Plant and Crop Modelling: A Mathematical Approach to Plant and Crop Physiology - Hardcover

Thornley, John H. M.; Johnson, Ian R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198541600 ISBN 13: 9780198541608

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This book provides extensive information on the use of mathematics and computers in plant and crop physiology. It is intended to help plant physiologists describe complex biological ideas in new ways, especially through the use of mathematical models that can provide valuable insights while giving ideas and hypotheses a new quantitative definition.

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Review

Combin[es] considerable technical cleverness with creativity and the refreshing notion that science is a "common-sense -- Times Higher Educational Supplement

Exceptionally Scholarly volume. Logical and systematic. Authors have assembled a mass of mathematical material in an elegant layout. -- Agricultural Systems

I would strongly recommend it for reading and consultation by graduates and research workers. -- J. Exp. Botany

The authors' approach succeeds admirably, giving a thorough account of the mathematical toolbox available to researchers. -- Plant, Cell and Environment

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198541600
• ISBN 13: 9780198541608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 684