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Plants in Action
A resource for teachers and students of plant science

second edition


About the textbook

Welcome to Plants in Action. This online text book, produced by the Australian and New Zealand societies of plant sciences, makes high-quality, cutting-edge, peer-reviewed research freely available to users across the world.

Edition 2, Plants in Action. You are now on the home page of Edition 2. Ten of the original twenty chapters have been fully revised, as shown on the navigation panel.

Edition 1, Plants in Action is also available free and on-line at http://plantsinaction.science.uq.edu.au/edition1. Twenty chapters provide over a thousand illustrations designed for teaching that are easily downloaded.

If you wish to contact the editorial team with queries or suggestions, please email the Australian Society of Plant Scientists: [e-mail]. To use figures or text for non-commercial purposes, please acknowledge the source as: "Reproduced from Plants in Action, http://plantsinaction.science.uq.edu.au, published by the Australian Society of Plant Scientists." Reproduction of this material in another language or for commercial purposes requires permission.




Editorial committee



Professor Rana Munns is an honorary fellow at CSIRO Agriculture in Canberra, and professor in the School of Plant Biology, and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, at the University of Western Australia. She uses physiological insights and molecular genetics to improve growth and yield of crop plants in dry or saline soils. Rana is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and an editor of PrometheusWiki, the plant methods wiki.


Professor Susanne Schmidt is a researcher and educator at The University of Queensland and Alexander von Humboldt fellow. Susanne has a passion for ecophysiology and plant nutrition and leads a vibrant group researching plant-microbe-soil interactions. Fundamental to applied research addresses environmental problems at the interface of ecology and agriculture.


Professor Christine Beveridge is a researcher and educator at The University of Queensland and current Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Christine’s research team uses advanced molecular, physiology and computer modelling technologies to understand how mobile plant signals and resources interact to control shoot and root architecture and development.

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Chapter 1 - Light use and leaf gas exchange
Chapter 2 - Carbon dioxide assimilation and respiration
Chapter 3 - Water movement in plants
Chapter 4 - Nutrient uptake from soils
Chapter 5 - Phloem transport
Chapter 6 - Growth analysis: a quantitative approach
Chapter 11 - Fruit growth, ripening and post-harvest physiology
Chapter 12 - Sunlight and plant production
Chapter 14 - Temperature and acclimation
Chapter 18 - Waterlogging and submergence

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