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Crop Physiology Case Histories for Major Crops

  • 1st Edition - December 5, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Victor O. Sadras, Daniel F. Calderini
  • Language: English

Crop Physiology: Case Histories of Major Crops updates the physiology of broad-acre crops with a focus on the genetic, environmental and management drivers of developme… Read more

Description

Crop Physiology: Case Histories of Major Crops updates the physiology of broad-acre crops with a focus on the genetic, environmental and management drivers of development, capture and efficiency in the use of radiation, water and nutrients, the formation of yield and aspects of quality.

These physiological process are presented in a double context of challenges and solutions. The challenges to increase plant-based food, fodder, fiber and energy against the backdrop of population increase, climate change, dietary choices and declining public funding for research and development in agriculture are unprecedented and urgent. The proximal technological solutions to these challenges are genetic improvement and agronomy. Hence, the premise of the book is that crop physiology is most valuable when it engages meaningfully with breeding and agronomy.

With contributions from 92 leading scientists from around the world, each chapter deals with a crop: maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum and oat; quinoa; soybean, field pea, chickpea, peanut, common bean, lentil, lupin and faba bean; sunflower and canola; potato, cassava, sugar beet and sugarcane; and cotton.

Key features

  • A crop-based approach to crop physiology in a G x E x M context
  • Captures the perspectives of global experts on 22 crops

Readership

Students in agronomy, plant genetics and crop science. Agronomists; plant geneticists and plant breeding professionals; crop physiologists, ecologists, and ecophysiologists; plant physiologists

Table of contents

1. Maize

2. Rice

3. Wheat

4. Barley

5. Sorghum

6. Oat

7. Quinoa

8. Soybean

9. Field Pea

10. Chickpea

11. Peanut

12. Common bean

13. Lentil

14. Lupin

15. Faba bean

16. Sunflower

17. Canola

18. Potato

19. Cassava

20. Sugar beet

21. Sugarcane

22. Cotton

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 5, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Victor O. Sadras

Dr. Victor O. Sadras is a crop ecophysiologist with expertise in the adaptation of crops to environmental stresses, including water deficit, extreme temperatures, nutrient deficiency, soil physical and chemical constraints, pathogens, and insects. He has studied and modeled aspects of the water, carbon, and nitrogen economies of annual crops (wheat, field pea, chickpea, sunflower, maize, soybean, cotton) and perennial crops (grapevine and olive) in rain-fed and irrigated systems.
Affiliations and expertise
South Australian R&D Institute, Australia

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Daniel F. Calderini

Dr. Daniel F. Calderini has been a Full Professor at the Plant Production and Plant Protection Institute of Universidad Austral de Chile since 2002. He specializes in the physiology of crops and cereals. Dr. Calderini was honored with the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award. He is the coordinator of the ‘Sustainable Intensification of Extensive Crop Production’ network within the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development. Additionally, he has served as the head of the Graduate School and the Doctorate Program at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. His physiological research has focused on pea, lupin, rapeseed, sunflower, quinoa, and temperate cereals.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of the Plant Production and Plant Protection Institute, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

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