Professor John K A Bleasdale
1984
Sections include: 1. THE SEED Seed dormancy; germination tests; rate of germination ; laboratory germination and field emergence; seed treatments giving enhanced performance; seed storage 2. THE SEEDLING Photosynthesis; water relations; salt uptake; sources and sinks; directional transport; hormones; quantitative aspects of seedling growth 3. THE VEGETATIVE PLANT Growth analysis; the restriction of growth; time and growth; competition between plants; pruning; training; tropisms; senescence; chilling and frost injury 4. VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION Natural vegetative propagation; planned propagation; dormancy; the storage of perennating organs; chemicals that break dormancy; sterile culture as a means of vegetative propagation 5. THE FLOWER Ripeness-to-flower ; 'neutral' species; photoperiodism and the induction of flowering; hormones and flower induction; vernalisation; the interaction between vernalisation and photoperiod; temperature and photoperiod; flowering stimuli as determinants of species distribution; pollination ; male and female flowers 6. THE FRUIT Flower senescence and fruit set; the growth of the fruit; respiration; the storage of fruit; ripening and abscission.
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