TY - CHAP AU - L. Krishnamurthy AU - M. Zaman-Allah AU - R. Purushothaman AU - M. Irshad Ahmed AU - V. Vadez ED - Darko Matovic Y1 - 2011-09-09 PY - 2011 T1 - Plant Biomass Productivity Under Abiotic Stresses in SAT Agriculture N2 - Biomass has been an intimate companion of humans from the dawn of civilization to the present. Its use as food, energy source, body cover and as construction material established the key areas of biomass usage that extend to this day. Given the complexities of biomass as a source of multiple end products, this volume sheds new light to the whole spectrum of biomass related topics by highlighting the new and reviewing the existing methods of its detection, production and usage. We hope that the readers will find valuable information and exciting new material in its chapters. BT - Biomass SP - Ch. 13 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/17279 DO - 10.5772/17279 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -