Intro
Preface: Second Edition
Preface: First Edition
Contents
About the Authors
Part I
1: Concepts of Plant Water Relations
Box 1.1 How Do Plants Passively Harness Energy to Pump Water from Roots to the Canopies? A Global Scenario
1.1 Water Potential and Its Components
1.1.1 Solute Potential
Box 1.2 Methods to Measure Osmotic Potential
1.1.2 Pressure Potential
1.1.3 Gravitational Potential
1.1.4 Matric Potential
Box 1.3 Imbibition
1.1.5 Relationship Between Different Components of Water Potential
1.2 Intercellular Transport of Water

1.2.1 Diffusion
1.2.2 Mass Flow
1.2.3 Osmosis
Box 1.4 Significance of Osmosis
Box 1.5 Reverse Osmosis
1.3 Short Distance Transport
1.3.1 Water Absorption by Roots
1.4 Long Distance Transport
1.4.1 Mechanism/s of Transport Across Xylem
1.5 Transpiration
Box 1.6 Transpiration Ratio
1.5.1 Factors Affecting the Rate of Transpiration
1.5.2 Ecological Adaptations to Reduce Transpiration
1.5.3 Antitranspirants
1.5.4 Stomatal Movement
Box 1.7 Primary Sensors of CO2/Bicarbonate in Stomata are Two Protein Kinases
1.6 Guttation
1.7 Summary

Further Reading
2: Essential and Functional Mineral Elements
2.1 Essential Elements
2.2 Beneficial or Functional Elements
2.3 Macro- and Microelements
2.4 Microelements or Micronutrients/Trace Elements
2.5 Toxicity Due to Mineral Nutrients
2.6 Mineral Deficiency Symptoms
2.7 Acquisition and Metabolic/Developmental Roles of Mineral Elements
2.7.1 Macronutrients
2.7.2 Micronutrients
2.8 Summary
Further Reading
3: Mechanisms of Water and Solute Transport
3.1 Soil and Plant Water Relationships
3.2 Water and Ion Uptake From Soil Into Roots

3.3 Symplastic Transport Across Plasmodesmata
Box 3.1 Do Bacteria and Animal Cells Have Plasmodesmata-Like Intracellular Channels?
3.4 Diffusion Versus Bulk Transport of Water and Solutes
Box 3.2 Diffusion Is a Spontaneous Process Which Obeys Fickś Law
Box 3.3 Narnst Equation Predicts Internal and External Ion Concentrations at a Given Membrane Potential
3.5 Structural Features of Xylem Elements Which Facilitate Water and Solute Transport
3.6 Membrane Transport System
3.7 Uniporters and Co-transporters
3.8 Ion Channels

Box 3.4 Patch Clamp Technique to Measure Ion Channel Activity
3.8.1 Potassium Channels
3.8.2 Calcium Channels
3.8.3 Anion Channels
3.8.4 Aquaporins
3.9 Pumps
3.9.1 P-Type ATPases
Box 3.5 Electrophysiological Processes in Plant Cells
3.9.2 Endomembrane-Associated Ca2+ Pump
3.9.3 F-Type ATPases
3.9.4 V-Type ATPases
3.9.5 H+-Pyrophosphatase (PPase)
3.9.6 ABC-Type Pumps
3.10 Summary
Further Reading
Part II
4: Concepts in Metabolism
Box 4.1 Metabolic Redundancy
Box 4.2 C1 Metabolism
4.1 Basic Energetic Principles Governing Metabolism