Product Description: When WILHELM RUHLAND developed his plan for an Encyclopedia of Plant Physiol­ ogy more than three decades ago, biology could still be conveniently subdivided into classical areas. Even within plant physiology, subdivisions were not too difficult to make, and general principles could be covered sufficiently in the two introductory volumes of the Encyclopedia on the physical and chemical basis of cell biology...read more

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)