"Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants."
The study of how plants function.
Photosynthesis: The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy in the form of glucose and other organic compounds.
Respiration: The process by which plants break down glucose and other organic compounds to release energy for cellular work.
Transpiration: The process by which plants lose water from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.
Nutrient uptake and transport: The process by which plants take up nutrients from the soil and transport them to various parts of the plant for growth and development.
Plant growth and development: The processes by which plants grow and develop from seeds, including cell division, elongation, differentiation and morphogenesis.
Plant hormones: Chemical messengers that regulate plant growth and development, including growth promoters (auxins) and growth inhibitors (cytokinins).
Environmental stress responses: The ways in which plants respond to various stressors, such as drought, salt, extreme temperatures, and pests/pathogens.
Plant signaling: The ways in which plants communicate with each other and with their environment, including intra-plant, inter-plant and plant-animal signaling mechanisms.
Plant genetics and biotechnology: The study of plant genetics and the use of genetic engineering techniques to improve crop yield, quality, and resistance to stresses.
Plant-microbe interactions: The interactions between plants and microorganisms, including beneficial and detrimental symbiotic relationships.
"Closely related fields include plant morphology (structure of plants), plant ecology (interactions with the environment), phytochemistry (biochemistry of plants), cell biology, genetics, biophysics, and molecular biology."
"Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed germination, dormancy, and stomata function and transpiration, both parts of plant water relations, are studied by plant physiologists."
"Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants."
"Closely related fields include plant morphology (structure of plants)."
"Closely related fields include plant ecology (interactions with the environment)."
"Closely related fields include phytochemistry (biochemistry of plants)."
"Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed germination, dormancy, and stomata function and transpiration, both parts of plant water relations, are studied by plant physiologists."
"Closely related fields include plant morphology, plant ecology, phytochemistry, cell biology, genetics, biophysics, and molecular biology."
"Closely related fields include genetics."
"Seed germination, dormancy, and stomata function and transpiration, both parts of plant water relations, are studied by plant physiologists."
"Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropisms, nastic movements, photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed germination, dormancy, and stomata function and transpiration are studied by plant physiologists."
"Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants."
"Closely related fields include plant ecology (interactions with the environment)."
"Fundamental processes such as plant hormone functions are studied by plant physiologists."
"Photoperiodism, photomorphogenesis, circadian rhythms, environmental stress physiology, seed germination, dormancy, and stomata function and transpiration, both parts of plant water relations, are studied by plant physiologists."
"Closely related fields include cell biology."
"Environmental stress physiology is studied by plant physiologists."
"Seed germination is studied by plant physiologists."
"Dormancy and stomata function and transpiration, both parts of plant water relations, are studied by plant physiologists."