Plant Cell Biology
From Astronomy to Zoology
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Description
Key Features
- Includes chapter on using mutants and genetic approaches to plant cell biology research and a chapter on -omic technologies
- Explains the physiological underpinnings of biological processes to bring original insights relating to plants
- Includes examples throughout from physics, chemistry, geology, and biology to bring understanding on plant cell development, growth, chemistry and diseases
- Provides the essential tools for students to be able to evaluate and assess the mechanisms involved in cell growth, chromosome motion, membrane trafficking and energy exchange
Readership
Plant biologists; students and professors of plant biology; researchers with a background in plant anatomy, plant physiology, plant growth and development, plant taxonomy, plant biochemistry, and plant molecular biology needing a reference in plant cell biology
Table of Contents
1. On the Nature of Cells
2. The Plasma Membrane
3. Plasmodesmata
4. The Endoplasmic Reticulum
5. Peroxisomes
6. The Golgi Apparatus
7. Vacuoles
8. Movement within the Endomembrane System
9. Cytoplasmic Structure
10. Actin and Microfilament-mediated Processes
11. Tubulin and Microtubule-mediated Processes
12. Cell Signaling
13. Chloroplasts
14. Mitochondria
15. Origin of Organelles
16. The Nucleus
17. Ribosomes and Proteins
18. The Origin of Life
19. Cell Division
20. The Extracellular Matrix
21. ToolkitsAppendix
1. SI Units, Constants, Variables, and Geometric Formulae
2. A Cell Biologist’s View of Non-Newtonian
3. Calculation of the Total Transverse Force and Its Relation to Stress
4. Laboratory Exercises
Product details
- No. of pages: 740
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: November 10, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128143728
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128143711