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All crops are plants, but not all plants are crops. While plant physiology explains how an individual plant works, crop physiology uses that knowledge to predict and manage yield, quality, and resilience at the field level. This post breaks down the three essential tasks of crop physiology: understanding cellular mechanisms, diagnosing plant functions, and managing environmental responses. Discover how applying these principles allows agronomists to diagnose field issues and improve overall harv

Introduction Welcome to your preparation guide for this week’s practical lab session! Before we get hands-on with the equipment, it is crucial to understand the physiological principles that allow us to measure plant health, light environments, and photosynthetic rates. In the upcoming practical, we will demonstrate three essential scientific instruments: The Konica Minolta SPAD-502 Chlorophyll Meter The LI-180 Spectrometer The LI-6800 Portable Photosynthesis System Read through this...

Your task is to present and analyse the findings from our recent spectrometer experiment in the physiology lab. You will evaluate and compare the light readings taken from the top tier and the bottom tier, interpreting what these differences mean for plant physiological processes. Create a video about 10-15 min, with you or your group talking about the spectrometer values below. Use creative thinking to fashion your video, it could be a podcast interview style, a forum, a short documentary-...