Russell L. Jones & Helen Ougham 
The Molecular Life of Plants [PDF ebook] 

Preface xxiii
Part I Origins
1 Plant life: a primer 3
2 Molecules, metabolism and energy 42
3 Genome organization and expression 74
4 Cell architecture 114
Part II Germination
5 Membrane transport and intracellular protein trafficking 149
6 Seed to seedling: germination and mobilization of food reserves 181
7 Metabolism of reserves: respiration and gluconeogenesis 218
Part III Emergence
8 Light perception and transduction 251
9 Photosynthesis and photorespiration 284
Part IV Growth
10 Hormones and other signals 329
11 The cell cycle and meristems 371
12 Growth and development 405
Part V Maturation
13 Mineral nutrient acquisition and assimilation 455
14 Intercellular and long-distance transport 504
15 Environmental interactions 534
Part VI Renewal
16 Flowering and sexual reproduction 585
17 Development and dormancy of resting structures 629
18 Senescence, ripening and cell death 664
Acknowledgments, credits and sources 707
Index 713

Russell Jones was born in Wales and completed his B.Sc. and
Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He spent one
year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan State University
before being appointed to the faculty of the Department of Botany
at the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. He is now a
Professor of the Graduate School at UC-Berkeley.
Helen Ougham has a B.A. in Natural Sciences from the
University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has carried out research in
plant science for over 25 years at the Institute of Grassland and
Environmental Research and Aberystwyth University, and she teaches
regularly on graduate courses in genetics and genomics at the
University of Birmingham and in crop science at the International
Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, Zaragoza.
Howard Thomas studied at Aberystwyth University and is a
DSc in the University of Wales. He was head of cell and molecular
biology research and member of the management board at the
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. He has held
visiting professorships at the Universities of California, Bern and
Zurich and is currently Emeritus Professor of Biology at
Aberystwyth University.
Susan Waaland earned a B.A. in Biology at Earlham College
in Indiana and a Ph.D. in Botany at the University of California at
Berkeley. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Washington and continued there as a faculty member in Botany and
Biology. She spent a year in the Botany Department at the
University of California at Davis through the NSF Visiting
Professorships for Women Program. She is now an Emeritus Lecturer
in Biology at the University of Washington.