LECTURE NOTES FOR PLANT SCIENCES 508

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Lecture Topics:

• Introduction
• A Conceptual Model of Crop Yield
• Climate
• Soils
• Resources
• Interactions Between Abiotic Environmental Conditions and Resources
• Global Change and Agriculture
• Interactions among Species in Agroecosystems

  Some Principles of Weed Ecolgy

• The Functional Role of Diversity in Agroecosystems.
• Tropical Agroecosystems
• Sustainability Issues
• Sustainable Agricultural Systems

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