Top selling professional titles that have enjoyed significant cloth edition sales are now available for the first time in low-priced paperback, through the Wiley Professional Paperback Series.This new paperback series will regularly publish some of our most popular titles in agriculture, architecture, chemistry, engineering and technology, earth and environmental sciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics and statistics. More information on each of these titles can be found in this catalog (see pages indicated). These titles join those published in the series earlier this year (formerly known as the Wiley Science Paperback Series).As human activities multiply stressful conditions and as agriculture is forced into increasingly inhospitable areas, the need to understand the physiology of plants under stress has become more acute. This book discusses the full range of environmental stresses -- including those related to drought, temperature, nutrient, salt, irradiation, and allelochemicals, and explores plant responses to each.Examines stresses and how plants cope with them.-- Covers important issues such as breeding techniques and growth-regulating chemicals.-- Contains selected references for further reading and study.
- ISBN10 0471180564
- ISBN13 9780471180562
- Publish Date 1 November 1996
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 2 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 206
- Language English