Access to textbook (from within Cornell ip address or via web login) Lambers, Chapin, Pons. 2008. Plant Physiological Ecology. Springer. web access: click here
Background reading: Hay RKM, Porter JR (2006) The physiology of crop yield. introduction (pp 1-6). web access: click here
Background reading: Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 164-165) and Nobel PS (1999) Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology. (p. 143-151). web access: click here
Supplemental reading: Amthor JS. 2010. From sunlight to phytomass: on the potential efficiency of converting solar radiation to phyto-energy. New Phytologist188, 939-959. web access: click here
Background reading: Nobel PS (1999) Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology. (p. 258...). web access: click here
Recommended Supplemental reading: Loomis RS (1992) Aerial environment (pp. 131-161). In Crop Ecology. Productivity and management in agricultural systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. web access: click here
Recommended Supplemental reading: Loomis RS (1992) modeling canopy photosynthesis (pp. 275-288). In Crop Ecology. Productivity and management in agricultural systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. web access: click here
Background reading: Water potential concepts. Fitter AH, Hay RKM (2002) pp. 134-140 In: Environmental Physiology of Plants. Academic Press. Academic Press web access: click here
Supplemental reading:Koller D, Zamski E (2002) The phototropic pulvinus of bean Phaseolus vulgaris L. -- functional features. Plant Biology 4: 584-594. web access: click here
background reading:Phytochrome responses. Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 512-515) click here
Recommended supplemental reading:Ballare CL (1999) Keeping up with the neighbours: phytochrome sensing and other signalling mechanisms. Trends in Plant Science 4: 97-102 web access: click here
supplemental reading: Franklin KA (2008) Shade avoidance. New Phytologist 179: 930-944 web access: click here
Background reading:Leaf growth, pp. 35-60 In: Hay RKM, Porter JR (2006) The physiology of crop yield. web access: click here
supplemental reading: Planting density. pp.46-57 In: Gardner FP, Pearce RB, Mitchell RL (1985) Physiology of Crop Plants. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa web access: click here
background reading:Photosynthetic light responses. Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 249-252) click here
Follow-up reading regarding the question: How many times did the photosystems of chloroplasts evolve? web access:Biello (2012) How the first plant came to be. A genetic analysis reveals the ancient, complex and symbiotic roots of photosynthesis in plants.Scientific American 16 February, 2012. click here
supplemental background reading:Photosysystems. Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 172-179) click here
supplemental background reading:Photoinhibition. Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 189-182; 253-254) click here
background reading:2012.03.07.Ps_curves.FACE.pp260-263_Taiz&Zeigler.2010.pdf click here
supplemental background reading: Battisti and Naylor 2009 Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat Science 323:240 click here
supplemental background reading: Sage RF (2004) The evolution of C4 photosynthesis. New Phytologist 161: 341-370 click here
background reading:2012.03.26.Phloem_translocation.pp273-300_Taiz&Zeigler.2010.pdf click here
supplemental reading (this is the original paper describing the example given in class): Peng S, Laza RC, Visperas RM, Sanico AL, Cassman KG, Khush GS (2000) Grain Yield of Rice Cultivars and Lines Developed in the Philippines since 1966. Crop Sci 40: 307-314 click here
supplemental reading (note that the ABA model in class can explain the regional patchiness of stomatal behavior): West JD, Peak D, Peterson JQ, Mott KA (2005) Dynamics of stomatal patches for a single surface of Xanthium strumarium L. leaves observed with fluorescence and thermal images. Plant, Cell and Environment 28: 633-641 click here
supplemental reading (note that the NADPH model presented in class is an attempt to provide a way that mesophyll can communicate with guard cells): Mott KA (2009) Opinion: Stomatal responses to light and CO2 depend on the mesophyll. Plant Cell and Environment 32: 1479-1486 click here
Background reading: 2012.04.11.water_transport_soil-xylem-leaf-air.pdf. Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 87) . web access: click here
supplemental reading: Monshausen GB, Gilroy S (2009) Feeling green: mechanosensing in plants. Trends in Cell Biology 19: 228-235 click here
supplemental reading: Lambers H, Shane MW, Cramer MD, Pearse SJ, Veneklaas EJ (2006) Root structure and functioning for efficient acquisition of phosphorus: matching morphological and physiological traits. Annals of Botany 98: 693-713 click here
supplemental reading: Parniske M (2008) Arbuscular mycorrhiza: the mother of plant root endosymbioses. Nature Reviews Microbiology 6: 763-775 click here
supplemental reading (see summary diagram in Figure 4): Zhang H, Rong H, Pilbeam D (2007) Signalling mechanisms underlying the morphological responses of the root system to nitrogen in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 2329-2338 click here
supplemental reading: Good AG, Shrawat AK, Muench DG (2004) Can less yield more? Is reducing nutrient input into the environment compatible with maintaining crop production? Trends in Plant Science 9: 597-605 click here
supplemental reading: Boomsma CR, Santini JB, Tollenaar M, Vyn TJ (2009) Maize Morphophysiological Responses to Intense Crowding and Low Nitrogen Availability: An Analysis and Review. Agronomy Journal 101: 1426-1452 click here
Background reading: 2012.04.27.N2_fixation_by_rhizobia_Taiz&Zeigler.pdf. Taiz L, Zeiger E (2010) Plant Physiology.(p. 351) . web access: click here
supplemental reading: Charpentier M, Oldroyd G (2010) How close are we to nitrogen-fixing cereals? Current Opinion in Plant Biology 13: 556-564 click here
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