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The effect of water supply and humidity on growth and development

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External Factors Affecting Growth and Development / Aussenfaktoren in Wachstum und Entwicklung

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology / Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie ((532,volume 16))

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Soil water supply and atmospheric humidity have a profound influence on every aspect of the development of plants. The great practical importance of this has stimulated a great deal of research, especially in countries where shortage of water is a recurrent agricultural problem. Consequently we have a good deal of empirical knowledge concerning the effects of various water regimes on the growth, structure and composition of various plants, mainly crop plants. Much of this has been discussed in Maximov’s excellent monograph (Maximov 1929). Some new data have been added since which tend to confirm the older ones, but little progress has been made in tracing the chain of causes and effects which links the water regime to which the plant is subjected with its visible results in terms of cell number, size and differentiation.

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Wangermann, E. (1961). The effect of water supply and humidity on growth and development. In: Melchers, G. (eds) External Factors Affecting Growth and Development / Aussenfaktoren in Wachstum und Entwicklung. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology / Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11209-0_3

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