Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield
Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield highlights their importance as a mechanism specifically for this result. Intended to transform the latest scientific research into practical application, the book focuses on the effects of biostimulants on flower and fruit development and set, early flowering, pollen viability and germination and other reproductive aspects. Biostimulants are a group of substances of natural origin and/or microorganisms that offers the potential to reduce the dependency on harmful chemical fertilizers that cause environmental degradation. The application of biostimulants represents one of the most innovative and promising strategies to improve crop productivity. It has been reported that biostimulants reinforce plant vigor making them more resilient to survive and recover during various environmental stress. Their use to promote plant growth, yield and to overcome stress tolerance in a sustainable manner has increasingly gained attention. Although biostimulants have successfully been used for promoting the growth and development of many species, their role in promoting sexual and vegetative reproductive growth and development of marketable crops has not been widely investigated. This book focuses on a sustainable approach in utilization of these promising biostimulants in agriculture, horticulture and floriculture for better productivity and to feed a growing world population.
1. Evaluating biostimulants and their active biomolecules in improving reproductive growth of crops 2. Application of biostimulants for vegetative reproduction of crops with special reference to bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes and stolons. 3. Role of biostimulants in the induction of buds and flowering 4. Influence of biostimulants on pollen germination, pollen tube development and pollen viability 5. Role of biostimulants in pollen-pistil interaction and development of female gametophyte (ovule development) 6. Effect of biostimulants on fertilization and embryo development 7. Enhancing seed production and quality using biostimulants 8. Effect of biostimulants on fruit set and fruit yield 9. Contribution of biostimulants in improving flower and fruit longevity 10. Role of biostimulants in the regulation of the physiology of flowering 11. Improving crop yield and produce quality using biostimulants 12. Empirical evidence of the efficacy of biostimulants in improving crop productivity under field conditions 13. Common mistakes made by researchers and farmers when applying biostimulants 14. Action mechanisms of biostimulants with respect to reproductive growth (sexual and vegetative reproduction) and crop yield 15. State-of-the-art and future research directions?in biostimulant research for improving reproductive growth and crop yield
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology (1996) from Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Following postdoctoral work in Swedish Agriculture University Umea, Dept. of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, he joined as a researcher in Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacký University & Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR and is now a Deputy Head of the Department of Chemical Biology, Palacký University, Olomouc. In 2014 Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic awarded him a research professorship (DSc.). He has supervised 5 MSc, 10 Ph.D. students to completion and 2 postdoctoral fellows and has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers, over 150 conference presentations and has above 65 granted patents.
Ph.D. in Botany from university of Natal, South Africa in 1970. He is the director of the Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, University of Natal, South Africa. His research field includes plant hormones, biostimulants, seed germination, senescence, stress physiology, post-harvest physiology, biotechnology and plant tissue culture, ethnobotany, secondary products and ethnomedicine. Prof Van Stade
- Focuses on the biochemical, physiological and molecular mode of action of biostimulants
- Includes effects of both organic and inorganic biostimulants
- Details the role of biostimulants in sexual and asexual reproductive results
Date de parution : 11-2024
Ouvrage de 330 p.
