Preface

Plant physiology is a science that studies the symptoms and causes of various vital events that occur throughout the life of plants. The vital events occurring in plants are the result of chemical and physical changes in the living matter of the cell. So, in more general terms, we can define the events that occur as a result of the physical and chemical changes that occur in living things as physiological. Plant physiology tries to answer the question of how and why these physiological events occur in plants, and thus plant physiology reveals the laws and principles in force for physiological events. While presenting these laws and principles, the laws of physics and chemistry are undoubtedly used to a large extent. This reveals that physiology has a close relationship with physics and chemistry. It should also be noted that plant physiology has a special importance in biology because it is a science based on quantitative results, just like chemistry and physical sciences. Because plant physiologists must not only provide descriptive explanations but also explain events with quantitative values.

This book of eleven chapters on classical plant physiology and basic mechanisms aims to present to the reader, by combining many approaches based on the molecular basis of the development of plant physiology, the elucidation of basic metabolic pathways, and the events taking place at the cellular level, starting from the history of plant physiology to current molecular approaches and artificial intelligence-supported applications.

I would like to thank all the book authors who made valuable contributions to the preparation of this book, my advisors Prof. Dr. Fusün GÜMÜŞEL, Prof. Dr. Yelda ÖZDEN ÇİFTÇİ, Dr. Fernanda VİDİGAL DUERTA SOUZA and Dr. Dave ELLIS, who helped me excel in this field and provide useful products, and our families who always supported me.