Product Description: During the past ten years there has been a marked integration of approaches within the areas of study concerned with the translocation of assimilates in higher plants. Researchers from various fields, such as horticulture, physiology and biochemistry, have found common ground as the integrative role that phloem transport plays within the major processes of the plant has become increasingly apparent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Plants, in addition to their role as primary synthesizers of organic com­ pounds, have evolved as selective accumulators of inorganic nutrients from the earth's crust. This ability to mine the physical environment is restricted to green plants and some microorganisms, other life forms being direct1y or indirect1y dependent on this process for their supply of mineral nutrients...read more