Nobel P.S. Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology

4th Edition. — Elsevier, 2009. — 604 p.Nobel's books are widely acknowledged for their outstanding rigour and clarity of exposition, and the excellence of the examples of plant behaviour with which he illustrates points.In total, these chapters, with the appendices and lists of symbols and abbreviations, provide a very sound and up-to-date account of the physicochemical bases of transport and (photo-) chemical transformation processes in plants and their environment. The development of the quantitative arguments is very carefully executed.The exposition is aided by the worked examples in the text, and by the numerical problems at the end of each chapter. For the first time in this sequence of books, the solutions to the problems are given (at the end of the book). I wish to convey my gratitude to Park Nobel for having succeeded in the extremely difficult task of making this latest book not only more up-to-date, but even clearer and more user-friendly than the earlier books. No other text so effectively integrates the cellular biophysical aspects of energy transformations and transport processes with the more environmental (largely terrestrial) ways of applying physicochemical principles to the study of plant performance. The book deserves to be widely read and will be of great use for a substantial time.