Growth and Growth Substances / Wachstum und Wuchsstoffe

Growth and Growth Substances / Wachstum und Wuchsstoffe
Author:
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1357
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783642489365

Der Gesamtenergieaufwand fUr einen WachstumsprozeB ist einmal yom Ge samtbetrag der zu leistenden Arbeit, zum anderen von dem Nutzeffektabhangig, mit dem die Energie verwertet wird. Die erste GroBe variiert vor aHem bei den verschiedenen Formen des Wachstums (s. oben), die zweite wird wesentlich yom Entwicklungszustand des wachsenden Systems und von den AuBenbedingungen bestimmt. Prinzipiell konnen wir erwarten, daB die Zellen oder Gewebe wahrend des Wachstums eine Atmungssteigerung gegeniiber dem stationaren Zustand zeigen, wenn wir auch von vornherein keine einfache und gleichbleibende Abhangigkeit von Atmungs-und Wachstumsintensitat vermuten diirfen. Eine prazise Ermitt lung dieses Atmungsmehrbetrages aber ist auBerordentlich schwierig, zumeist sogar unmoglich. Er ergabe sich aus der Differenz zwischen der Gesamtatmung und der Grundatmung ("Erhaltungsatmung"), setzte also die Kenntnis auch der zweiten GroBe voraus. Die Atmung einer Zelle vor Wachstumsbeginn (etwa der unbefruchteten Eizelle) oder nach Beendigung des Wachstums (z. B. einer aus differenzierten Gewebszelle) wird von der Grundatmung der wachsenden Zelle mehr oder weniger weit, praktisch immer aber in unbestimmbarem AusmaB ab weichen, zumal zu der Erhaltungsatmung meist eine zusatzliche "Funktions atmung" kommt. Es ist deshalb auch nicht verwunderlich, daB die Gesamt atmungsintensitat wachsender Zellen oder Gewebe derjenigen ausdifferenzierter nicht immer iiberlegen, gelegentlich sogar unterlegen ist, wie wir sehen werden. Wir miissen uns dies vor Augen halten, wenn wir z. B. iiber die Tragweite der Vergleiche zwischen den Atmungsintensitaten der verschiedenen Zonen eines wachsenden Organs urteilen wollen.

Bioactive Compounds in Agricultural Soils

Bioactive Compounds in Agricultural Soils
Author: Lech Wojciech Szajdak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319431072

This volume looks at the impact that different cropping systems and tillage have on soil’s biologically active substances. It considers how phytotoxins accumulate and can inhibit the development of cultivated plants. Coverage explores the continuous cropping of rye, crop rotation, no tillage, and conventional tillage. It offers a comprehensive, comparative approach to allelopathic plant-soil interactions. The authors focus on free and bounded biologically active substances such as amino acids, auxins, humic and fulvic acids, transient radicals, and enzymes in light sand soils fertilized with different mineral and organic fertilizers. The chapters address fundamental questions relevant to the environmental challenges we face today and will deal with in the future. The results involve asking basic questions motivated by soil's chemical and biochemical processes. The answers will lead to the improvement of the quality of soil’s organic matter, which, in turn, can lead to increased crop yields. Readers will come to understand the relationship between ecological processes and environmental change on individual levels of biocomplexity as well as on systems in their entirety. The title is ideal for students and teachers for laboratory practical classes. Soil scientists, biochemists, chemists, plant ecophysiologists, “Natural Products” organic chemists, and other environmental scientists and specialists will also find it useful.

Hormonal Regulation of Development II

Hormonal Regulation of Development II
Author: T.K. Scott
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642677312

This is the second of the set of three volumes in the Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, that will cover the area of the hormonal regulation of plant growth and development. The overall plan for the set assumes that this area of plant physiology is sufficiently mature for a review of current knowl edge to be organized in terms of unifying principles and processes. Reviews in the past have generally treated each class of hormone individually, but this set of volumes is subdivided according to the properties common to all classes. Such an organization permits the examination of the hypothesis that differing classes of hormones, acting according to common principles, are determinants of processes and phases in plant development. Also in keeping with this theme, a plant hormone is defined as a compound with the properties held in common by the native members of the recognized classes of hormone. Current knowledge of the hormonal regulation of plant development is grouped so that the three volumes consider advancing levels of organizational complexity, viz: molecular and subcellular; cells, tissues, organs, and the plant as an organized whole; and the plant in relation to its environment.

Plant Growth Substances 1988

Plant Growth Substances 1988
Author: Richard P. Pharis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642745458

The 13th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances was held from the 17th to the 26th July, 1988 in Calgary, Alberta Canada under the auspices of the IPGSA (International Plant Growth Substances Association) and the University of Calgary. Over 550 participants from allover the world attended, along with 70 Associates and 25 University of Calgary graduate students who assisted in audiovisual presentations when not attending the scientific sessions. Fine weather prevailed, as was usual for summer on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies, and participants arriving early visited the famous Calgary Stampede. A hosted buffet opened the Conference on Sunday evening. On Wednesday evening, following an afternoon field trip into the mountains of the Kananaskis Valley, the IPGSA traditional banquet became a western barbecue on Richards' Ghost River Ranch in the foothills of the Rockies, with folk and country and western music provided by the Great Western Orchestra. The fine Alberta weather continued through the weekend, and the Conference ended with a field trip to Sun shine Meadows, a World Heritage Site in Banff National Park.