Modern Botany

Modern Botany The Present Book is a text book on modern topics of Botany. The First Chapter of this book is on plasma membrane, wherein, details of transport mechanism is discussed. There are three sections in this book. Section I deals with the biochemistry and metabolism Section II covers developmental physiology and the Section III is on plant biotechnology. In this section, Ti plasmid, transposable elements and transgenic plants are discussed in details. Contents : Content SECTION - 1 BIOCHEMSTRY AND METABOLISM 1. Plasma membrane 2. Metabolism and Bioenergetics 3. Cell Biochemistry 4. Enzyme 5. Photosynthesis 6. Respiration 7. Photorespiration 8. Nitrogen and sulphur Assimilation 9. Nucleic Acid the Molecular Approach 10. Amino Acid Metabolism 11. Protein Synthesis 12. Fat Metabolism SECTION - II DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY 13. Signal Transduction 14. Plant Growth Regulators and Elicitors 15. Photomorphogenesis 16. Physiology of Flowering SECTION - III BIOTECHNOLOGY 17. Transformation and Transposons 18. Transgenic Plants 19. Tissue Culture 20. Bioinformatics Glossary References Index