Table of Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition
• • Preface to the First Edition
  • Part I: Water and Mineral Relation of Plants - Cell and Cell Organelles
  • Forms of Solutions
  • Behaviour of Cells Towards Water
  • Absorption and Translocation of Water
  • Loss of Water from Plants
  • Mineral Nutrition and Absorption
  • Translocation of Solutes
  • Photosynthesis Part II: Metabolism - Enzymes
  • Photosynthesis
  • Carbohydrate
  • Special Modes of Nutrition in Plants
  • Nitrogen Metabolism
  • Amino Acid Metabolism
  • Protein Metabolism
  • Nucleic Acid Metabolism
  • Lipid Metabolism
  • Respiration
  • Part III: Growth and Development Physiology – Growth Development and Organogenesis
  • Hormones/Growth Regulators
  • Physiology of Flowering
  • Senescence, Aging, Abscission and Polarity
  • Dormancy and Germination of Seeds
  • Movements in Plants
  • Stress Physiology
  • Tissue Culture
  • Secondary Plant Metabolites
  • Subject Index.

About the Author

R. K. Sinha.: Department of Botany, Patna Science College