The book comprehensively views the intersection between electrochemistry and botany. It attempts to inform people about the capacity of electrochemistry to provide information of interest to plant science. This includes electrophysiology, plant communication, and plant defense responses, as well as chemoecological and phylogenetic aspects. Conversely, the book also treats the capabilities of vegetal systems and vegetal-derived materials to be used in electrochemical applications for sensing, energy production and storage, and environmental issues.
The book comprehensively views the intersection between electrochemistry and botany. It attempts to inform people about the capacity of electrochemistry to provide information of interest to plant science. This includes electrophysiology, plant communication, and plant defense responses, as well as chemoecological and phylogenetic aspects.
1. Overview 1.1. Historical perspective 1.2. Plant electrochemistry 1.3. Electrochemistry in plants 1.4. Electrochemical methods
2. Electrophysiology I 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Transmembrane potentials 2.3. Ionic transport, ion channels 2.4. Tonoplats, vesicles, vacuoles; electrogenic pumps 2.4. Turgor pressure 2.5. Salt overly sensitive signaling 2.6. Electrochemistry of photosynthesis
3. Electrophysiology II3.1. Green plants as electrochemical interfaces 3.2. Phloem and xylem systems3.3. Action and variation potentials 3.4. Other electrical signals in plants3.5. Gravitropism 3.6. Effects of electromagnetic field in plants
4. Electrochemistry of vegetal components 4.1. Thermochemical aspects, reversibility 4.2. Kinetics aspects4.3. Mechanistic considerations 4.4. Flavones, flavonols, flavanones, flavanonols, and isoflavonoids 4.5. Anthocyanins 4.6. Lignins 4.7. Quinones, tannins 4.8. Alkaloids4.9. Solid state electrochemistry
5. Electrochemistry of reactive oxygen species (ROS)5.1. Introduction 5.2. Electrochemical generation of ROS 5.2. Interaction of ROS with plant components 5.3. Kinetic analysis
6. Nanoscale plant electrochemistry 6.1. Intracellular electrochemistry 6.2. Single cell electrochemistry 6.2. Biomimetic devices 6.3. Monitoring the activity of cell organules
7. Antioxidant capacity 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Chemical and electrochemical assays 7.2. Antioxidant components of plants 7.3. Total antioxidant parameters 7.4. Individual oxidants
8. Chemophysiology and chemoecology 8.1. Introduction 8.2. Monitoring plant growth 8.3. Electrochemical monitoring of plant stress 8.4. Plant communication 8.5. Kinetics of chemical signaling pathways
9. Electrochemotaxonomy and phylogenetics 9.1. Introduction 9.2. Electrochemical taxonomy 9.3. Adaptive mechanisms 9.4. Phylogenetic aspects 9.5. Signaling pathways and phylogenetics
10. Electroanalysis of plants/plants in electroanalysis 10.1. Overview 10.2. Determination of plant components 10.3. Determination of contaminants 10.4 Detection of plant diseases 10.5. Detection of mycotoxins 10.6. Foods and beverages 10.7. Herbal formulations 10.8. Organic matter in soils. 10.9. Sensors for plants and machine learning models
11. Vegetal matter in analysis, energy production and storage and corrosion studies 11.1. Introduction 11.2. Plant extract-mediated biosynthesis of nanomaterials 11.3. Vegetal matter as electrode modifier 11.4. Bio-batteries and capacitors 11.5. Corrosion inhibition by essential oils 11.6. Microbiologically influenced corrosion
Antonio Doménech-Carbó is Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Valencia, Spain. He is the author of more than 270 articles in indexed journals and several books.
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