Sugarcane : physiology, biochemistry, and functional biology
โ Scribed by Paul H Moore; F C Botha
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 765
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content: Sugarcane: the crop, the plant, and domestication --
Anatomy and morphology --
Developmental stages (phenology) --
Ripening and postharvest deterioration --
Mineral nutrition of sugarcane --
Photosynthesis in sugarcane --
Respiration as a competitive sink for sucrose accumulation in sugarcane culm: perspectives and open questions --
Nitrogen physiology of sugarcane --
Water relations and cell expansion of storage tissue --
Water, transpiration, and gas exchange --
Transport proteins in plant growth and development --
Phloem transport of resources --
Cell walls: structure and biogenesis --
Hormones and growth regulators --
Flowering --
Stress physiology: abiotic stresses --
Mechanisms of resistance to pests and pathogens in sugarcane and related crop species --
Source and sink physiology --
Biomass and bioenergy --
Crop models --
Sugarcane yields and yield-limiting processes --
Systems biology and metabolic modeling --
Sugarcane genetics and genomics --
Sugarcane biotechnology: axenic culture, gene transfer, and transgene expression.
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