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4. Water Balance of Plants

Essay 4.1, A Brief History of the Study of Water Movement in the Xylem - Hanno Richter, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, and Pierre Cruiziat, PIAF-INRA-UBP, France (August 2002)
Essay 4.2, The Cohesion–Tension Theory at Work - Pierre Cruiziat, PIAF-INRA-UBP, France, and Hanno Richter, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna (May 2006)
Essay 4.3, How Water Climbs to the Top of a 112 Meter-Tall Tree - George Koch, Northern Arizona University; Stephen Sillett and Gregg Jennings, Humboldt State University; Stephen Davis, Pepperdine University (May 2006)
Essay 4.4, Cavitation and Refilling - James K. Wheeler and N. Michele Holbrook, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (March 2007)

5. Mineral Nutrition

Essay 5.1, Boron Functions in Plants: Looking Beyond the Cell Wall - Ildefonso Bonilla,¹ Dale Blevins,² and Luis Bolaños¹
(1) Depto. Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; (2) Plant Science Unit, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA (March 2009)
Essay 5.2, From Meals to Metals and Back - David E. Salt, Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University (September 2006)

6. Solute Transport

Essay 6.1, Potassium Channels - Richard W. Mercier and Gerald A. Berkowitz, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut (September 2006)
Essay 6.2, Calmodulin: A Simple but Multifaceted Signal Transducer - Ray Zielinski, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (August 2010)

7. Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions

Essay 7.1, A Novel View of Chloroplast Structure - Maureen R. Hanson and Rainer H. Köhler, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (September 2006)

8. Photosynthesis: The Carbon Reactions

Essay 8.1, Modulation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase in C₄ and CAM Plants - Bob B. Buchanan, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Ricardo A. Wolosiuk, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas, University of Buenos Aires (August 2002)

11. Respiration and Lipid Metabolism

Essay 11.1, Metabolic Flexibility Helps Plants to Survive Stress - William C. Plaxton, Professor of Biology & Biochemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (September 2010)
Essay 11.2, Metabolic Profiling of Plant Cells - Phuc T. Do, Sonia Osorio, Alisdair R. Fernie, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Germany (September 2010)
Essay 11.3, Mitochondrial Dynamics: When Form Meets Function - David C Logan Department of Biology, WP Thompson Building, University of Saskatchewan, (September 2010)
Essay 11.4, Seed Mitochondria and Stress Tolerance - David Macherel and Marie-Hélène Avelange-Macherel, UMR 1191 Physiologie Moléculaire des Semences, Université d’Angers, France (September 2010)
Essay 11.5, Balancing Life and Death: The Role of the Mitochondrion in Programmed Cell Death - Theresa J. Reape and Paul F. McCabe, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland (September 2010)
Essay 11.6, Respiration by Thermogenic Flowers - Roger S. Seymour Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Adelaide University, Australia and Kikukatsu Ito Cryobiofrontier Research Center Iwate University, Japan (September 2010)
Essay 11.7, Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and Plant Respiration - Ian M. Møller, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark (September 2010)
Essay 11.8, Coenzyme Synthesis in Plant Mitochondria - Stéphane Ravanel, Claude Alban, and Fabrice Rébeillé
Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, UMR5168 CNRS-CEA-INRA-Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble I, institut de Recherches en Sciences et Technologies pour le Vivant, CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France (September 2010)
Essay 11.9, In Vivo Measurement of Plant Respiration - Miquel Ribas-Carbo¹, Jaume Flexas¹ and Sharon A Robinson², Guillaume G. B. Tcherkez³ ¹Grup de Recerca en Biologia de les Plantes en Condicions Mediterrànies Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain ²Institute for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia. ³Plateforme Métabolisme-Métabolome, Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, CNRS UMR 8618, Université Paris-Sud XI, 91405 Orsay cedex, France. (August 2010)

12. Assimilation of Mineral Nutrients

Essay 12.1, Elevated CO₂ and Nitrogen Photoassimilation - Arnold J. Bloom, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis (August 2010)

13. Secondary Metabolites and Plant Defense

Essay 13.1, Engineering Fruit Aromas - Gepstein Shimon, Department of Biology, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Lewinsohn Efraim, Newe Ya′ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Ramat Yishay, Israel (September 2006)
Essay 13.2, Secondary Metabolites and Allelopathy in Plant Invasions: A Case Study of Centaurea maculosa - Amanda K. Broz and Jorge M. Vivanco, Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Matthew J. Schultz, Forest Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship Department, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Laura G. Perry and Mark W. Paschke, Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, and Forest Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship Department, Fort Collins, CO, USA (September 2006)
Essay 13.3, Alkaloid-Making Fungal Symbionts - Christopher L. Schardl, Jimmy D. Blankenship, Caroline Machado, & Martin J. Spiering, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington (May 2006)
Essay 13.4, Early Signaling Events in the Plant Wound Response - Massimo Maffei, Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Plant Biology, University of Turin, Innovation Centre, Via Quarello 11/A 10135 Turin, Italy (August 2010)
Essay 13.5, Jasmonates and Other Fatty Acid-Derived Signaling Pathways in the Plant Defense Response - Jurgen Engelberth, Deptartment of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX (February 2011)
Essay 13.6, The Systemin Receptor - Justin M. Scheer, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University (August 2010)
Essay 13.7, The Plant Volatilome - Massimo Maffei, Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Plant Biology, University of Turin, Innovation Centre, Turin, Italy (May 2011)
Essay 13.8, Unraveling the Function of Secondary Metabolites (May 2006)
Essay 13.9, Smelling the Danger and Getting Prepared: Volatile Signals as Priming Agents in Defense Response - Jurgen Engelberth, Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA (September 2006)

