SOME CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN SUB-TROPICAL PASTURE RESEARCH
Published by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
in 1964
- Categorised in:
- FARMING
SOME CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN SUB-TROPICAL PASTURE RESEARCH
Stock no. 665110
1968.
Hardback.
Good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Commonwealth Bureau of Pastures and Field Crops Hurley, Berkshire, England (Bulletin 47). Green cloth, black title to spine. B/w photos. 242 pages, including index. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Covers are damp(?) spotted. Some neat ink writing to front free-endpaper. A little foxing else contents clean. Orange wrapper is edge rubbed and slightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- PART I THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- 1. General objectives and concepts
- 2. The regional approach
- PART II DEFINING THE ENVIRONMENT
- 3. The sub-tropical environment of eastern Australia
- 4. Plant ecology
- 5. Soil survey and soil assessment
- PART III PROVIDING BETTER PLANTS
- 6. Plant introduction
- 7. Plant breeding and genetics
- PART IV IMPROVING PLANT PRODUCTION
- 8. Mineral nutrition of plants
- 9. Legume bacteriology
- 10. Plant physiology
- PART V THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF PASTURES
- 11. The development of pastures
- 12. The nutritive value of pasture plants
- 13. Plant chemistry
- PART VI STATISTICAL METHODS
- 14. Statistics in pasture research
- PART VII METHODS AND FACILITIES
- 15. Methods used in ecological surveys
- 16. Techniques in plant nutrition and the soil fertility survey
- 17. Techniques used in work with Rhizobium
- 18. A controlled-environment unit
- 19. Methods and facilities in pasture research
- 20. Methods of chemical analysis
- Appendices:
- 1. List of scientific names, with authorities, of all plant species referred to in the text
- 2. Non-metric dimensions used in the text
- 3. Sources of proprietary equipment mentioned in the text
- References
- Glossary
- Subject Index