By C. B. Johnson,Christopher B. Johnson

ISBN-10: 0408106492

ISBN-13: 9780408106498

Physiological approaches proscribing Plant productiveness offers the lawsuits of the 30th college of Nottingham Easter institution in Agricultural technology held at Sutton Bonington in England on April 2-5, 1979. individuals specialize in physiological procedures proscribing plant progress and improvement within the context of agricultural productiveness. Emphasis is put on the elemental mechanisms that underlie crop construction and their regulate.
This textual content is made from 20 chapters; the 1st of which discusses the genetics of crop body structure when it comes to agricultural creation. the diversity of difficulties that plant physiologists needs to handle is taken into account, through an review of what's occurring in crop body structure. a couple of chapters are dedicated to the usage of sunshine via crop vegetation, plant meals, water kinfolk, and the results of an edition to detrimental stipulations together with these imposed by way of pollution. The reader can also be brought to the impression of photoperiodism on crop construction; gasoline alternate in water-stressed vegetation; and using water, solar power, and fossil fuels in crop construction.
This booklet may be of curiosity to agriculturists, plant breeders, and researchers operating in proper elements of plant biochemistry, body structure, and genetics.

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