Basic Growth Analysis Plant growth analysis for beginners /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1990.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1990. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9117-6 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction
- Growth
- Plant growth
- Plant growth analysis
- ‘Classical’ and ‘functional’ approaches
- Harvesting technique
- Units
- Notation
- Computing, mathematics, statistics
- Concepts and levels
- 2 Absolute growth rates
- Absolute growth rate in size (AGR)
- Absolute grówth rate in number
- Absolute growth rate in populations
- Concluding remarks
- 3 Relative growth rates
- Relative growth rate (RGR)
- Other relative growth rates
- Intrinsic rate of population increase
- Relative growth rates in biotechnology
- Concluding remarks
- 4 Simple ratios
- Leaf area ratio (LAR)
- Specific leaf area (SLA)
- Leaf weight ratio (LWR)
- Leaf area index (LAI)
- Efficiency of energy conversion digestible energy
- Harvestable dry matter (harvest index)
- Harvestable protein
- Root-shoot allometric coefficient
- Other allometric coefficients
- Concluding remarks
- 5 Compounded growth rates
- Unit leaf rate (ULR)
- Other leaf efficiencies
- Crop growth rate (CGR)
- Specific absorption rate (SAR)
- Specific utilization rate (SUR)
- Sub-cellular efficiencies
- Unit production rate (UPR)
- Component production rate (CPR)
- Concluding remarks
- 6 Integral durations
- Leaf area duration (LAD)
- Biomass duration (BMD)
- Concluding remarks
- 7 Other independent variables
- 8 Interrelations
- In general
- Between ratios
- Between rates
- Within individual plants
- Within populations and communities
- An integrated scheme
- Concluding remarks
- 9 Questions and answers
- Tables of synopses
- References.