With contributions from over 70 international experts, this reference provides
comprehensive coverage of plant physiological stages and processes under both
normal and stressful conditions. It emphasizes environmental factors, climatic
changes, developmental stages, and growth regulators as well as linking plant
and crop physiology to the production of food, feed, and medicinal compounds.
Offering over 300 useful tables, equations, drawings, photographs, and
micrographs, the book covers cellular and molecular aspects of plant and crop
physiology, plant and crop physiological responses to heavy metal concentration
and agrichemicals, computer modeling in plant physiology, and more.