Grasses Crops Competitors And Ornamentals by Hansjoerg Kraehmer, JOHN WILEY

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JOHN WILEY Grasses Crops Competitors And Ornamentals by Hansjoerg Kraehmer

Combines new findings on morphological aspects, the latest data on gene function in grasses, and the interaction of grasses with their habitats_x000D__x000D__x000D_45% of all arable land is covered by five grass crops: wheat, maize, rice, barley and sugar cane. This book demonstrates why crops and weeds are growing in characteristic environments today, and looks at how cropping practices may change in the future and how these changes will affect weed spectra. It explains the distribution of grasses and their role for mankind and summarizes our knowledge on grass genomes. Special emphasis is placed on the function of genes at defined developmental stages and in organs of grasses. The development of grasses is then described from the germination to fruit set with many unpublished examples._x000D__x000D__x000D_Grasses: Crops, Competitors and Ornamentals provides readers with a comparative description of selected grass organs (stem, root, leaf, inflorescence) and devotes several chapters to habitats of grasses and morphological characteristics that enable grasses to grow in special environments. In addition, some chapters deal with grasses as crops and weeds, and emphasis is placed on their adaptation to modern agriculture._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_Predicts how cropping practices may change in the future and how these changes will affect weed spectra_x000D__x000D_Details grasses as crops and weeds, emphasizing their adaptation to modern agriculture_x000D__x000D_Summarizes our knowledge on grass genomes_x000D__x000D_Connects classical morphology with the latest tools in molecular biology as well as ecological aspects determining the wide distribution of grass species today_x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_Grasses: Crops, Competitors and Ornamentals will be of great interest to agricultural scientists who want to know more about crops and weeds, grassland specialists and breeders interested in special grass traits, and molecular biologists and ecologists who study the biology and habitat of grasses._x000D_ _x000D_ List of Contributors vii_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Foreword ix_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Acknowledgements xi_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part I Introduction 1_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 1 Introduction 3_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part II Grass Genomics 11_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 2 Grass Sequencing Projects 13_x000D_ Todd Gaines_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 3 Grass Gene Sequences and Traits 25_x000D_ Hansjoerg Krahmer and Todd Gaines_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part III Morphological and Physiological Characteristics of Grasses 29_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 4 Flower and Inflorescence 31_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 5 Fertilisation and Fruit Development 89_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer and Peter Baur_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 6 Seedlings 165_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 7 Leaf 195_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer and Peter Baur_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 8 Shoots 233_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 9 Roots 435_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 10 Growth Forms of Grasses 447_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 11 Grass Surfaces 457_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer and Peter Baur_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part IV Grasses as Crops 485_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 12 Arable Crops 487_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 13 Bamboos 491_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 14 Dominance of Grasses as Crops 495_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part V Grasses as Weeds 497_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 15 Dominance of Grasses as Weeds 499_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer and Carl Bell_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part VI Grasses as Ornamentals 503_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 16 What Makes Grasses Attractive Ornamentals, and Where? 505_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part VII Natural Habitats of Grasses 517_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 17 Native Grasslands 519_x000D_ Carl Bell_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Part VIII Conclusions 549_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ 18 Why Have Grasses Become So Successful? 551_x000D_ Hansjoerg Kraehmer_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Index 555_x000D_