Crop Responses to Environment - Hardcover

Hall, Anthony E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849310288 ISBN 13: 9780849310287

Publisher: CRC Press, 2000

Synopsis

Crop Responses to Environment discusses the principles, theories, and experimental observations concerning plant responses to environment that are particularly relevant to developing improved crop cultivars and management methods. The book illustrates the importance of considering emergent plant properties as well as reductionist approaches to understanding plant function and adaptation.

Dr. Hall explains many practical applications to plant breeding, agronomy, and horticulture. He examines plant physiological and developmental responses to light and temperature as well as plant water-relations. He also describes climatic zone definitions based on temperature, rainfall, and evaporative demand in relation to plant adaptation and the prediction of crop water use. Irrigation management and crop responses to salinity and toxic levels of boron and aluminum are considered.

Numerous figures and tables illustrate the climates of major agricultural zones, giving a thorough knowledge of which crop species and production systems are effective in different climates. The book concludes with an analysis illustrating the relevance of crop responses to environment to plant breeding. The practical examples in this book, some of them pulled from Dr. Hall's research, show your students the principles provided by Crop Response to Environment can be used in developing improved crop production systems.

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By Glenn on December 5, 2012Format: HardcoverI read Crop Responses to Environment as a graduate student. Prof. Hall explains the physiology behind traits that confer crop tolerance and susceptibility to environmental stresses. Very useful for plant biologists and ecologists.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0849310288
• ISBN 13: 9780849310287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248