By the year 2000, the most critical world problem--as things stand now--will be sustaining the human race. The quality and the availability of food will continue to be central to this issue. However, since the beginning of the final quarter of the twentieth century, few attempts have been made to organize and integrate information applying our knowledge of the regulation of plant growth to the enhancement of the world's yield of food, forage, fiber, and other useful plants. It is appropriate, therefore, to approach a solution to future human needs by combining an area of basic science with a defined and needed application of it. The purpose of this NATO Advanced Study Institute--Plant Regulation and World Agriculture--is reflected in the content of this volume. It covers a wide range of physiological processes including photosynthesis, translocation, seed germination, source­ sink relationships, water relationships, flowering, fruiting, and adaptations to stress. The identification, chemistry, and bio­ chemistry of naturally occurring as well as known and new synthetic plant growth regulators are discussed in relation to productivity, growth retardation, and herbicidal activity. Other topics include plant breeding and genetics, tissue culture and its use in the improvement of and the increase in plant varieties, and ecological implications in agriculture. Chapter titles in bold print in the Table of Contents designate keynote presentations for the three major subtopics in Section II.

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NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Regulation and World Agriculture (1978 : İzmir, Turkey)

Springer London, Limited

Plenum Press

NATO advanced study institutes series, v. 22, New York :, ©1979

NATO advanced study institutes series, 22, Boston, MA, 1979

Nato Science Series A:, Life Sciences, Boston, MA, 1979

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979, 2012

United States, United States of America

Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2013

May 06, 2012

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Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Food Plants and Plant Hormones in Our Future....Pages 1-10
Agricultural Production--Research Imperatives for the Future....Pages 11-33
Root Hormones and Overground Development....Pages 35-47
The Role of Hormones in Promoting and Developing Growth to Select New Varieties in Sterile Culture....Pages 49-62
Somatic Hybridization and Genetic Manipulation in Plants....Pages 63-84
Genetic Herbicide Resistance: Projections on Appearance in Weeds and Breeding for it in Crops....Pages 85-109
The Problem of Plant Breeders....Pages 111-128
Temperature Responses and Yield in Temperate Crops....Pages 129-139
Sink-Source Relationships in Fruit Trees....Pages 141-153
Potential for Regulation of Plant Growth and Development....Pages 155-164
Chemical Plant Growth Regulation in World Agriculture....Pages 165-206
Regulation of Flower Induction and Fruit Development....Pages 207-219
The Role and Effectiveness of Stimulative-Inhibitive Regulators on Early and Late Blooming of Fruit Trees....Pages 221-236
Structure-Activity Relationships of Some New Growth Retardants....Pages 237-249
Plant Growth Retardants: Present and Future Use in Food Production....Pages 251-277
Possibilities for Optimalization of Plant Nutrition by New Agrochemical Substances--Especially in Cereals....Pages 279-307
Growth Regulators and Assimilate Partition....Pages 309-317
Stomatal Aperture and the Senescence of Leaves....Pages 319-326
Modern Chromatographic Methods for the Identification and Quantification of Plant Growth Regulators and Their Application to Studies of the Changes in Hormonal Substances in Winter Wheat During Acclimation to Cold Stress Conditions....Pages 327-377
A Proposal for the Application of Growth Regulators in Turkey in Relation to Agricultural Potential....Pages 379-388
Creative Botany: Its Role in Meeting the Major Temperate and Tropical Agricultural Problems of the Future....Pages 389-394
Preconditioning of Seeds to Improve Performance....Pages 395-413
Water Stress: A Challenge for the Future of Agriculture....Pages 415-455
Water Stress and its Implications (Irrigation) in the Future of Agriculture....Pages 457-473
Biomass, Present and Future....Pages 475-478
Reflections on C 4 Photosynthesis and Plant Productivity....Pages 479-489
Agriculture in the Year 2000: A Script for Survival....Pages 491-509
Agricultural Management Strategies, Initiatives, and Goals for Survival....Pages 511-530
Back Matter....Pages 531-575

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