Ecophysiology and Allied Disciplines

Abstract

In order to manage both wild and cultivated plants for sustainable productivity it is necessary to have a basic understanding of the many factors involved in the interaction between the life cycle of a plant and the physical and biotic environments. It is the purpose of this chapter to provide those economic botanists sensu lato who are not specialists in physiology, anatomy, morphology and biochemistry, etc. with a very brief and elementary insight into some of the very many ways by which plants appear to react to and adapt to a particular environment.