Solute Transport in Plants

'Plant physiologists, biochemists, plant biologists and advanced undergraduates and immediate postgraduates studying plant breeding and agriculture, will find this text to be a valuable source of information.' Biological Abstracts 'This is a well-written and nicely produced book... University students will find the book provides good and readable accounts of the topics. It will be useful also to more experienced readers who want to learn about the modern techniques used to study transport systems and the findings obtained.' Annals of Botany Company 'This is a really comprehensive book and I was surprised that so much information could be presented in such a slim volume. The text is up to date, easily readable, and generously supplemented with diagrams, graphs and tables. Congratulations to the authors for their comparisons with animal systems and use of analogies... I have no hesitation in recommending this book for undergraduates and immediate postgraduates.' Journal of Biological Education 'This is a most welcome and useful book. It condenses an enormous amount of information into a handy space. It is easy to read as a continuous argument, and easy to use as a source of references on particular topics... It will guide the beginning graduate student into the literatures of unfamiliar fields, and there will be few professional transport physiologists who can read it without gaining new insights... The book is sensibly constructed... The illustrations are good, especially some of the original drawings, which would make useful slides for teaching. Overall, this is a book that deserves a place in the library of any professional botanist, or of any student who seriously aspires to become one...' The Quarterly Review of Biology '...a clear introduction to solute transport processes in plants... well-illustrated and written for advanced undergraduates and immediate postgraduates in the fields of plant physiology, plant breeding and agriculture and for those starting their work at this research field.' Journal of Plant Physiology

• 1 Plants and Their Solutes.- 1.1 Solutes in cells.- 1.2 Localisation of solutes within cells.- 1.3 Solute concentrations and ion activities.- 1.4 Conclusions.- 1.5 Addendum.- 2 Membranes and the Study of Transport.- 2.1 Membrane structure.- 2.2 Membranes of plant cells.- 2.3 Obtaining membranes for transport studies.- 2.4 Driving forces for movement.- 2.5 Methods of studying transport through membranes.- 2.6 Properties of plant membranes.- 2.7 Water and osmosis.- 2.8 Addenda.- 3 Ion Transport Across the Plasma Membrane and Tonoplast.- 3.1 Active transport.- 3.2 Proton pumps.- 3.3 Redox systems.- 3.4 The transport of ions other than protons.- 3.5 Guard cells.- 3.6 CAM plants.- 3.7 Bacterial and yeast systems.- 4 Intra- And Intercellular Transport.- 4.1 Mitochondria.- 4.2 Chloroplasts.- 4.3 Cytoplasm.- 4.4 Intercellular transport.- 4.5 Glands.- 5 Ion Uptake by Plant Roots.- 5.1 Movement of nutrients towards the root plasma membrane surface.- 5.2 Ion uptake and the structure of the roots.- 5.3 Phenomenology of ion uptake by roots.- 5.4 Movement across the root.- 5.5 Addendum.- 6 Transport from Root to Shoot.- 6.1 Structure and function of the xylem.- 6.2 Salinity as a model system.- 7 Transport in the Phloem.- 7.1 Phloem sap.- 7.2 Structure of the phloem.- 7.3 Mechanism of solute movement in the phloem.- 7.4 Loading of solutes into the phloem.- 7.5 Solute unloading.- 7.6 Exchange of solutes between xylem and phloem.- References.