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A growth chamber manual: environmental control for plants
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ISBN: 0801411696 9780801411694 Year: 1978 Publisher: Ithaca Comstock

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Controlled environment guidelines for plant research
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ISBN: 0126909504 0323150586 9780126909500 Year: 1979


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Controlled environments for plant research
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ISBN: 0231035616 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press


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Biotronics.
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Year: 1972 Publisher: Fukuoka, Japan : Biotron Institute, Kyushu University,

Environment and the experimental control of plant growth
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ISBN: 0122214501 9780122214509 Year: 1975 Volume: 6 Publisher: London Academic Press


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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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Crop processes in controlled environments : proceedings of an international symposium held at the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton, Sussex, England, July 1971
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ISBN: 0125854404 9780125854405 Year: 1972 Volume: 2 Publisher: London : Academic Press,

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