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Plants under stress : biochemistry, physiology, and ecology and their application to plant improvement
- Title
- Plants under stress : biochemistry, physiology, and ecology and their application to plant improvement / edited by Hamlyn G. Jones, T.J. Flowers, M.B. Jones.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 257 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society for Experimental Biology seminar series ; 39
- Uniform Title
- Seminar series (Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain)) ; 39.
- Subject
- Crops > Effect of stress on > Congresses
- Plants > Effect of stress on > Congresses
- Plant breeding > Congresses
- Crops > Effect of stress on
- Plant breeding
- Plants > Effect of stress on
- Kongress
- Pflanzen
- Pflanzenzüchtung
- Stress
- Stressreaktion
- Plantes > Amélioration génétique
- Plantes, effets des contraintes de croissance sur les
- Kongreß
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Lancaster (Lancashire, 1988)
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: some terminology and common mechanisms / H.G. Jones and M.B. Jones -- The impact of environmental stresses on ecosystems / F.I. Woodward -- Whole-plant responses to stress in natural and agricultural systems / J.P. Grime -- Photosynthesis and gas exchange / G.D. Farquhar [and others] -- Regulation of growth and development of plants growing with a restricted supply of water / R.E. Sharp and W.J. Davies -- Stresses, membranes and cell walls / R.G. Wyn Jones and J. Pritchard -- Desiccation injury, anhydrobiosis and survival / G.R. Stewart -- Molecular biology: application to studies of stress tolerance / S.G. Hughes, J.A. Bryant and N. Smirnoff -- Environmental control of gene expression and stress proteins in plants / Tuan-Hua David Ho and M.M. Sachs -- Plant tissue and protoplast culture: applications to stress physiology and biochemistry / D.W. Rains -- Breeding methods for drought resistance / A. Blum -- Selection for physiological character -- examples from breeding for salt tolerance / A.R. Yeo and T.J. Flowers -- Prospects for improving crop production in stressful environments / R.B. Austin.
- ISBN
- 0521344239
- 9780521344234
- LCCN
- 88036689
- OCLC
- ocm18960839
- 18960839
- SCSB-9086453
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library