Plant Growth and Environment

Author: Zou Liangdong
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Publish Date: 2008-04-29
Features: Plant Growth and Environment is one of the achievements of the teaching reform project for higher vocational and technical colleges in the new century. This book is a for the national excellent course Plant Growth and Environment and a product of the teaching reform project for higher vocational and technical colleges in the new century. In accordance with the requirements of vocational education teaching reform, this book follows the principles of serving the major and being "sufficient," fully integrating the content of five courses—botany, plant physiology, soil science, fertilizer science, and agricultural meteorology—to form a new structural system. The book is divided into three parts and thirteen chapters. Part 1 discusses the material basis of plant growth and development, including plant cells, plant tissues and organs, photosynthesis, respiration, and the metabolism and transport of organic substances within plants. Part 2 covers plant growth and environmental regulation, including the relationships between plant growth and soil environment, water, temperature, nutrients, and climatic environment, as well as plant environmental stress physiology. Part 3 focuses on plant growth, development, and reproduction, including plant growth and development, plant reproduction, senescence, and abscission. This book is suitable for students of agricultural planting majors in higher vocational and technical colleges, as well as for students in five-year vocational education and adult education programs.