Karl Niklas, Plant Physics
In a book talk at Cornell University's Mann Library in October 2012, Karl J. Niklas, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discusses his new book "Plant Physics." Emerging from long-term collaboration between plant evolutionary biologist Niklas and physicist Hanns-Christof Spatz, the book explains how plants cannot be fully understood without examining how physical forces and processes influence growth, development, reproduction, evolution, and the environment. As a unique contribution in the field of biomechanics, the book provides a valuable reference for researchers interested in how plants work from a physical perspective.
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Green plants make use of quantum physics in their photosynthetic activities by which they collect light energy in the form of packets of photons so efficiently and putting them deep into their chloroplasts where the harvested light energy is trapped into biomolecules with extraordinary efficiency.
I wonder how green plants on thylakoid membrane convert enormous amount of solar energy into chemical energy within a very short time, million billionth of a secondon, on which the whole biological and physical world structural and energy materials.
Hi Bill--Why don't you try contacting Prof. Niklas directly? You can find his contact info using Cornell's vivo portal: vivo.cornell.edu
Is there any way that I could obtain his morpho-space paper?
It's incredible that whoever was "filming" this kept the camera pointed at the speaker for almost the entire time and only showed the slides for about a second a piece. Really detracts from the talk and the points the speaker was trying to make.