<strong>Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations</strong> combines biology and physics toshow how water moves through the soilplantatmosphere continuum. Thi... » 

Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations combines biology and physics toshow how water moves through the soilplantatmosphere continuum. This textexplores the instrumentation and the methods used to measure the status ofwater in soil and plants. The basic methods of tensiometry pyschrometrystomatal porometry as well as newer methods of tension infiltrometry timedomain reflectometry are examined. Principles are clearly presented with theaid of diagrams anatomical figures and images of instrumentation. An addedfeature includes short biographies of important scientists at the end of eachchapter.Intended for graduate students in plant and soil science programs this bookalso serves as a useful reference for agronomists plant ecologists andagricultural engineers Principles are presented in an easytounderstand style Heavily illustrated with more than 200 figures diagrams are professionallydrawn Anatomical figures show root stem leaf and stomata Figures of instruments show how they work Book is carefully referenced giving sources for all information Struggles and accomplishments of scientists who developed the theories aregiven in short biographies. «