Objective Plant Physiology

This book has been written to meet the specific needs of candidates appearing in Agriculture Research Service, CSIR, TIFR/NCBS, IISc (Bangalore), GATE, IIT-JAM, JRF, SRF and Biology Olympiads and other competitive examinations. A large number of mind-boggling questions of advance levels are presented. We have tired our best with wide array of questions covering minutest details of the subject in simpler form. Objective Plant Physiology is an exclusive fundamental search based collection of multiple choice questions prepared for students mainly to help them revise, consolidate and improve their knowledge and skills. The book comprises of twenty nine chapters covering different aspects of plant physiology containing more than 2500 questions accompanied with their answers.

This book has been written to meet the specific needs of candidates appearing in Agriculture Research Services, CSIR, TIFR/NCBS, IISc (Bangalore), GATE, IIT-JAM, JRF, SRF, and Biology Olympiads and other competitive examinations. A large number of mind-boggling questions of advance levels are presented. We have tried our best with wide array of questions covering minutest details of the subject in simpler form. Objective Plant Physiology is an exclusive fundamental search based collection of multiple choice questions prepared for students mainly to help them revise, consolidate and improve their knowledge and skills. The book comprises of twenty nine chapters covering diffferent aspects of plant physiology containing more than 2650 questions accompained with their answers.

In its 19th edition, the book continues to provide a comprehensive coverage on the basic principles of plant physiology. It focuses on the concepts of plant physiological form & functions as well as processes in crop production. Besides fulfilling the needs of undergraduate students, this book will be useful to postgraduate students and also to those appearing in various competitive examinations.

In this comprehensive and stimulating text and reference, the authors have succeeded in combining experimental data with current hypotheses and theories to explain the complex physiological functions of plants. For every student, teacher and researcher in the plant sciences it offers a solid basis for an in-depth understanding of the entire subject area, underpinning up-to-date research in plant physiology. The authors vividly explain current research by references to experiments, they cite original literature in figures and tables, and, at the end of each chapter, list recent references that are relevant for a deeper analysis of the topic. In addition, an abundance of detailed and informative illustrations complement the text.

The textbook of Plant Physiology aims to understand how plants live and function. Its ultimate objective is to explain all life processes of plants. It includes many aspects of plant life, including nutrition, movement, and growth. The whole subject matter of the present book has been divided into 9 chapters which includes water metabolism, mineral nutrition, nitrogen metabolism, photosynthesis, respiration, plant hormone, secondary metabolites, sensory photo-biology, and stress physiology. Glossary of technical terms adds much value to the book as a ready reckoner to understand key words generally referred to plant physiology. We hope that this book will be of greater use for the undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers of botany, agriculture, plant science and other related discipline.

Excerpt from Plant Physiology The main Objective in preparing this volume has been to present, in a brief and compact form, to the students of our universities and agricultural colleges and to our future technical agriculturists clear and exact information concerning the life and vital functions of green plants. Such information should help them to understand the Significance of various methods that are being applied in agricultural practice to increase the yield and improve its quality. The ultimate purpose of the study of plant physiology is to control the growth and development of the plant in order to satisfy the need of mankind for plant materials as well as to provide forage crops for livestock. Such control is possible only on the basis of a fundamental study of the life of the plant as a whole, as well as in its separate constituent processes. Analysis of all the vital processes occurring in the plant is, therefore, a very important part of physiology, and experimentation forms the basic method for revealing the laws controlling the vital processes. But analysis should not obscure the synthetic problems of plant physiology or the presentation of the whole life of the plant as a united organism; on the contrary, they should be intimately coordinated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.