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1 online resource (765 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sugarcane: the crop, the plant, and domestication -- Anatomy and morphology -- Developmental stages (phenology) -- Ripening and postharvest deterioration -- Mineral nutrition of sugarcane -- Photosynthesis in sugarcane -- Respiration as a competitive sink for sucrose accumulation in sugarcane culm: perspectives and open questions -- Nitrogen physiology of sugarcane -- Water relations and cell expansion of storage tissue -- Water, transpiration, and gas exchange -- Transport proteins in plant growth and development -- Phloem transport of resources -- Cell walls: structure and biogenesis -- Hormones and growth regulators -- Flowering -- Stress physiology: abiotic stresses -- Mechanisms of resistance to pests and pathogens in sugarcane and related crop species -- Source and sink physiology -- Biomass and bioenergy -- Crop models -- Sugarcane yields and yield-limiting processes -- Systems biology and metabolic modeling -- Sugarcane genetics and genomics -- Sugarcane biotechnology: axenic culture, gene transfer, and transgene expression. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Sugarcane.
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Sugarcane -- Physiology.
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Botanical chemistry.
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Botany.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Paul H.
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Botha, F. C. (Frederik Coenraad), 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sugarcane : physiology, biochemistry, and functional biology. Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 xxii, 693 pages, 47 pages of color plates 9780813821214 (DNAL)1130118 (DLC) 2013029210 |
| ISBN |
9780813821214 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781118771198 (electronic bk.) |
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