Overview
- First textbook to describe how to improve qualities of horticultural crops
- Instructions for exercises are provided
- Strategies to enrich active ingredients in medicinal plants
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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III
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About this book
An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plant’s metabolism towards the production of compounds that are beneficial for human health when that plant is part of the diet or the source of phytopharmaceutical compounds.
The first part of the book introduces the concept of Controlled Environment Horticulture as a horticultural production technique used to maximize yields via the optimization of access to growing factors. The second part describes the use of this production technique in order to induce stress responses in the plant via the modulation of these growing factors and, importantly, the way that this manipulation induces defence reactions in the plant resulting in the production of compounds beneficial for human health. The third part provides guidance for the implementation of this knowledge in horticultural production.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Controlled Environment Horticulture
Book Subtitle: Improving Quality of Vegetables and Medicinal Plants
Authors: Christoph-Martin Geilfus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23197-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23196-5Published: 02 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23199-6Published: 02 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23197-2Published: 21 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 233
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Physiology, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development