15. Cell Walls: Structure, Biogenesis, and Expansion

Essay 15.1, Calcium Gradients and Oscillations in Growing Pollen Tube - Peter Hepler and Alenka Lovy-Wheeler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (September 2006)
Essay 15.2, Microtubules, Microfibrils, and Growth Anisotropy - Tobias I. Baskin, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (September 2006)

16. Growth and Development

Essay 16.1, Division Plane Determination in Plant Cells - Laurie G. Smith, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego (May 2006)
Essay 16.2, Plant Meristems: A Historical Overview - Ian Sussex, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University (May 2006)

17. Phytochrome and Light Control of Plant Development

Essay 17.1, Awakened By a Flash of Sunlight - A. Scopel, C. L. Ballaré and R .A. Sánchez, IFEVA, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET. (August 2002)
Essay 17.2, Diversity of Phytochrome Chromophores - Ruairidh J. H. Sawers, Department of Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (September 2006)
Essay 17.3, Know Thy Neighbor through Phytochrome - C. L. Ballaré, A. Scopel, J. J. Casal and R. A. Sánchez, IFEVA, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET. (May 2006)

18. Blue-Light Responses: Morphogenesis and Stomatal Movements

Essay 18.1, Guard Cell Photosynthesis - Tracy Lawson and James I. L. Morison, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK (September 2010)
Essay 18.4, The Blue–Green Reversibility of the Blue-Light Response of Stomata - Lawrence D. Talbott, Department of Environmental Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California at Los Angeles (September 2006)

19. Auxin: The First Discovered Plant Growth Hormone

Essay 19.1, Exploring the Cellular Basis of Polar Auxin Transport - Angus Murphy, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University (May 2006)
Essay 19.2, Strigolactones: The Unmasking of a New Branching Hormone - Christine Beveridge, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (May 2011)

20. Gibberellins: Regulators of Plant Height and Seed Germination

Essay 20.1, Gibberellins in Pea: From Mendel to Molecular Physiology - John J. Ross, School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia (September 2006)
Essay 20.2, Ubiquitin Becomes Ubiquitous in GA Signaling - Tohru Ariizumi and Camille M. Steber, Department of Crop and Soil Science, and USDA-ARS, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA (September 2006)
Essay 20.3, Green Revolution Genes - Peter Hedden, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK (August 2010)
Essay 20.4, Overgrowth Mutants of Barley—from Model System to Potential Crops - Peter M. Chandler, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia (August 2010)

21. Cytokinins: Regulators of Cell Division

Essay 21.1, 1955: The Discovery of Kinetin - Richard Amasino, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (August 2010)
Essay 21.2, Cytokinin-Induced Form and Structure in Moss - Karen S. Schumaker, University of Arizona at Tucson, Dept. Plant Sciences (May 2006)

22. Ethylene: The Gaseous Hormone

Essay 22.1, Tumor-Induced Ethylene Controls Crown Gall Morphogenesis - Roni Aloni, Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Cornelia I. Ullrich, Botany, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (April 2005)

23. Abscisic Acid: A Seed Maturation and Stress-Response Hormone

Essay 23.1, Heterophylly in Aquatic Plants - Bai-Ling Lin (August 2002)
Essay 23.2, Hope for Humpty Dumpty: Systems Biology of Cellular Signaling - Sally Assmann, Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA (August 2010)

24. Brassinosteroids: Regulators of Cell Expansion and Development

Essay 24.1, Brassinosteroids and the Apical Hook—An Ongoing Story in Plant Architecture - Jenneth Sasse, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (August 2006)

25. The Control of Flowering

Essay 25.1, The Role of Gibberellins in Floral Evocation of the Grass Lolium temulentum - Rod W. King and Lloyd T. Evans, CSIRO, Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600 Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia (September 2006)

26. Responses and Adaptations to Abiotic Stress

Essay 26.1, The Effect of Air Pollution on Plants - Eduardo Zeiger, University of California, Los Angeles (September 2006)
Essay 26.2, An Extreme Plant Lifestyle: Metal Hyperaccumulation - David E. Salt, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (August 2006)