Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Soviet Plant Physiology
Author: The Lysenko Affair
Author: David JoravskyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226410323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominated by a fanatical agronomist who achieved dictatorial power over genetics and plant science as well as agronomy. "A standard source both for Soviet specialists and for sociologists of science."—American Journal of Sociology "Joravsky has produced . . . the most detailed and authoritative treatment of Lysenko and his view on genetics."—New York Times Book Review
Russian Journal of Plant Physiology
Author: The Lysenko Effect
Author: Nils Roll-HansenPublisher: Humanities Press International
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ukrainian agronomist Lysenko was the leader of an influential Soviet agrobiological school that rejected standard genetics and instead promoted a brand of pseudoscience that held sway among Soviet biologists for over twenty-five years. The dominance of Lysenko's pseudoscientific ideas has been characterized as the biggest scandal of 20th-century science. That it happened under a regime that took particular pride in building its policy on science makes the affair particularly interesting, even for Western observers free from totalitarian governments. The Soviet Union was the first country with a government policy and large-scale public support for science. Agricultural science was a main showcase for this unprecedented investment in science. Unlike other scholars who have studied Lysenko's influence, Roll-Hansen argues that the corruption of Soviet biology should not be explained primarily as the result of Stalin's despotism and the willful intervention of party hacks into the objective methods of science. Because of ideological and economic pressures to produce tangible benefits to society, says Roll-Hansen, Soviet biology, under Lysenko's leadership, succumbed to a wishful-thinking syndrome, which paved the way for Lysenko. By such thinking scientific objectivity was compromised in favor of ideas that accorded with progressive political ideals and economic goals as determined by the ruling politburo. Roll-Hansen draws provocative parallels between Lysenko's bad science in mid-20th-century Russia and attempts by Western theorists today to construe science in social constructivist terms or to exercise political control over scientific research. - from publisher description.
Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology
Author: Mohammad PessarakliPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 082474134X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 997
Book Description
With contributions from over 70 international experts, this reference provides comprehensive coverage of plant physiological stages and processes under both normal and stressful conditions. It emphasizes environmental factors, climatic changes, developmental stages, and growth regulators as well as linking plant and crop physiology to the production of food, feed, and medicinal compounds. Offering over 300 useful tables, equations, drawings, photographs, and micrographs, the book covers cellular and molecular aspects of plant and crop physiology, plant and crop physiological responses to heavy metal concentration and agrichemicals, computer modeling in plant physiology, and more.
Soviet Plant Physiology
Author: Biology Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Author: Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Plant Physiology 5B
Author: F.C. StewardPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323149189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Plant Physiology: A Treatise, Volume VB: Analysis of Growth: The Responses of Cells and Tissues in Culture deals with the innate capacities for growth that reside in mature organs, tissues, and cells of higher plants. The book examines the various ways, normal and abnormal, in which surviving organs, tissues, or cells from plants may grow, metabolize, and develop. The text will be of value to botanists, horticulturists, and biologists.
Pesticides Documentation Bulletin
Author: Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism
Author: Richard C. LeegoodPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0792361431
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The principal aim of Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism is to provide final year undergraduates, graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of photosynthetic carbon metabolism in plants, ranging from molecular to ecophysiological aspects. The book examines how CO2 is acquired by algae and by plants and is divided into three sections. The first section concentrates on the pathways (the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle and photorespiration, with particular emphasis on the enzyme ribulose bisphospate carboxylase/oxygenase, Rubisco) and the regulation of CO2 fixation. The second section deals with the fate of fixed carbon, in chapters on the synthesis of products, such as sucrose, starch, fructans and sugar alcohols, and with the regulation of cellular partitioning of carbon, including topics such as respiration and feedback regulation of photosynthesis by carbohydrates. The last section concentrates on the various problems that plants face in taking up CO2 from their environment, and how CO2 concentrating mechanisms operate in the algae and in plants with C4 photosynthesis and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism. The ecological significance of these mechanisms is also discussed.