Plant Adaptation to Environmental Stress / Edition 1

by L. Fowden, T. Mansfield, J. Stoddart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412490002
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/30/1993
Series:	Series
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

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 subcellular to whole natural plant communities. Among the specific topics are climatic constraints on crop production, plants under salt and water stress, the effects of stress on the genome, and a dialectic approach to plant strategies. The 18 papers are from an October 1992 symposium (site not cited). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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