BookRoxana Savin, Gustavo A. Slafer, editors.
Summary: This book offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art source reference for understanding the functions and mechanisms responsible for yield and quality determination under a range of conditions. By uncovering relationships and challenges of successful and scalable crop management and breeding, this volume addresses the challenges of environmentally sound production of bulk and quality food, fodder, fiber, and energy which are of ongoing international concern. Contemporary agriculture and crop management confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against a background of climate change, including soil and water scarcity and higher temperatures, and the environmental and social aspects of agricultural sustainability. This book views crop production as an active source of methods, theories, ideas, and tools for application in genetic improvement and agronomy.
Contents:
Agroecological Basis for Managing Biotic Constraints
Agronomic Interactions with CO2 Sequestration
Crop Development Related to Temperature and Photoperiod
Crop Radiation Capture and Use Efficiency
Crop Responses to Available Soil Water
Crop Responses to Nitrogen
Crop Science and Technology, Introduction
Cropping Systems: Shaping Nature
Fertilizer Science and Technology
Genotype by Environment Interaction and Adaptation
Improving Grain Quality in Oil and Cereal Crops
Integrated Pest Management
Irrigation Management for Efficient Crop Production
Lodging Resistance in Cereals
Marker-Assisted Breeding in Crops
Phenotyping: New Crop Breeding Frontier
Plant Breeding Under a Changing Climate
Roots and Uptake of Water and Nutrients
Seed Dormancy and Agriculture and Physiology
Simulation Models as Tools for Crop Management
Source-sink Relationships in Cereals and Legumes
Spatial Crop Structure in Agricultural Systems
Heat Tolerance for Sustainable Productivity.