Wheat: Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination

摘要: Contents About the Editors * Contributors Preface Part One: Wheat Physiology Chapter 1. An Introduction to Physiological-Ecological Analysis of Yield Worldwide Importance A Niche for This Book Objectives 2. Development Dynamics Initiation and Appearance Vegetative Reproductive Organs Effects Major Factors on Duration Developmental Phases 3. Physiological Numerical Components Affecting Kernal Number Individual Weight Summary Strategies Future Improvement 4. Nitrogen As Determinant Growth in Soil Metabolism Plant at Crop Level Optimization Fertilization Water Supply Assimilation 5. Grain Quality Its Determinants What Makes So Special?--The Proteins The Nonprotein How Do Grains Grow? Is Result Interactions Between Conclusions II: Ecology 6. Sowing Date Determination Optimum Establishment Maturation Harvest Experimental Estimation Sow Dates England Australia Other Regions Optimal 7. Density Distribution Modifiers Ecophysiological Basis Response Effect Resources Arrangement Mathematical Relationships Concluding Remarks 8. Affected by Weeds Losses Competition Justification Weed Removal Phytotoxin Herbicides 9. Growth, Yield, Insect Herbivores Responses Herbivory Functional Classification Key Pests Population-Level 10. Disease Processes Interrupted Pathogens Diversion Foodstuffs Abnormal Uses (Bunt Smuts) Scab--An Exception 11. a Polyculture Component (Santiago J. Sarandon) Measure Intercropping Performance Mixtures Diseases Resource Use with Species Evaluation Genotypes Research Needs III: Production Systems 12. Great Plains North America Description Technological That Have Increased Yields Century Transformation 13. Cropping Climate Soils Historic Changes Recent Current Situation Farming Challenges Productivity Gain Extension Perspectives 14. Mediterranean Environments Rotations Germplasm 15. Pampas Soils: Constraints IV: Breeding Further Raise 16. Genetic Gains Associated During Twentieth Consequences Height Related Traits Biomass: Partitioning Improvements Phosphorus Economies Old Modern Cultivars Conclusion 17. Increase Potential Identifying Promising Selecting 18. Hybrid Low-Yielding Genotype-Stress Interaction Profile Diversity Paramount Intrapopulation Selection Within Male Pool Heterosis Population X Row Width Stability, Ideal 19. Actual Contributions Biotechnology Molecular Markers, Maps, Their Application Introgression "Alien" Genes into Chromosome Engineering Author Index Subject Reference Notes Included