Lectures on Plant Physiology (Authorized English Translation)

xiv, 564 pp. With 172 illustrations. CONTENTS: Introduction; Part I. Metabolism: Material Composition of the Plant - Absorption of Materials in General - Absorption of Materials in Detail; Fate of Substances Absorbed; Water; Mineral Constituents; Carbon and Nitrogen: Assimilation in Holophytic Plants and Fate of the Products of Assimilation - Acquisition of Carbon and Nitrogen by Heterotrophic Plants - Katabolism in Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Plants - Special Cases of Anabolism and Katabolism; Part II. Metamorphosis: Problems of Developmental Physiology - Growth and Formation Under Constant External Conditions - Influence of External Conditions on Growth and Formation - The Development of the Plant Under the Influence of Internal and External Factors; Periodicity in Vegetative Life; Periodicity in Reproduction; Heredity and Variation; Part III. Transformation of Energy: Hygroscopic Movements - Variation and Nutation Movements; Ejaculatory Movements; Paratonic Movements: Tropisms (Directive Movements); Nastic Curvatures (Bending Movements); Review of Paratonic Movements; Autonomous Movements; Locomotory Movements: Autonomous Locomotory Movements; Locomotory Directive Movements (Taxis); Index.