Contents




Preface

*The first edition of the book entitled "Advances in Agrophysical Research" is issued to honour the*

*- prof. Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (AFI), the member of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, who in 1932 established the Scientific-Research Institute of Agrophysics in Leningrad (SU), widely known in the world as "AFI", and now officially named the Scientific-Research Institute of Agrophysics of*

*- prof. Bohdan Dobrzański, the member of the Polish Academy of Science (PAS), who in 1968 estab‐ lished the Agrophysical Departament belonged primary to the Institute of Plant Physiology PAS,*

*In the 2012 the S-RIA RAAS in St. Petersburg (Russia) was celebrated 80th Jubilee, and the IA PAN*

*More information about Institutes can be find on pages: www.agrophys.ru and www.ipan.lublin.pl*

The book offers comprehensive analysis of the wide range of scientific knowledge in agro‐ physics i.e. application of physics in agriculture. More precisely the book contains results of investigations focused on agronomy with special emphases on interdisciplinary field of agrophysics. The book is divided into three sections: first section A is an introduction, than section B and C. Introduction contains the general information about agrophysics as a branch of science, its history and some information about researchers and institutions which were/are involved in agrophysical research. The section B is devoted to physical properties of soil and environment, and section C contains data of physical properties of plant and its products. The Reader can find same interesting aspects on the role of agrophysics in agricul‐ ture, i.e. the physics of soil and agricultural environment as well as physical properties of

The book is divided into 15 chapters, the first one is in the section A, 8 - in the section B, and 6 - in the section C. The authors are specialists in wide range of discipline what results in

At the beginning the Reader finds the section A (Chapter 1) which is introduction to agro‐ physics. It presents the existing definitions of agrophysics, the history of agrophysical insti‐ tutes in Russia and Poland as well as some basic activities which are in close relation to agrophysics. The fundamental mission of physics in agriculture is shortly described includ‐ ing societal activities related to agrophysics, which were undertaken mostly in Poland.

reproductive materials and row materials up to physical properties of food.

interdisciplinary approach to the investigation and interpretation of the results.

*the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science (S-RIA RAAS) in St. Petersburg (Russia), and*

*memory of the prominent researchers, founders of the institutes of agrophysics:*

*next renamed as the Institute of Agrophysics PAS in Lublin (Poland).*

*in Lublin (Poland) is celebrated 45th Jubilee in 2013.*

