 0582460131
• 9780582460133

LCCN

74174968

OCLC

• ocm00826037
• 826037
• SCSB-294740

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library