Plant Respiration

Plant Respiration
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781402035890
ISBN-13 : 1402035896
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Plant Respiration by : Hans Lambers

Download or read book Plant Respiration written by Hans Lambers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respiration in plants, as in all living organisms, is essential to provide metabolic energy and carbon skeletons for growth and maintenance. As such, respiration is an essential component of a plant’s carbon budget. Depending on species and environmental conditions, it consumes 25-75% of all the carbohydrates produced in photosynthesis – even more at extremely slow growth rates. Respiration in plants can also proceed in a manner that produces neither metabolic energy nor carbon skeletons, but heat. This type of respiration involves the cyanide-resistant, alternative oxidase; it is unique to plants, and resides in the mitochondria. The activity of this alternative pathway can be measured based on a difference in fractionation of oxygen isotopes between the cytochrome and the alternative oxidase. Heat production is important in some flowers to attract pollinators; however, the alternative oxidase also plays a major role in leaves and roots of most plants. A common thread throughout this volume is to link respiration, including alternative oxidase activity, to plant functioning in different environments.


Plant Respiration Related Books

Plant Respiration
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Hans Lambers
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-30 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Respiration in plants, as in all living organisms, is essential to provide metabolic energy and carbon skeletons for growth and maintenance. As such, respiratio
Plant Respiration: Metabolic Fluxes and Carbon Balance
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Guillaume Tcherkez
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-20 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

There are currently intense efforts devoted to understand plant respiration (from genes toecosystems) and its regulatory mechanisms; this is because respiratory
Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Dale Walters
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-04 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Despite the research effort put into controlling pathogens, pests and parasitic plants, crop losses are still a regular feature of agriculture worldwide. This m
Analytic Studies in Plant Respiration
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Frederick Frost Blackman
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally published in 1954, this collection of the posthumous papers of the eminent plant physiologist Frederick Frost Blackman includes six papers that were
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors:
Categories: Cells
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK