The Apoplast of Higher Plants: Compartment of Storage, Transport and Reactions The significance of the apoplast for the mineral nutrition of higher plants /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sattelmacher, Burkhard (Editor), Horst, Walter J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant ecology.; Trees.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant physiology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Tree Biology.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

It was the botanist Ernst Münch, who separated the plant into two principal compartments, the "dead" apoplast and the living symplast. Only during the last 20 years cell walls attracted the interest of a broader group of plant scientists. We know today that apoplastic functions are much mo...