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Serres solaires de production
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ISBN: 2857441134 Year: 1981 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence Edisud

Künstliche Paradiese : Gewächshäuser und Wintergärten des 19. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3433022801 Year: 1988 Publisher: Berlin Ernst & Sohn

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Good agricultural practices for greenhouse vegetable crops
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ISBN: 9251076502 9789251076507 9789251076491 Year: 2013 Publisher: Rome


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Engineering the environment
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ISBN: 0822982765 9780822982760 9780822944744 082294474X Year: 2017 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press

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"This is the first history of phytotrons: huge climate-controlled laboratories that enabled plant scientists to experiment on the environmental causes of growth and development of living organisms. Made possible by computers and other modern technologies of the early Cold War, such as air conditioning and humidity control, phytotrons promised an end to global hunger and political instability, spreading around the world to thirty countries after World War II. The United States built nearly a dozen, including the first at Caltech in 1949. By the mid-1960s, as support and funding for basic science dwindled, phytotrons declined and ultimately disappeared--until, nearly thirty years later, the British built the Ecotron to study the impact of climate change on biological communities. By recalling the forgotten history of phytotrons, David P.D. Munns reminds us of the important role they can play in helping researchers unravel the complexities of natural ecosystems in the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.

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