An introduction to the physiology of crop yield /

Hay, Robert K. M. 1946

An introduction to the physiology of crop yield / Robert K.M. Hay, Andrew J. Walker - Harlow, Essex, England : New York : Longman Scientific & Technical ; Wiley, c1989. - xvi, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents
1 Introduction

Part one Fundamental principles of crop physiology
2. Interception of solar radiation by crop canopy
3. Photosynthetic efficiency: photosynthesis and photo respiration
4. Photosynthetic efficiency: respiration
5. Dry matter partitioning

Part two Crop case histories
6 Temperate cereals
7. potatoes
8 Grassland

Part three Crop simulation
9 Mathematical models and crop physiology

Includes Bibliography and index (p. 257-29).

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Crops--Physiology.
Crop yields

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