1 The Starting Point.- I Biophysical Background and the Substances Subject to Transport: Chapters 2 and 3.- 2 Biophysical Relations.- 3 The Materials of Transport.- II Complications of Models by Cellular Structures: Chapters 4 to 7.- 4 The Cell Wall as a Phase for Transport.- 5 The Membranes.- 6 The Simplified Cell Models of Transport Physiology.- 7 Correlations Between the Fine Structure of the Cytoplasm and Transport Functions: Futher Complications of the Model.- III Regulation and Control of Transport Processes by Cell Metabolism: Chapters 8 to 10.- 8 Sources of Metabolic Energy for Membrane Transport Mechanisms.- 9 Phytochrome and Phytohormones Affecting Membrane Transport Mechanisms.- 10 Coupling Between Energy-Transfer Processes in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts and Transport Mechanisms at Spatially Separated Membranes.- IV Inter-Cellular and Inter-Organ Transport: Chapters 11 to 13.- 11 Medium-Distance Transport and Long-Distance Transport.- 12 Coupling of Short-Distance, Medium-Distance and Long-Distance Transport in Special Plant Organs and Interconnections Between Different Pathways of Transport.- 13 Transport Regulation in the Plant as a Whole.- References.
Until 2004 Ulrich Lüttge taught at the Institute for Botany at the TU Darmstadt. He is an experienced teacher and is concerned with membrane physiology and biochemistry, circadian rhythms among photosynthesis processes as well as the antioxidative defense system of plants
