Sugarcane : physiology, biochemistry, and functional biology /

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Other Authors: Moore, Paul H., Botha, F. C. (Frederik Coenraad), 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
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Table of 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.