Author: Gutschick, Vincent P.
Title: A Functional Biology of Crop Plants
Description: Portland, Timber Press, (1987). orig. boards, dustwrapper. x,230 pp, 24x16cm,. Textual charts & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Functional Biology & Plant Strategies: Functional Biology; The Requirements on Plants in Their Growth & Function; The Abiotic Environment:Plant Autecology; Adaptive Strategies; Four Principles of Adaptive Strategies; The Calculation of Energetic Costs & Benefits; Toward a Quantification of Risk & Risk Management; When & How Fast to Deploy Strategies; Effectiveness & Limitations of Strategic Adaptations; Additional Strategic Considerations for the Biotic Environment; Mineral Nutrition: Essential Elements in the Ecosystem & Their Availability to Plants; Four Types of Challenges; Consequences of Nutritional Challenges; Adaptive Responses, Their Costs & Benefits; Photosynthesis: CO2, Photons, &Their Availability to the Plant; Energy & Soil Resource Uses: Costs & Benefits; Challenges; Consequences of Challenges to Photosynthesis; Adaptive Responses, Their Costs & Benefits; Water Relations: Challenges; Consequences of Challenges; Adaptive Strategies, Their Costs & Benefits; Integrative Processes: New Features in Long-term Coordination of All Resource Uses; Reproduction; Germination; Morphogenesis, Especially Photomorphogenesis; Control of Biotic Interactions.

Keywords: Botany, Functional Biology, Crop Plants, Agriculture, Agricultural, Adaptation, Mineral Nutrition, Photosynthesis, Plant Physiology