Physiology is concerned with the functioning of plants. This is largely interactions between plants and their environments. As such plant physiology bridges the gap between biochemistry and ecology.
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- Natural Environmental Research Council - UK News involving NERC, funding opportunities, details of NERC funded science and research centers.
- Plantstress.com Dedicated to plant environmental stress in agriculture and biology. The site contains news, announcements, events, original articles, a reference database, files and presentations, biotech issues, more than 400 linked web resources and a bulletin board.
- Flowering Newsletter The Flowering Newsletter is an online publication from the International Working Group on Flowering and aims to speedily report on research dealing with the flowering process.
- Utah State University Crop Physiology Lab The CPL is primarily funded by NASA and most research is dedicated towards optimizing the growth of several plant species, including wheat, soybean, rice, lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, and carrots for use in bio-regenerative life support systems. The lab is also involved in several non-NASA related research projects, including phytoremediation and phytotoxicity experiments.
- Phytochemistry tutorials A herbalist's site but contains useful information on a range of compounds synthesized by plants. Currently incomplete.
- An Outline of an Alternative Theory of Plant Hormones This site lists Plant Hormones and their characteristics and goes on to try to provide unifying 'reasons' for their effects. It is not part of current scientific thinking.
- Plant Physiology Online An online companion to "Plant Physiology, Third Edition" by Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger. Includes Essays, Topics in Plant Physiology, Study Questions and Further Readings.
- Photosynthesis Education List of educational photosynthesis sites, includes links on the history of photosynthesis research and researchers.
- Waltraud's Carnivorous Plants Homepage Nutrient acquisition by different species of carnivorous plants.
- Seed Biology Place Explains anatomy, germination, dormancy, after-ripening, including ß-1,3-glucanase biochemistry during endosperm rupture and coat-enhanced dormancy of tobacco. Includes PDF of publications from Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany.
- Cadmium accumulation in durum wheat Summary of research exploring the physiological basis for high accumulation of cadmium (Cd) in durum wheat grain.
- Plants-In-Motion Well-executed, time-lapse, QuickTime movies of plant growth and development - from Indiana Univ.
- Photosynthesis Center The Photosynthesis Center at Arizona State University is a multidisciplinary group doing research in several areas of photosynthesis. Also, links to many other related sites.
- Tannin Chemistry Includes a link to a PDF book chapter on Tannin chemistry.
- Nitrogen fixation This web site is not designed to be a comprehensive presentation on nitrogen fixation, but rather it is intended as a forum to present informative images that are not otherwise easily available.