Abstract
THE scope of this book is much narrower than its title suggests, for it deals with only one aspect of crop production, and only two out of the whole complex of environmental factors. Its subject is the effect of temperature and of light on the 'development' of plants, defined by the author as “the progress towards reproduction by externally recognizable or invisible stages”, as distinct from 'growth' in the sense of dry matter accumulation or increase in size. As the author points out, this separation of the two aspects of growth, in the wider sense, is open to criticism, though it may be justified by experimental convenience. 'Development' and growth are not independent, as is very obvious in agricultural practice, where the object of controlling 'development' is to increase 'growth' as measured by the harvested yield.
Crop Production and Environment
By R. O. Whyte. Pp. 372 + 32 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1946.) 25s. net.
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WATSON, D. Crop Production and Environment. Nature 159, 179–180 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159179a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159179a0
