Research Methods in Plant Sciences : Allelopathy, Vol. IV. Plant Analysis
Contents: Preface. Allelopathy and plant analysis/S.S. Narwal. I. General: 1. Basics of analytical reagents and preparation of standard solutions/V.K. Phogat and O.P. Sangwan. 2. Analytical instruments/V.K. Phogat, Rita Dahiya and O.P. Sangwan. 3. Plant samples : collection, processing and storage/D.K. Bhandari, J.C. Sharma, S.S. Dahiya and M.L. Batra. 4. Digestion of plant samples/O.P. Sangwan, Deepak Khatak and D.S. Dahiya. II. Determination plant nutrients: 5. Carbon/O.P. Sangwan and V.K. Phogat. 6. Nitrogen/D.J. Dahiya, Ravi Kumar and M.S. Kuhad. 7. Phosphorus/Tek Chand and D.S. Mehla. 8. Potassium and sodium/S.C. Mehta and K.S. Grewal. 9. Calcium and magnesium/O.P. Sangwan, A.K. Jain and V.K. Phogat. 10. Sulphur/Mohinder Singh, M.L. Dixit and J.S. Dhankhar. 11. Micro-nutrients/R.S. Antil, R.P. Narwal and O.P. Sangwan. 12. Toxic metals/R.P. Narwal, R.S. Antil, Balwan Singh, A.V. Shanwal and D.S. Dahiya. Subject index.
"Allelopathy is a new field of science, as the term 'Allelopathy' was coined by Prof. Hans Molisch, a German plant physiologist in 1937. Till now lot of Allelopathy research has been done in various fields of agricultural and plant sciences. However, there is no compilation of various research methods used. Every scientist is conducting research in his own way. It is causing lot of problems to researchers working in underdeveloped/Third World Countries in small towns without library facilities. Therefore, to make available the standard methods for conducting Allelopathy research independently, this multi-volume book has been planned. Since Allelopathy is multi-disciplinary area of research, hence, volumes have been planned for each discipline.
This book will prove very useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students and teaching faculty for class room and laboratory experiments as well as for research." (jacket)
