Plant and Crop Modelling
J. H. M. Thornley(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 1. April 1990
Book
Hardback
684 pages
978-0-19-854160-8 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this book is to present the ideas, methods, and recent applications of mathematics to plant and crop physiology, so that plant scientists may learn how to express their physiological ideas mathematically. The text is designed for self-study with exercises with worked solutions. In many areas of biology it is now accepted that mathematics is often the appropriate language for describing ideas and hypotheses quantitatively. Mathematics and computers allow us to investigate the consequences of complexity in a way that has not hitherto been possible. Models can be constructed that provide a valuable understanding of complex systems, and sometimes lead to tools for delivering technology, making recent research results available to those concerned with the environment and farm management.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
180 line drawings, bibliography, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-854160-8 (9780198541608)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 General topics: dynamic modelling; some subjects of general importance; transport processes; temperature effects of plant and crop processes; growth functions; biological switches; development. Part 2 Plant and crop physiology: light relations in canopies; leaf photosynthesis; whole-plant respiration and growth energetics; biochemical and chemical approaches to plant growth efficiency; partitioning during vegetative growth; transpiration by a crop canopy; crop water relations; crop responses; root growth. Part 3 Plant morphology: branching; phyllotaxis.