Basic Growth Analysis: Plant growth analysis for beginners

1 Introduction.- Growth.- Plant growth.- Plant growth analysis.- 'Classical' and 'functional' approaches.- Harvesting technique.- Units.- Notation.- Computing, mathematics, statistics.- Concepts and levels.- 2 Absolute growth rates.- Absolute growth rate in size (AGR).- Absolute grówth rate in number.- Absolute growth rate in populations.- Concluding remarks.- 3 Relative growth rates.- Relative growth rate (RGR).- Other relative growth rates.- Intrinsic rate of population increase.- Relative growth rates in biotechnology.- Concluding remarks.- 4 Simple ratios.- Leaf area ratio (LAR).- Specific leaf area (SLA).- Leaf weight ratio (LWR).- Leaf area index (LAI).- Efficiency of energy conversion digestible energy.- Harvestable dry matter (harvest index).- Harvestable protein.- Root-shoot allometric coefficient.- Other allometric coefficients.- Concluding remarks.- 5 Compounded growth rates.- Unit leaf rate (ULR).- Other leaf efficiencies.- Crop growth rate (CGR).- Specific absorption rate (SAR).- Specific utilization rate (SUR).- Sub-cellular efficiencies.- Unit production rate (UPR).- Component production rate (CPR).- Concluding remarks.- 6 Integral durations.- Leaf area duration (LAD).- Biomass duration (BMD).- Concluding remarks.- 7 Other independent variables.- 8 Interrelations.- In general.- Between ratios.- Between rates.- Within individual plants.- Within populations and communities.- An integrated scheme.- Concluding remarks.- 9 Questions and answers.- Tables of synopses.- Synopsis of the main derived quantities.- Synopsis of primary quantities and associated terms.- References.