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Description: Discussing the latest processes involved in researching yield generation, Wheat: Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination will help you design various types of crop production systems for maximum yield. Featuring information on developing high-yielding, long-input, and quality-oriented systems, this book offers you both physiological and ecological approaches that will help you understand the crop as well as increase its production.
Discussing aspects of wheat growth for specific regions around the world, Wheat: Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination provides you with information that will improve the size and quality of your crops, including:
• How temperature, vernalization, and the photoperiod affect the development of wheat
• Using the correct amount of nitrogen fertilizers for wheat crops
• An explanation of the reproduction and nitrogen cycle of wheat
• How elements and conditions such as lipids, proteins, nitrogen, and climate enhance grain quality
• Estimating and determining optimal sowing dates
• Examining factors that may affect wheat yield-density relationships, such as planting arrangement and date of sowing
• Preventing seed decay and examining effects of mildews and leaf blights
• Examining historical trends of the crop to see what further research need to be done
You’ll also receive information on the genetic gains in wheat research that are improving the physiological traits and numerical components of this essential grain. Within Wheat, you’ll find data and methods from international experts in the field that will improve the yield and growth of the world’s most important crop.
Contents: Part I: Wheat Physiology • An Introduction to the Physiological-Ecological Analysis of Wheat Yield • Wheat Development • Physiological and Numerical Components of Wheat Yield • Nitrogen As Determinant of Wheat Growth and Yield • Grain Quality and Its Physiological Determinants • Part II: Wheat Ecology • Effects of Sowing Date and the Determination of Optimum Sowing Date • Plant Density and Distribution As Modifiers of Growth and Yield • Wheat Yield As Affected by Weeds • Wheat Growth, Yield, and Quality As Affected by Insect Herbivores • Wheat Yield As Affected by Diseases • Wheat As a Polyculture Component • Part III: Wheat Production Systems • Wheat Production in the GreatPlains of North America • Wheat Cropping in Australia • Wheat Production in Mediterranean Environments • Wheat Production Systems of the Pampas • Part IV: Breeding to Further Raise Wheat Yields • Genetic Gains in Wheat Yield and Associated Physiological Changes During the Twentieth Century • Physiological Traits That Increase the Yield Potential of Wheat • Breeding Hybrid Wheat for Low-Yielding Environments • Actual and Potential Contributions of Biotechnology to Wheat BreedingISBN - 9788130902333
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Pages : 528
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