Significance of physics in agricultural sciences

Biophysics and agrophysics investigate the physical processes occurring in livig organisms and systems of agriculture' interst. Biophysics and agrophysics are partly overlaping. Many phenomena important for agriculture ( e.g. soil structure and interactions that determine it, water transport in the soil, transport of water and mineral fertilizers in the soil - plant system, effects of the temperature, radiation and other factors on the crop yields, substance permeation through the membranes, and others) which are subjected to physics laws can be investigated with the physical methods only. The knowledge of selected branches of physics enables the students of agricultural sciences to understand the physical phenomena occurring in systems they have to deal with, and thus may help them to develop the agriculture for the benefit of mankind