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Book Environmental Control of Plant Growth

Download or read book Environmental Control of Plant Growth written by L.T. Evans and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Control of Plant Growth consists of the proceedings of a symposium held at Canberra, Australia, in August 1962. The symposium aims to consider the natural microenvironments of plants and the associations between natural and controlled environments. It also considers the physiological and genetic bases of responses by plants to environmental conditions. The book contains 24 chapters and discusses the physics of plant environment, as well as the physical quantities within plant-air layers. It also elucidates the energy and water balance, light relations, gas exchange, and energy relations in plant communities. The book also looks into the respiration of various organs and of whole plants. Lastly, the effects of the environment, including "climatic factors, on the metabolism of plant cells are addressed.

Book Environmental Control of Plant Growth

Download or read book Environmental Control of Plant Growth written by L. T. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Symposium on Climate   Rice

Download or read book Proceedings of the Symposium on Climate Rice written by International Rice Research Institute and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Lab for All Seasons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon E. Kingsland
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300267223
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book A Lab for All Seasons written by Sharon E. Kingsland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in the study of plant adaptation, evolution, and ecosystem function. The phytotron, an integrated complex of controlled-environment greenhouse and laboratory spaces, was invented by Frits W. Went at the California Institute of Technology in the 1950s, setting off a worldwide laboratory movement, and transforming the plant sciences. Sharon Kingsland explores this revolution through a comparative study of work in the United States, France, Australia, Israel, the USSR, and Hungary--in the latter two, offering new interpretations of the response to Lysenkoism in Communist states. These advances in botanical research energized physiological plant ecology. Case studies explore the development of phytotron spin-offs such as mobile laboratories, rhizotrons, and ecotrons. Scientific problems include the significance of plant emissions of volatile organic compounds, symbiosis between plants and soil fungi, and the discovery of new pathways for photosynthesis as an adaptation to hot, dry climates. The advancement of knowledge through synthesis is a running theme: linking disciplines, combining laboratory and field research, and moving across ecological scales from leaf to ecosystem. The book also charts the history of modern scientific responses to the emerging crisis of food insecurity in the era of global warming.

Book Environmental Control of Plant Growth  Proceedings

Download or read book Environmental Control of Plant Growth Proceedings written by L. T. (Ed.). EVANS and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of a phytotron. The physics of plant environments. The environment of plant surfaces. Climatic control of plant water relations. Energy and water balance of plant communities. Light relations in plant communities. Gas exchange in plant communities. Climatic control of photosynthesis and respiration. Energy relations in plant communities. Effect of climate on the distribution and translocation of assimilates. The mediation of climatic effects through endogenous regulating substances. Effects of environment on metabolic patterns. Endogenous rehytms in controlled environments. Control of plant growth by light. Climatic control of germination, Bud break, and dormancy. Climatic control of repoductive development. Morphogenetic responses to climate. Climate, weather, and plant yield. Hardiness and the survival of extremes: a uniform system for measuring resistance and its two components. The genetic basis of climatic response. Species and population differences in climatic response. Achievements, challenges, and limitations of phytotrons. Extrapolation from controlled environments to the field.

Book An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology  Volume 3

Download or read book An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology Volume 3 written by Jole Shackelford and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three volumes, historian Jole Shackelford delineates the history of the study of biological rhythms—now widely known as chronobiology—from antiquity into the twentieth century. Perhaps the most well-known biological rhythm is the circadian rhythm, tied to the cycles of day and night and often referred to as the “body clock.” But there are many other biological rhythms, and although scientists and the natural philosophers who preceded them have long known about them, only in the past thirty years have a handful of pioneering scientists begun to study such rhythms in plants and animals seriously. Tracing the intellectual and institutional development of biological rhythm studies, Shackelford offers a meaningful, evidence-based account of a field that today holds great promise for applications in agriculture, health care, and public health. Volume 1 follows early biological observations and research, chiefly on plants; volume 2 turns to animal and human rhythms and the disciplinary contexts for chronobiological investigation; and volume 3 focuses primarily on twentieth-century researchers who modeled biological clocks and sought them out, including three molecular biologists whose work in determining clock mechanisms earned them a Nobel Prize in 2017.

Book Bibliography of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grass Crop

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Jones
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-07
  • ISBN : 9400911874
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book The Grass Crop written by M. Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grass is a very important world crop. In some countries, for example the UK, Australia and New Zealand, animal products from grassland make a greater contribution to the value of agricultural production than does any other crop. Yet research being undertaken to further· our understanding of the factors affecting the growth and productivity of grasslands has trailed in the shadow of the determined efforts made to improve our knowledge of cereals and, to a somewhat lesser extent, legumes. However, in spite of its low profile, grassland research has resulted in considerable advances in our knowledge in the last 20 years, and we feel that this book provides a timely opportunity to bring together some of this work in a review of what is primarily the ecophysiology of the temperate grass crop. Unlike other crops grown for their grain or vegatative parts, grass and grassland products are used almost entirely for the feeding of ruminant animals; the interaction of the sward and the animal thus adds an extra dimension to investigations of the productivity of grassland. No one author could adequately encompass the breadth of work covered in the book. Acknowledged experts have therefore been selected as contributors to provide an up-to-date review of their own specialized areas. Whilst multi author texts can cause problems of lack of uniformity of approach, each contributor has been made aware of the contents of the other chapters in an attempt both to provide continuity and to prevent glaring overlaps.

Book Forage Germplasm Under Small Plot Grazing

Download or read book Forage Germplasm Under Small Plot Grazing written by O Paladines and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Principles and Measurements in Environmental Biology

Download or read book Principles and Measurements in Environmental Biology written by F I Woodward and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles and Measurements in Environmental Biology aims to provide an understanding of some important physical principles and their application in biology. The book also aims to describe how instruments utilizing these principles can be used to measure biological and environmental processes and their interactions. This book covers the effects of the environment on biological organisms; the application of theories of radiation, kinetic theory, gas laws, and diffusion in biology; and water and its properties. The relation of plants with atmosphere near the ground is also discussed. This book also presents sampling techniques; the computation of errors used in the interpretation of data; the use of different devices; and data gathering and its practical applications. This text is for students, researchers, and professionals and experts in biology who wish to understand the mentioned principles in physics, its mathematical aspects, and their applications in the field.

Book The First Fifty Years

Download or read book The First Fifty Years written by Australian Academy of Science and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Australian Academy of Science 1954-2004.

Book List of Conference Proceedings in Science and Technology  1948 1969

Download or read book List of Conference Proceedings in Science and Technology 1948 1969 written by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NIH Library Booklist

Download or read book NIH Library Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1967 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by Pavel Dvořák and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Soybean Physiology and Botany Research  250 BCE to 2021

Download or read book History of Soybean Physiology and Botany Research 250 BCE to 2021 written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 80 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.