Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

Even normally hardy plants, such as oak trees, need time to adapt to winter temperatures. A Florida neighbor of this author grew ...

minated immediately on separation from the plant [41]. The lack of true seed dormancy severely limited the spread of many tropic ...

and transported for weeks on the heads of slaves [53]. Such aging of tropical seeds is not necessarily com- pletely temperature ...

carotenoid development took weeks, rather than days, hence was commercially unacceptable in a stem- end rot district. I still do ...

dener’s initials when immature will grow to maturity with the initials as prominent scars. Any such wounds inflicted on detached ...

throughout the ages, as with pre-Columbian Andean potato growers. In recent years, the native peoples of the Andean Altiplano ha ...

ported by the crop itself and rising as it grows [87]. Sometimes such plastic covering serves essentially for weed and soil mois ...

to the crop below. It is now known that the smoke particles are not in a size range suited to re- flect infrared emissions. It i ...

The literature abounds in such examples. Many mysteries would be elucidated if research work- ers routinely reported temperature ...

Other Plant Organs The urgency of immediate postharvest temperature and humidity control is related to the maturity of the pla ...

the same plant (tree) can be harvested year after year. In eight seasons (1974–75 to 1981–82), the same 28 trees were randomly p ...

[131] but for a wide variety of other products such as CI-sensitive Australian oranges [132] and zucchini squash [133]. D. Anoma ...

Long before modern instrumentation, sunspots could be studied with no more equipment than a piece of smoked glass, isinglass, or ...

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3 Crop Plant Responses to Rising CO 2 and Climate Change Joseph C. V. Vu and Leon Hartwell Allen, Jr. U.S. Department of Agricul ...

mospheric [CO 2 ] [14], understanding the mechanisms of photosynthesis acclimation to rising [CO 2 ] and other environmental str ...

aminotransferase, depending on the C 4 acid-decarboxylating mechanism of the C 4 plant [21]. These C 4 compounds are then transp ...