The Growth of Bulbs
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The Growth of Bulbs

Applied aspects of the physiology of ornamental bulbous crop plant

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Growth of Bulbs

Applied aspects of the physiology of ornamental bulbous crop plant

About this book

The Growth of Bulbs: Applied Aspects of the Physiology of Ornamental Bulbous Crop Plants presents an account of ornamental bulbs as plants and as crops, with emphasis on scientific aspects of bulb growing, bulb treatment, and bulb forcing. While the account is biased towards British bulb growing, it also introduces bulb growing in other parts of the world, especially in the Netherlands, the United States, Israel, and Japan. The book's opening chapter discusses the origins of bulbous plants, how they became important as crop plants, and how the various forms now widely grown had been developed. This is followed by separate chapters on bulb types, structure, morphology, development and periodicity; bulb growth and productivity; flower initiation and differentiation; and the storage of bulbs. Subsequent chapters cover bulb physiology and metabolism, bulb disorders, and bulb pests and diseases. The book concludes with reflections on the form of the plant of the future.

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Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780125854504
eBook ISBN
9780323155861

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. The Growth of Bulbs: Applied aspects of the physiology of ornamental bulbous crop plant
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Editor's Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Bulbs as crop plants: their origin and present distribution
  8. Chapter 2. Bulb structure, morphology, development and periodicity
  9. Chapter 3. Growth and productivity
  10. Chapter 4. The initiation and growth of bulbs
  11. Chapter 5. Flower initiation and differentiation
  12. Chapter 6. The storage of bulbs
  13. Chapter 7. Post-storage development
  14. Chapter 8. Physiology and metabolism
  15. Chapter 9. Physiological disorders
  16. Chapter 10. Pests and diseases of bulbs
  17. Chapter 11. The future
  18. Author Index
  19. Subject Index

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