Into the Field - How advances in instrumentation technology has allowed agronomic research to move out of the laboratory and into the field.

Environmental laboratory

Into the Field - How advances in instrumentation technology has allowed agronomic research to move out of the laboratory and into the field.

21 Nov, 2011

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Roy Newman
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Being able to feed the world’s increasing population is one of the fundamental priorities of the global community. Understanding crop production, plant biochemical activity and the plant’s interaction with its changing environment, therefore, is a high priority with both national and multi-national administrations.

Prior to the 1950s, the only way that many researchers were able to assess plant growth was to dig the plant up and weigh it on returning to the laboratory; a rather crude, unreliable and impractical technique.

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