In the present scenario, with the increasing pressure posed by a rapidly growing population and diminishing per capita arable land and sources of irrigation, the role of plant physiologists in increasing agricultural and horticultural production by economically viable means, is significant. The present book incorporates articles covering latest information on the varied aspects of plant physiology, like diagnosis and management of physiological disorders in fruit production, physiology of vegetable crops, breeding crops for dryland conditions, effect of sulphur dioxide on growth, photosynthesis, antioxidant enzyme activities and so on. Topics such as abiotic stress, macronutrient stress and stress caused by pollutants also form part of the book. Articles on the effect of herbicides, growth hormones, photoquality on germination and physiology of rice and groundnut provide useful information for improving crop yield. This book would serve as a useful reference for teachers, scientists and planners in the fields of Botany, Plant Physiology, Agriculture, Forestry and related fields
This volume brings collectively much needed twenty-one review articles by fifty-one dedicated contributors for this volume assorted into five relevant sections, viz.
Creditably in this volume, over five important reviews belong to the field of Environmental Stresses besides covering significant areas of research.
... Earnshaw and M. J. Emes. 1989. Photosynthetic response of different varieties of wheat to high temperature. II. Effect of heat stress on photosynthetic electron transport. J. Exp. Bot., 40: 633-638. Schreiber, U. and J. A. Berry.
Conversely, this volume also highlights trace elements; plant functional research; physiological basis of yield variation; medicinal and aromatic plants.
ratio), higher percentage of the pegs forming mature pods (peg to pod ratio) and more number of branches and higher 100-kernel weight. In USA, the improvement in yields by newly evolved cultivars over the old one were mainly due to (i) ...
Creditably in this volume, over ten important reviews belong to the field of Environmental Stresses besides covering significant areas of research. In reality the treatise is prosperity for interdisciplinary exchange of information.
Ardently, this is also to focus upon excellent new ideas ensuring the best science done across the full extent of modern plant biology, in general, and plant physiology, in particular.
Greenwood, N.N. and A. Earnshaw. 1984. Chemistry of the Elements, Pergamon Press, London, UK. Hirsch, A.M. and J.G. Torrey. 1980. Ultrastructural changes in sunflower root cells in relation to boron deficiency and added auxin. Can.
... Dumas-Gaudot et al., 2000), (iv) Enhancement of certain hydrolytic enzyme activities (Dumas-Gaudot et al., 1996), (v) synthesis of protein of unknown function (Dumas-Gaudot et al., 2000), (vi) Elicitation of plant chitinase and B-1, ...
This volume would be enormously a prolific reference book for acquiring advanced knowledge by faculties, post-graduate and Ph.D. scholars in response to the innovative courses in Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Molecular Biology ...