Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

DN Sen, S Mohammed, PK Kasera. Some ecological observations on plants of Indian desert. J Indian Bot Soc (Platinum Jubilee Vol) ...

D Aspinall, LG Paleg. Proline accumulation: physiological aspects. In: G Paleg, D Aspinall, eds. The Physiol- ogy and Biochemis ...

MA Khan, IA Ungar. Effect of salinity on seed germination of Triglochin maritimaunder various temperature regimes. Great Basin ...

V Venkatesalu, RR Kumar, KP Chellappan. Growth and mineral distribution of Sesuvium portulacastrumL., a salt marsh halophyte un ...

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29 Role of Physiology in Improving Crop Adaptation to Abiotic Stresses in the Tropics: The Case of Common Bean and Tropical Fora ...

tems, allowing plants to adapt to and withstand wide environmental variations. Research on physiolog- ical aspects of crop adapt ...

available to breeders and can produce results much more rapidly than hybridization in plants with long generation times. The thi ...

ing for yield. Furthermore, stress tolerance at one developmental stage does not always confer tolerance at another stage. In ad ...

crop yield will play a crucial role in the future. The advances in agricultural biotechnology have revolu- tionized the genetic ...

third most important caloric source after cassava and maize. Beans are also nutritionally important in Central America, Mexico, ...

Research was conducted to examine the physiological basis for the lower productivity of the large- seeded Andean genotypes [76,7 ...

Brazil) have identified several heat-tolerant lines (e.g., HF 465-63-2). Their leading line, IPA 7, is not only heat tolerant bu ...

tified, such as BAT 477, A 195, and BAT 1289 [112]. The superior adaptation of BAT 477 to water deficits was attributed to dehyd ...

As mentioned before, bean cultivars show great diversity in phenology, and this is a major factor de- termining yield potential ...

ficiency on plant growth is reduced leaf expansion so that relatively more dry matter is apportioned to the roots than to the sh ...

Several theoretical and empirical lines of evidence indicate that root architecture (the three-dimen- sional shape of the root s ...

Another population of RILs was developed from the cross BAT 881 G 21212 to study yield po- tential under low-P conditions [184] ...

that leaf longevity is an important factor in leaf N use efficiency but that genetic variation for shoot ar- chitecture is not i ...

three green bean cultivars. Among the three cultivars, the Tender Improved variety was the least and the Slim Green variety the ...