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Agricultural Ethics - Issues for the 21 st Century
ISBN: 9780891183235
Platform/Publisher: WOL / ACSESS
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Agriculture Aquaculture & Food Science; Agriculture;

Crop physiology, as the basis of understanding crop growth, development, and management, emerged in the 1950s and 1960s replacing the empirical approaches to crop management of previous decades. The CSSA published a landmark volume on crop physiology as a product of an international symposium held at the University of Nebraska in 1969. Knowledge of plant processes and controlling mechanisms increased dramatically during the intervening 24 years since that symposium and it was appropriate to revisit this topic. Hence a symposium was hosted by the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1991. We congratulate the planners and authors from the USA and throughout the world for sharing their authoritative synthesis and views on this intricate topic. The authors have clarified and added detail and insights about crop growth and development, metabolism, and environmental stresses. The advancement of knowledge recorded in this book reflect, in part, the capacity of crop and soil scientists to address expanding concerns of society about the environment and the impact of human activity on our food and fiber production capacity. This book will enable teachers, researchers, and practitioners to raise new questions, to prepare new knowledge and understanding and to develop' appropriate techniques and solutions to ensure an abundant food and fiber supply while protecting our natural resources. To the organizers, editors, and authors we are indebted and share in their pride of a job well done.

Peter G. Hartel is a professor of microbiology at the University of Georgia.

Kathryn Paxton Georgia is a professor of philosophy at the University of Idaho.

James Vorst is a professor of agronomy at Purdue University.