Plant Physiology and Development (7TH EDITION)

Plant Physiology and Development incorporates the latest advances in plant biology, making it the most authoritative and widely used upper-division plant biology textbook. Up-to-date, comprehensive, and meticulously illustrated, the seventh edition features improved integration of developmental material throughout, providing the best educational foundation possible for the next generation of plant biologists.

This updated edition includes current information to improve understanding while maintaining the core structure of the book. Figures have been revised and simplified wherever possible. To eliminate redundancy, stomatal function (Chapter 10 in the previous edition) has been reassigned to other chapters. In addition, a series of feature boxes related to climate change are also included in this edition.

An enhanced e-Book with embedded self-assessment, Web Topics and Web Essays, and Study Questions is available with this edition.

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. Dr. Taiz's main research focus has been on the structure, function, and evolution of vacuolar H+-A TPases. He has also worked on gibberellins, cell wall mechanical properties, metal transport, auxin transport, and stomata] opening.

Ian Max Møller is Associate Professor in the Department 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 Riso National Laboratory and the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Moller has investigated plant respiration throughout his career. His current interests include turnover ofreactive oxygen species and the role of protein oxidation in plant cells.

Angus Murphy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996. Dr. Murphy studies ATP-binding cassette transporters, auxin transport proteins, and the role of auxin transport in programmed and plastic growth.

Eduardo Zieger is a Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Plant Genetics at the University of California at Davis. His research interests include stomatal function, the sensory transduction of blue-light responses, and the study of stomatal acclimations associated with increases in crop yields.

I. Structure and Information Systems of Plant Cells
1. Plant and Cell Architecture
2. Cell Walls: Structure, Formation, and Expansion
3. Genome Structure and Gene Expression
4. Signals and Signal Transduction
II. Transport and Translocation of Water and Solutes
5. Water and Plant Cells
6. Water Balance of Plants
7. Mineral Nutrition
8. Solute Transport
III. Biochemistry and Metabolism
9. Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions
10. Photosynthesis: The Carbon Reactions
11. Photosynthesis: Physiological and Ecological Considerations
12. Translocation in the Phloem
13. Respiration and Lipid Metabolism
14. Assimilation of Inorganic Nutrients
15. Abiotic Stress
IV. Growth and Development
16. Signals from Sunlight
17. Germination and Establishment
18. Vegetative Growth on the Primary Axis
19. Secondary Vegetative Growth
20. Control of Flowering and Floral Development
21. Gametophyte Development, Pollination, and Fruit Development
22. Embryogenesis: The Origin of Plant Architecture
23. Plant Senescence and Cell Death
24. Biotic Interactions