Photosynthetic rate and dynamic environment. * Kazutoshi Yabuki, 2004. * Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. * {euro}50 (hardback). 130 pp.

In photosynthesis, CO₂ enters theleaf from the atmosphere and moves to the active site of thecarboxylating enzyme, to be bound in an organic compound. Theprocess is largely diffusional and the pathway, although complicatedin detail, is usually split into sections related to differentanatomic structures, such as chloroplasts, cell walls, intercellularair space, stomatal pores and, finally the leaf boundary layer.Biologists have mainly been concerned with those sections thatare embedded within the leaf, considering the boundary layeras something external, not under the control by biological processes.Well, light is also not controlled