PART I. ELEMENTS
1. Introduction and History
2. The Media of Plant Nutrition
3. Inorganic Components of Plants
PART II. TRANSPORT
4. Nutrient Absorption by Plants
5. Upward Movement of Water and Nutrients
6. Downward Movement of Food and Nutrients
PART III. METABOLISM AND GROWTH
7. Nitrogen and Sulfur: A Tale of Two Nutrients
8. Mineral Metabolism
9. Nutrition and Growth
PART IV. HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
10. Physiological Genetics and Molecular Biology
11. Ecology and Environmental Stress
12. Big Picture: Past, Present, Future
Emanuel Epstein is Research Professor in the Department of Land,
Air and Water Resources-Soils and Biogeochemistry at the University
of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology
from the University of California at Berkeley. Among the awards and
honors Dr. Epstein has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship and two
Senior Fulbright Research Scholarships. He was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences and has served as
President of the Pacific Division of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. His research interests include: mineral
nutrition of plants; ion transport; salt relations of plants;
silicon in plant biology; and
genetic and ecological aspects of all these topics.
Arnold J. Bloom is Professor in the Department of Vegetable Crops
at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in
Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Widely published in
scientific journals, Dr. Bloom has been a principal contributor (on
mineral nutrition) to two editions of Plant Physiology (Lincoln
Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger). His research focus is environmental
stress physiology, with an emphasis on the interactions among
nutrient
acquisition and photosynthesis, temperature stress in crops, and
root perception of the rhizosphere.
"Every now and then an undergraduate textbook appears that is both
useful to its target audience and a pleasure for more experienced
readers. This current revision of Epstein's 1971 classic with the
same title is such a book. This new version maintains the first
edition's clear and engaging prose and adds Bloom's expertise in
plant physiology and biochemistry, as well as extremely elegant and
helpful graphics. When my colleagues tell me they are planning
to
write a textbook, I lend them Epstein and Bloom's volume to show
them how it should be done."--Manuel Lerdau, The Quarterly Review
of Biology
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