Publisher's Synopsis
This text offers a broad-ranging interdisciplinary examination of the photosynthetic process through hierarchical levels of biological organization.;Its thirty-one chapters are organized into three-based discussions which integrate approaches from the molecular level to the biosphere, extrapolate studies from small plant communities to a global scale and investigate ways in which plants respond and adapt to environmental stress. The book also examines the structure and function of photosynthetic machinery, covering the energy-transducing process from the reaction centre to the level of the canopy. The book will be of interest to cell biologists, plant biochemists, environmentalists, pathologists, and botanists.
