Handbook of Agricultural Productivity

Volume I: Plant Productivity

Miloslav Rechcigl

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Année: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351089777
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Sciences biologiques
• Sous-sujet: Biologie

The greatest challenge of our time is to produce sufficient food ot keep pace with the rapidly growing population. In the opinion of experts, during the next 25 years there will be a need for as much food as was produced in the entire history of mankind to date. Of the various measures available, improvement in agricultural productivity is judged as the ultimate means of augmenting food production and supplies. In this Handbook, an international team of experts consider the most important factors affecting production of both crops and livestock. This Handbook is intended as a scientific guide to practitioners and students, as well as to researchers, who should find here stimulating ideas for further exploration.

INDEX

A

ABA, see Abscissic acid

Abelmaschasesculentus, I: 191

Abroma fragrans, I: 186

Abscissic acid

evaporative demand stress affecting, I: 364, 365

production in environmental change, I: 348

Acacia, I: 108

Acer negundo, see Box elder

Acerspecies, see Maple

Acer tulipae, I: 293

Acetaldehyde, II: 109

Acetic acid, II: 109

Acetone, II: 109

Acetylene, I: 355, 375

Acids, II: 109

Adenohypophysis, II: 56

Aeration, see Soil aeration

African swine fever, II: 321, 347

Agrobacterium, I: 291

Agropyron species, see Crested wheatgrass,; Western wheatgrass,; Wheatgrass

Agrostemma githago, see Corn cockle

Agros tis alba, I: 316

Agrostis canina, I: 186

Agrotis ípsilon, I: 296

Agrostis palustris, see Bentgrass

Agrostis tenuis, I: 186

Agrostis vulgaris, I: 186

Air pollution

affecting animals, II: 107, 140

beryllium as pollutant, II: 356

control of, II: 360

deposition of pollutants in animal resporatory tract, II: 111

effects of certain pollutants on vegetation, I: 352

fluoride as pollutant, I: 389—393;

II: 357

ionization of air for reduction of, II: 115

mercury as pollutant, II: 360

minor pollutants, I: 393

mixed gases, I: 393;

II: 108, 112, 140

oxidants other than ozone, I: 382

ozone as pollutant, I: 376—382

photochemical reactions forming pollutants, I: 376

plant as monitors, I: 350

pollutants, I: 376;

II: 354, 360

of animals’ environments, II: 108, 354

protection of plants against, I: 351

sources of, I: 375

sulfur dioxide as pollutant, I: 383—388;

II: 360

Alcohols, II: 109

Aletesacaulis, I: 186

Alfalfa, see also Herbage plants

air pollution and, I: 377, 381, 384—387, 390, 393

climate and, II: 272—273

crop rotation, I: 273—275, 279—281, 285—287, 289, 295, 297—299, 301

effect of temperature, I: 14

environmental stress, I: 352,...