Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

Lola Peñarrubia Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Valencia, Bur- jassot, Valencia, Spain Mohammad ...

Raymond M. Wheeler National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Michael E. Wisniewski Appalachia ...

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1 Time, Plant Growth, Respiration, and Temperature Bruce N. Smith, Lyneen C. Harris, V. Wallace McCarlie, Dorothy L. Stradling, ...

riety of conditions [6]. Plants may play a role in modifying their environment and climate [7]. In addition, plants have complex ...

For the anabolic reaction (4) the initial system is lower in energy and higher in entropy than the fi- nal system. In symbolic n ...

is placed in the calorimeter ampule with the tissue. Again, a 15–20 min thermal equibration is necessary, followed by measuremen ...

Chemical defences against free radicals include compounds that are strong reductants such as glu- tathione, phenols, flavonoids, ...

crease with warmer temperatures (Figure 1) [32]. Growth rates of other cultivars are predicted to be nonexistent or very low at ...

Artemisia tridentataNutt. or big sagebrush is one of the most widespread and economically im- portant shrubs in western North Am ...

in common gardens under natural conditions and in the laboratory with different levels of moisture. Metabolic heat rate and resp ...

TIME, PLANT GROWTH, RESPIRATION, TEMPERATURE 9 Figure 3 Leaf tissue was cut from Distichlis spicata(L.) Greene growing on a salt ...

D. Manganese Methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT) is currently added to gasoline to replace tetraethyl lead as an ...

BN Smith, CM Lytle. Air pollutants. In: MNV Prasad, ed. Plant Ecophysiology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997, pp 375–392. ...

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2 Role of Temperature in the Physiology of Crop Plants: Pre- and Postharvest William Grierson University of Florida, Lake Alfred ...

C. Definitions Temperature Temperature per se does not need definition. Not all the work cited, however, deals with the temper ...

plants, given sufficient time under suitable conditions, can adapt themselves to freezing temperatures, and some cannot. This di ...

trition experiments in which air temperature is ignored. This relationship was confirmed in a controlled environment experiment ...

Freezing of Plant Tissues As depicted in older texts, freeze injury and freeze resistance were simply explained: in freeze-sus ...