Sugarcane : : physiology, biochemistry, and functional biology / / edited by Paul H. Moore, Frederik C. Botha.

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Place / Publishing House:Ames, Iowa : : Wiley-Blackwell,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (765 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
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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.