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Plant and Crop Modelling : A Mathematical Approach to Plant and Crop Physiology

   [10]Plant and Crop Modelling : A Mathematical Approach to Plant and Crop
   Physiology
   Item# 1-930665-05-9 (Paperback; 669 pages)
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   by John H. M. Thornley and Ian R. Johnson
   This book is a textbook (it includes, for example, exercises and outline
   solutions). The plant scientist is shown how to express physiological ideas
   mathematically and how to deduce quantitative conclusions, which can then be
   compared with experiment. There is little new biology in the book, but it is
   presented in a way that will be new to many biologists.
   The matching of models to experiments means using mathematics for formulating
   biological concepts and second, using algebra, calculus, or, now more frequently,
   computers to solve or simulate the resulting model; and finally, comparing,
   qualitatively or quantitatively, prediction to measurement. Computers are the
   important enabling technology that makes it all possible: solving equations,
   assembling models of increasing sophistication and complexity, and comparing
   theory with experiment.
   The book is divided into three parts.
   Part I. Covers subjects of wide relevance to modelling and plant biology.
   Part II. The reader may choose to select topics of particular interest from part
   II. However, the whole-plant modeller will need to study all chapters, and the
   plant ecosystem modeller may need to add other material also.
   Part III. Plant morphology is at an introductory level. It is included because
   morphological characters may prove to be of equal importance to some
   physiological traits in determining plant function and performance.
   "This textbook presents, in an interesting and clearly written fashion, a
   mathematical approach to a wide range of topics in plant and crop physiology,
   including light interception, leaf and canopy photosynthesis, respiration,
   partitioning, transpiration and water relations, branching and phyllotaxis. The
   biochemistry of plant growth and maintenanace is also presented in some detail. I
   was very pleased with the text, especially with the philosophy presented by the
   authors that biological models are necessarily simplifications of complex detail.
   I would strongly recommend it for reading and consultation by graduates and
   research workers". J. Exp. Botany
   "The authors' approach succeeds admirably, giving a thorough account of the
   mathematical toolbox available to researchers and the areas in which those tools
   have been used". Plant, Cell and Environment
   "Combining considerable technical cleverness with creativity and the refreshing
   notion that science is a "common-sense, unpredictable, fascinating and thoroughly
   human activity". Times Higher Educational Supplement
   "Exceptionally scholarly volume. Logical and systematic. Authors have assembled a
   mass of mathematical material in an elegant layout". Agricultural Systems

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