Plant Production on the Threshold of a New Century: Proceedings of the International Conference at the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, held June 28 – July 1, 1993

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Crop Production on the Threshold of a New Century....Pages 1-8
Reflections on the Economic and Ecological Sustainability of Modern Plant Production....Pages 9-22
Farm Economic Modelling of Integrated Plant Production....Pages 23-36
Innovative Research with Ecological Pilot Farmers....Pages 37-56
Plants of the Future. Can Past History Teach Any Lessons?....Pages 57-70
Farming Systems Characterization through Cropping Patterns ; experiences from lowland vegetable production in Indonesia....Pages 71-76
Economic and Ecological Potentials of Sustainable Agriculture in South-India....Pages 77-83
The Use of Farm Economic Modelling to Determine the Influence of Macsharry on the Development towards Sustainability....Pages 85-91
Review and Application of the Farming Styles Concept: The Case of Dutch Arable Farming....Pages 93-100
Economic Aspects of Environmental Policy in the Mushroom Industry in the Netherlands....Pages 101-108
Micropropagation, an Essential Tool in Modern Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Plant Breeding....Pages 109-114
Introduction to a Bio-Economic Production Model for Sugar Beet Growing....Pages 115-122
The Concept of Closed Business Systems in the Dutch Glasshouse Horticulture....Pages 123-135
Magnitudes of Disturbance in the Evolution of Agro-Ecosystems: N-Flows in Rice-Based Systems....Pages 137-149
Durable Ecocomplexity: Beyond the Threshold of a New Century....Pages 151-158
Biodiversity and the World’s Food Crisis....Pages 159-168
Von Liebig’s Law of the Minimum and Low-Input Technologies....Pages 169-177
Nitrogen Fluxes in the Crop-Soil System of Brussels Sprouts and Leek....Pages 179-185
Modelling in the Search for Balance between Inputs and Outputs in Greenhouse Cultivation....Pages 187-195
Relevance of Heterogeneity of Cereal Crop Stands for Plant Health....Pages 197-203
Implications of Intercropping (Sweet Pepper - Tomato) for the Biological Control of Pests in Glasshouses....Pages 205-211
Comparison of Three Potato Pathosystems in the Netherlands....Pages 213-222
Control of Verticillium Dahliae by Catch Crops and Haulm Killing Techniques....Pages 223-230
The Application of Physiological and Molecular Understanding of the Effects of the Environment on Photosynthesis in the Selection of Novel “Fuel” Crops; With Particular Reference to C 4 Perennials....Pages 231-244
Diagnosis of Primary Production of Plants by Spectroscopic Analysis of the Primary Events in Photosynthesis....Pages 245-262
Remote Sensing for Screening Ecosystem Quality....Pages 263-279
Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance....Pages 281-294
Can Chlorophyll Fluorescence and P700 Absorption Changes Detect Environmental Stress?....Pages 295-302
Index of Freezing Based on Time Series....Pages 303-309
Uncertainty and Tactical Decision Support in Winter Wheat Pest Management....Pages 311-321
Spatial Heterogeneity of Radiation Incidence and Interception for Kiwifruit Vines, and Implications for Fruit Quality....Pages 323-330
The Use of Genetical Variation in Roots to Improve Productivity....Pages 331-337
Crop Reactions to Environmental Stress Factors....Pages 339-347
Tuber Induction in Potato: The Possible Role of Hydroxylated Jasmonic Acids....Pages 349-356
Economic Background to the Agrarian Reform in Russia....Pages 357-359
Farmers’ Expertise, a Resource to Improve Sustainability; The Case of Pesticide Application in Shallots in Brebes, Central Java....Pages 361-363
Experimental Introduction of Integrated Arable Farming in Practice....Pages 365-368
Ways to Improve Efficiency of Pesticide and Energy Consumption of Roses under Glass....Pages 369-371
Biological Control of Cucumber Powdery Mildew by Mycoparasites....Pages 373-374
New Technologies for Horticultural Crops....Pages 375-380
Prospects for Microbial Stabilization in Closed Liquid Hydroponic Cultures of Tomato....Pages 381-383
Energy Efficiency and CO 2 Emission in the Dutch Greenhouse Industry....Pages 385-387
Crop Protection Using Diversification and Induced Resistance in Low-Input Cereal/Legume Cropping Systems....Pages 389-392
Perspectives of Breeding for Low Input Conditions....Pages 393-395
Interaction of Late Season Foliar Spray of Urea and Fungicide Mixture in Wheat Production....Pages 397-399
Suppression of Rhizoctonia Solani on Potato by Mycophagous Soil Fauna....Pages 401-403
Biological Control of Fusarium Wilts....Pages 405-406
The Screening of Maize Resistance to Aphids as a Contribution to Integrated Pest Management....Pages 407-409
Characterisation of RNA-Mediated Resistance to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Transgenic Tobacco Plants....Pages 411-412
Insecticidal Activity of Autographa Californica Nuclear Polyhedroses Virus Expressing Different Bacillus Thuringiensis Crystal Protein Constructs....Pages 413-413
Engineering of Biosafe Recombinant Baculoviruses....Pages 415-417
The Influence of Trees in Parklands on Sorghum Yields....Pages 419-421
Molecular Mechanisms of Photoinhibition, an Abiotic Stress Factor Limiting Primary Plant Production....Pages 423-425
Comparison of Photosystem II Electron Transport and Oxygen Evolution in Two Marine Algae....Pages 427-429
Simulation of Tree Growth with the Pinogram and Treearch Programmes....Pages 431-434
Monitoring of Gas Exchange as Related to Seasonal Changes in Microclimate of a Kiwifruit Vine....Pages 435-436
Plant Water Status Studies and Simple Field Screening Methods for Selecting Drought Tolerant Genotypes in Wheat ( Triticum Aestivum L.)....Pages 437-438
A Strategy for the Breeding of Elite Families of Oil Palm ( Elaeis Guineensis Jacq.)....Pages 439-441
Potential of Tritordeum as a New Cereal Crop....Pages 443-445
Effect of Temperature on Salinity Tolerance of Desmodium at Germination Stage....Pages 447-449
Influence of Light Stress during the Acclimatization of in Vitro Plantlets....Pages 451-453
Interaction between Foliar and Root Nutrition of Greenhouse Tomato....Pages 455-457
Role of Pollination Conditions in the Reproductive Biology of Vicia Faba ....Pages 459-460
Naked Oats and Their Future Challenges to Plant Breeding in Northern Growing Conditions....Pages 461-463
Drought Tolerance in Oats — Physiological Methods to Assess Varietal Differences....Pages 465-467
The Effect of Linuron on Chemical Composition of Carrot Roots....Pages 469-471
Degradation of Phenolic Acids by Bacteria from Liquid Hydroponic Cultures of Tomato....Pages 473-475
Diversity and Adaptation in Sardinian Barley ( Hordeum Vulgare L.) Landraces....Pages 477-479
The Effects of Biotic Environmental Factors on the Yield of Different Winter Wheat ( T . Aestivum L.) Genotypes....Pages 481-483
Back Matter....Pages 485-501