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Water-efficient landscaping in the Intermountain West : a professional and do-it-yourself guide
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ISBN: 1283250179 9786613250179 0874217903 9780874217902 9781283250177 6613250171 9780874217896 087421789X Year: 2011 Publisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press,

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This working manual provides complete information on the technical aspects of designing, building, and maintaining waterwise landscapes in the Mountain West. Written particularly for professionals, including landscape designers, architects, contractors, and maintenance and irrigation specialists, it has an attractive, well-illustrated, user-friendly format that will make it useful as well to DIY homeowners and to educators, plant retailers, extension agents, and many others.The manual is organized according to landscape principles that are adapted to the climate of the in


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Waterwise house & garden : a guide for sustainable living
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ISBN: 1283154048 9786613154040 0643069836 9780643069831 9780643099791 0643099794 Year: 2003 Publisher: Collingwood, Vic. : Landlinks,

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Shows how we can contribute to conserving water, our most precious resource, in our home and garden.


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Drought Stress in Horticultural Plants
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ISBN: 3036565183 3036565175 Year: 2023 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,

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Drought stress is one of the main factors limiting horticultural crops, especially in environments like the Mediterranean basin, which is often characterized by sub-optimal water availability. The global change will determine the increase in semi-arid conditions, so all horticultural crops will have to cope with the water scarcity. Appropriate plant selection and new cultivation methods, especially methods of deficit irrigation, are crucial in improving the crop cultivation performances.Horticultural plants can have specific adaptive mechanisms to overcome the negative effects of drought stress. Drought-tolerant plants show different adjustment mechanisms to overcome this stress, including morphological, physiological, and biochemical modifications. The plant responses include increasing the root/shoot ratio, growth reduction, leaf anatomy change, reduction of leaf size, and reduction of total leaf area to limit the water loss and guarantee the photosynthesis process. Furthermore, drought stress influences gas exchange and other physiological parameters. Recent acquisitions on the mechanism of signal transduction and the development of drought tolerance in plants are useful to understand the action mechanisms. Dr. Stefania Toscano Dr. Giulia Franzoni Dr. Sara Álvarez Guest Editors.


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Advances in molecular breeding toward drought and salt tolerant crops
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ISBN: 1281067253 9786611067250 1402055781 1402055773 Year: 2007 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Verlag,

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Plant stress caused by drought and salinity are among the major constraints on crop production and food security worldwide. Breeding programs to improve crop yield in dry and saline environments have progressed slowly due to our limited understanding of the underlying physiological, biochemical, developmental, and genetic mechanisms that determine plant responses to these forms of stress, as well as to technical difficulties in combining favorable alleles to create the improved high yielding genotypes needed for these environments. Advances in Molecular Breeding toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops seeks to integrate the most recent findings about key biological determinants of plant stress tolerance with modern crop improvement strategies. This volume is unique because is provides exceptionally wide coverage of current knowledge and expertise being applied in drought and salt tolerance research, spanning the scientific hierarchy from physiology, biochemistry, development, and genetics, to the newest technologies being used to manipulate drought and salinity associated traits for germplasm improvement. This book will be an invaluable reference for educators and researchers in agronomy and horticulture, crop breeding, molecular genetics, and biotechnology.

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