Plant Adaptation to Environmental Stress

ISBN-13: 9780412490002 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 346 str.

Leslie Fowden; John Stoddart; Terry Mansfield

Opis

This book gives a broad coverage of the ways in which plants respond and adjust to environmental variables, and identifies unifying concepts spanning different levels of plant organization from the subcellular to the whole natural plant community. The 18 chapters were given as invited contributions at a meeting sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds in October 1992.

Recenzje

There is much to recommend this book ... a useful addition to a library concerned with agricultural aspects of stress - Journal of Agricultural Science; The reach of this book extends far beyond irrigation, and beyond agriculture - Irrigation science; Provides a broad coverage of how plants respond and adjust to both natural and anthrogenic environmental variables, and identifies unifying concepts spanning levels of organization from the subcellar to whole natural plant communities. - Book News - May 1994

Spis treści

Preface. Contributors. Community and ecosystem level. Whole plant responses. Metabolic and genetic responses.