Water Relations of Plants

by Paul J. Kramer

Book Overview

This book attemps to describe the importance of water by describing the factors that control the plant water balance and show how they affect the physiological process that determines the quanity and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0124250408
• ISBN13: 9780124250406
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 489 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Water Relations of Plants

Except from book's Preface: "The importance of an understanding of the water relations of plants is indicated by the ecological and physiological importance of water. Not only is the distribution of vegetation over the earth's surface controlled chiefly by the availability of water, but crop yields are more dependent on an adequate supply of water than on any other single factor. This book atempts to explain the importanceof water by describing the factors that control the plant water balance and showing how they affect the physiological processes that determine tha quantity and quality of growth. It is intended for students, teachers, and investigators in both basic and applied plant science, and it should be useful as a reference to botanists, agronomists, foresters, horticulturists, soil scientists, and even laymen with an interest in plant water relations. As attempt has been made to present the information in terms intelligible to all fields of plant science. If the treatment of some topics seems inadequate to specialists in those areas, they are reminded that the book was not written for specialists in soil or plant water relations, but for those plant scientists, upper-level graduates, and graduate students who need a general introduction to the whole field."