12: - Prospects of Applying Knowledge of Photosynthesis toward Improving Crop Production^*

To obtain a complete view on this topic, the reader is encouraged to read this chapter in conjunction with those by Portis (Chapter 1), Ogren and Chollet (Chapter 7), Berry and Downton (Chapter 9), Hesketh et al. (Chapter 11) and by Christy Porter (Chapter 14) (this volume). With the exception of minor updating, this chapter is based on literature available to the authors up to May 1980–Editor.