Principles of tropical agronomy /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York :
CABI Pub.,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Contexts
- 1.1. boundaries, scale and scope of agronomy
- 1.2. broad dominance of climate
- 1.3. influence of soil and topography
- 1.4. Climates, crops, soils, people
- 1.5. Agronomic experiment and analysis
- Pt. I. Resource Flows and Currencies
- 2. Solar Radiation
- 2.1. solar spectrum and plant processes
- 2.2. fate of radiation in crop systems
- 2.3. Conclusions
- 3. Water
- 3.1. hydrological cycle
- 3.2. Soil water energy
- 3.3. Plant water energy
- 3.4. Evaporation
- 3.5. fate of water in crop systems
- 3.6. Conclusions
- Pt. II. Essential Choices: Genotype, Timing, Configuration
- 4. Genotype (What?)
- 4.1. Evolution and genetic manipulation
- 4.2. Characteristics of the main crop types
- 4.3. Genetic modification within species
- 4.4. Conclusions
- 5. Timing (When?)
- 5.1. Characteristics of timing in crops
- 5.2. Development and resource capture
- 5.3. Environmental control of timing
- 5.4. Regulation of timing by management and choice of cultivar
- 5.5. Conclusions
- 6. Configuration (How?)
- 6.1. Plant population
- 6.2. Mixed cropping
- 6.3. Calculating the performance of intercrops
- 6.4. Conclusions
- Pt. III. Integration
- 7. Manipulating fluxes
- 7.1. simple frame of reference
- 7.2. Empirical input-yield responses
- 7.3. Understanding the input-yield response
- 7.4. Scale and integration: extending the principles
- 8. Synthesis
- 8.1. Some major developments in agricultural research
- 8.2. Assessing the potential of underutilized crops: a case study of bambara groundnut
- 8.3. status and contribution of agronomy.