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

__Plant Production on the Threshold of a New Century__ describes and compares problems and frontier developments in the different sectors of plant production, integrating developments in basic plant sciences, crop science and socioeconomic science, leading to sustainable plant production. Hence the book formulates goals and constraints in policy, economy, production, environment and land use; indicates how these goals and constraints may be translated into farming styles and cropping systems; and describes how the fundamental plant sciences can contribute to the implementation of such farming styles and cropping systems. 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