The Education of An Agrobiologist An Address to the Directing Heads of Agricult
The Education of An Agrobiologist An Address to the Directing Heads of Agricult
O W Oswin William Willcox
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On the contrary, there is a more or less prevalent notion that the plant, by virtue of a mystical power of life that resides in it, is to a degree independent of its environment and is in a measure able to dominate outer circumstances instead of being com- pletely dominated by them. Any trace of such mysticism is fatal to the agrobiologic viewpoint. By genetic processes some kinds of plants may be endowed with adaptability to circumstances that are inimical to other kinds of plants not so adapt...ed, but this means only a substitution of one set of limiting circumstances for another. Whatever may be the inner quality of any vegetable organism yet known to man, its yield in any en- vironment is invariably a definite function of the character of that en- vironment . (3) To be sure, the mystics among plant biologists find some color of reason for their feeling that plants are to a degree independent of their environment, in the fact that the same plant species may produce identi- cal amounts of vegetable substance in environments of widely different compositions.
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