Crop physiology and productivity

MH Jeuffroy, B Ney - Field Crops Research, 1997 - Elsevier
… Partitioning between reproductive and vegetative organs is dependent on the plant growth
Crop productivity in relation to intercception of photosynthetically active radiation. Agric. For. …

[HTML][HTML] Rhizosphere biology and crop productivity—a review

M Watt, JA Kirkegaard, JB Passioura - Soil Research, 2006 - CSIRO Publishing
… This work provides a good example of the importance of examining the intact soil/root
system in the field when trying to unravel puzzling plant growth responses, as well as the …

Increasing crop productivity to meet global needs for feed, food, and fuel

MD Edgerton - Plant physiology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… Marker-assisted breeding and biotechnology traits are relatively new technologies for the
improvement of productivity. Incorporation of these technologies into crop improvement …

Heavy metal stress and crop productivity

M Shahid, S Khalid, G Abbas, N Shahid… - Crop production and …, 2015 - Springer
… , plant growth, and photosynthesis. At the cellular level, heavy metal toxicity reduces crop
productivity … Under heavy metal stress, plants have numerous defense mechanisms to manage …

Bio-fertilizers as key player in enhancing soil fertility and crop productivity: A review

JU Itelima, WJ Bang, IA Onyimba, MD Sila, OJ Egbere - 2018 - dspace.unijos.edu.ng
… and water uptake, plant growth and plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic factors. These
potential biological fertilizers would play a key role in productivity and sustainability of soil and …

Comparisons of plant productivity

DF Westlake - Biological Reviews, 1963 - Wiley Online Library
growth of the organisms in a community. Similarly, many economists are interested in the
productivity of the plants … increasing this by the use of new plants and new methods. Normal agri…

Plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria: drought stress alleviators to ameliorate crop production in drylands

M Kaushal, SP Wani - Annals of Microbiology, 2016 - Springer
… Drylands are known for being a drought stressed environment, which is an alarming
constraint to crop productivity. To rescue plant growth in such stressful conditions, plant-growth-…

Application of GIS and crop growth models in estimating water productivity

AVM Ines, AD Gupta, R Loof - Agricultural Water Management, 2002 - Elsevier
crop growth simulation models coupled with geographic information system (GIS) to analyze
water productivity, … to study water productivity in spatial and temporal dimensions. Three …

Nitrogen metabolism and crop productivity

FE Below - Handbook of plant and crop physiology, 2001 - taylorfrancis.com
… to plant growth, especially roots [58], it seems unlikely that passive NH3 absorption is a
major source of N for plant growth. Therefore, the bulk of ammoniacal N absorbed by plants is …

[HTML][HTML] Plant productivity in response to LED lighting

GD Massa, HH Kim, RM Wheeler, CA Mitchell - HortScience, 2008 - journals.ashs.org
… for plant growth, one challenge in designing an optimum plant lighting system is to determine
wavelengths essential for specific crops. … of plants has a large effect on crop productivity. …