The Growth of Bulbs: Applied aspects of the physiology of ornamental bulbous crop plantThe Growth of Bulbs: Applied Aspects of the Physiology of Ornamental Bulbous Crop Plants presents an account of ornamental bulbs as plants and as crops, with emphasis on scientific aspects of bulb growing, bulb treatment, and bulb forcing. While the account is biased towards British bulb growing, it also introduces bulb growing in other parts of the world, especially in the Netherlands, the United States, Israel, and Japan. The book's opening chapter discusses the origins of bulbous plants, how they became important as crop plants, and how the various forms now widely grown had been developed. This is followed by separate chapters on bulb types, structure, morphology, development and periodicity; bulb growth and productivity; flower initiation and differentiation; and the storage of bulbs. Subsequent chapters cover bulb physiology and metabolism, bulb disorders, and bulb pests and diseases. The book concludes with reflections on the form of the plant of the future. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Growth and productivity | 45 |
Chapter 4 The initiation and growth of bulbs | 72 |
Chapter 5 Flower initiation and differentiation | 98 |
Chapter 6 The storage of bulbs | 116 |
Chapter 7 Poststorage development | 147 |
Chapter 8 Physiology and metabolism | 184 |
Chapter 9 Physiological disorders | 235 |
Chapter 10 Pests and diseases of bulbs | 251 |
Chapter 11 The future | 269 |
Author Index | 293 |
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anthesis Apeldoorn apex apical dominance apices axil base plate Blaauw bulb growth bulb scales bulb weight bulb yield bulbous plants cells commercially crop cultivars damage daughter bulbs decreased disease dormancy dry weight duration early flowering Easter lilies eelworm effect elongation emergence ethylene field figures final first floral flower differentiation flower initiation flower quality foliage forcing formation gibberellin glasshouse Golden Harvest growing season grown Hartsema high temperature Hippeastrum hot-water treatment hyacinth increase infected inflorescence Iris bulbs Iris Wedgwood Kamerbeek lateral bulb units leaf area index leaves lifting Lilium low-temperature treatment lower meristem Monocotyledons mother bulb Narcissus and tulip nitrogen normal occur optimum perianth period photoperiod planting density polyploidy pre-cooling rapid Rees relative growth rates respiration rate roots Rose Copland Rosewarne senescence shoot soil species stage stem stored sympodial terminal transfer tulip bulbs tulip cultivars Turquand vernalization virus warm storage Wedgwood weeks