Crop Physiology
Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy
Edited by- Victor Sadras, South Australian R&D Institute, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Daniel Calderini, Universidad Austral, Chile
- Victor Sadras, South Australian R&D Institute, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Daniel Calderini, Universidad Austral, Chile
Contemporary agriculture confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against the background of soil and water scarcity, world-wide and regional shifts in the patterns of land use driven by both climate change and the need to develop crop-based sources of energy, and the environmental and social aspects of agricultural sustainability. Hence, this book compiles a multi-authored perspective on the ways in which crop physiology could be integrated with other disciplines. With a focus on genetic improvement and agronomy, this book addresses the challenges of environmentally sound production of bulk and quality food, fodder, fibre and energy which will be faced over the next decade.
Audience
Primary:
Agronomists; plant geneticists and plant breeding professionals; crop physiologists, ecologists, and ecophysiologists; plant physiologists
Secondary:
horticultural scientists; those involved with grain and cereal crops and sustainable agriculture; environmental microbiologists
Tertiary:
Students of plant breeding and crop ecophysiology
Hardbound,
Published: April 2009
Imprint: Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0-12-374431-9
Reviews
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"This volume is a compilation of 21 reviews, ably edited and presented in three parts as Farming System, Capture and Use of Resources and Crop Physiology The scale The book contains a great deal of useful information "---Experimental Agriculture"This book provides deep and detailed study of the latest research problems in crop physiology for breeders, geneticist, ecologists, ecophysiologists and physiologists; therefore, this book is recommendable to practitioners of, all those who want to implement the most recent advances in crop technology. Moreover, this textbook is a valuable reference for physiology and agronomy students."--
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum
Contents
- 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Crop PhysiologyVictor Sadras, Daniel Calderini and David ConnorPart 1 Farming Systems: Case Studies2. Farming Systems of Australia: Exploiting the Synergy between Genetic Improvement and Agronomy Ralph A. Fischer 3. Farming Systems of Argentina: Yield Constraints and Risk Management Pablo Calviño and Juan Monzon 4. Improving Farming Systems in Northern European ConditionsPirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Ari Rajala, Hannu Känkänen and Kaija Hakala5. Cereal-based Cropping Systems in Asia: Nutrition and Disease ManagementRam C. SharmaPart 2 - Capture and Efficiency in the Use of Resources: Quantitative Frameworks 6. Improving Productivity to Face Water Scarcity in Irrigated AgricultureElias Fereres and Victoria González-Dugo7. Crop Radiation Capture and Use Efficiency: A Framework for Crop Growth AnalysisClaudio O. Stöckle and Armen R. Kemanian 8. Quantifying Crop Responses to Nitrogen Deficiency and Avenues to Improve Nitrogen-use EfficiencyGilles Lemaire and François GastalPart 3 Crop physiology, Genetic Improvement, and Agronomy 9. Darwinian Agriculture: Real, Imaginary and Complex Trade-offs as Constraints and OpportunitiesR. Ford Denison 10. Modelling Crop Improvement in a G x E x M Framework via Gene-trait-phenotype RelationshipsCarlos Messina, Graeme Hammer, Zhanshan Dong, Dean Podlich and Mark Cooper 11. Integration of Biotechnology, Plant Breeding and Crop Physiology: Dealing with Complex Interactions from a Physiological PerspectiveFernando H. Andrade, Rodrigo G. Sala, Ana C. Pontaroli and Alberto León12. Crop Development: Genetic Control, Environmental Modulation and Relevance for Genetic Improvement of Crop YieldGustavo Slafer, Adriana Kantolic, Maria Appendino, Daniel Miralles, and Roxana Savin13. Crop Roots Systems Form and Function: Improving the Capture of Water and Nutrients with Vigorous Root SystemsJairo Palta and Michelle Watt14. Integrated Views in Plant Breeding: Modern Approaches for an Old TopicGrazia M. Borrelli, Pasquale De Vita, Anna M. Mastrangelo, and Luigi Cattivelli15. Genetic Improvement of Grain Crops: Yield PotentialM. John Foulkes, Matthew P. Reynolds, and Roger Sylvester-Bradley 16. Management and Breeding Strategies for the Improvement of Grain and Oil QualityLuis Aguirrezábal, Pierre Martre, Gustavo Pereyra-Irujo, Natalia Izquierdo, and Vincent Allard17. Dynamics of Crop-Pathogen Interactions: From Gene to Continental ScaleRobert F. Park, Michael Ayliffe, Jeremy J. Burdon, and David Guest 18. Improving Crop Competitiveness with Weeds: Adaptations and Tradeoffs Glenn K. McDonald and Gurjeet S. Gill19. Dynamic and Functional Monitoring Technologies for Applications in Crop Management Daniel Rodriguez, Andrew J. Robson, and Robert Belford20. Crop Physiology, Modelling and Climate Change: Impact and Adaptation Strategies Senthold Asseng, Weixing Cao, Weijian Zhang and Fulco Ludwig 21. Whither Crop Physiology? Antonio Hall and Victor Sadras
