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The physiology of crop yield, 2nd edn
The physiology of crop yield, 2nd edn.R HayJ. Porter2006.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. £34·99 (softback). 314 pp.
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The title and the introduction announce clearly that the book is about the physiological processes determining the yield. Crop physiology is said to be distinct in that it provides useful information about plants growing singly and in stands under controlled conditions or in the field.
There was a time when providing students with appropriate material for a crop physiology course of good level required an important work of selection and integration of information scattered through many different types of journals and textbooks. Now the situation has changed and there is a range of textbooks available focussing on crop physiology. The
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