Crop Physiology
Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems
- 3rd Edition - December 1, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ignacio Ciampitti, Daniela Bustos-Korts, Daniel Calderini, Victor Sadras
- Language: English
Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems, Third Edition, provides updated perspectives on crop science at the interface of… Read more
Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems, Third Edition, provides updated perspectives on crop science at the interface of plant breeding and agronomy. It builds on the premise that farmers rely on two key sets of tools: varieties (what to grow) and practices (how to grow). Within this context, crop physiology plays a central role in guiding both breeding strategies and agronomic decisions.
This edition is designed for researchers and advanced students interested in the fundamentals of crop ecophysiology, including the use and efficiency of water, nitrogen, and carbon, as well as crop adaptation to environmental stresses such as heat, frost, drought, waterlogging, phosphorous, and biological nitrogen fixation. The volume brings together region-specific insights, with detailed chapters on physiological traits and processes that underpin crop performance and productivity in diverse systems.
This edition is designed for researchers and advanced students interested in the fundamentals of crop ecophysiology, including the use and efficiency of water, nitrogen, and carbon, as well as crop adaptation to environmental stresses such as heat, frost, drought, waterlogging, phosphorous, and biological nitrogen fixation. The volume brings together region-specific insights, with detailed chapters on physiological traits and processes that underpin crop performance and productivity in diverse systems.
- Features expert insights from a team of editors and authors from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
- Provides a view of crop physiology as a source of theories and methods to inform genetic improvement and agronomy.
- Introduces rice-based cropping systems of SE Asia, cereal-based and high-value perennial cropping systems in Spain, and crop-livestock-forestry farming in Brazil.
- A new section on integration in the context of sustainability.
Agronomists; plant geneticists and plant breeding professionals; crop physiologists, ecologists, and ecophysiologists; plant physiologists; horticultural scientists; those involved with grain and cereal crops and sustainable agriculture; environmental microbiologists; Students of plant breeding and crop ecophysiology.
Section 1: Cropping Systems
1. Rice-based cropping systems in Southeast Asia
2. Cropping systems in Spain: a paradigm of Mediterranean agriculture
3. Farming systems in Brazil: Evolution, limitations, and opportunities
Section 2: Development
4. Development of wheat and barley
5. Reappraisal of nitrogen dynamics and crop responses for an effective use of nitrogen by major field crops
6. Nitrogen fixation in legumes and cereals
7. Root traits for improving phosphorus acquisition efficiency
8. Advances in high-throughput functional root phenotyping in the field: Implications for breeding and agronomy
9. Waterlogging stress on cereal, legume, and oilseed crops
10. Low temperature stress in annual and perennial crops
11. Heat
12. The phenotype of plants in crop stands: Implications of plant-plant relations for breeding and agronomy
13. Complexity of cropping systems
1. Rice-based cropping systems in Southeast Asia
2. Cropping systems in Spain: a paradigm of Mediterranean agriculture
3. Farming systems in Brazil: Evolution, limitations, and opportunities
Section 2: Development
4. Development of wheat and barley
5. Reappraisal of nitrogen dynamics and crop responses for an effective use of nitrogen by major field crops
6. Nitrogen fixation in legumes and cereals
7. Root traits for improving phosphorus acquisition efficiency
8. Advances in high-throughput functional root phenotyping in the field: Implications for breeding and agronomy
9. Waterlogging stress on cereal, legume, and oilseed crops
10. Low temperature stress in annual and perennial crops
11. Heat
12. The phenotype of plants in crop stands: Implications of plant-plant relations for breeding and agronomy
13. Complexity of cropping systems
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: December 1, 2025
- Language: English
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Ignacio Ciampitti
Dr. Ignacio A. Ciampitti received his degree in Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. M.S. Plant Nutrition, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Crop Physiology, Purdue University. His research program focuses on integrating field, statistics, remote sensing and modeling research for understanding plant responses. He is currently leading efforts for Digital Agriculture with work at national and international scale. Dr. Ciampitti has authored or co-authored + 200 peer-reviewed articles and acted as main editor (with P.V. Vara Prasad) of the book, Sorghum: A State of the Art and Future Perspetives. Currently, he is an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Agronomy and technical editor for Crop Science journal, and part of the Editorial Board for Remote Sensing, Field Crops Research, and Forecasting journals. He is also a board member of the Crop Science Society of America.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Quantitative Agronomy/Digital Agriculture, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United StatesDB
Daniela Bustos-Korts
Dr. Daniela Bustos-Korts studied Agricultural Sciences and later an MSc in Crop Physiology at Universidad Austral de Chile. She did a PhD in Statistical Genetics at Biometris, Wageningen University, Netherlands. After her PhD she worked at the same university as a postdoctoral researcher in projects related to genetic diversity in wheat and barley and on the prediction of genotype by environment interaction integrating statistical models and crop growth models. Later, she worked as an assistant Professor at Wageningen University, teaching MSc and PhD courses in topics related to the application of statistics to plant breeding. Daniela currently works at Universidad Austral de Chile, where she leads projects integrating genomic, phenomic and environmental information to predict wheat adaptation to drought. She is also member of the Editorial board of Theoretical and Applied Genetics and a guest Editor at In Silico Plants.
Affiliations and expertise
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, ChileDC
Daniel Calderini
Dr. Daniel Calderini is a full professor of the Plant Production and Plant Protection Institute of Universidad Austral de Chile since 2002. He has specialised in the Physiology of Crops and Cereals. Dr. Calderini was distinguished with The People's Republic of China Friendship Award. He is Coordinator of the Network "Sustainable Intensification of Extensive Crop Production” of the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development. He was the head of the Graduate School and the Doctorate Program of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. His physiological research was carried out on pea, lupin, rapeseed, sunflower and quinoa in addition to temperate cereals.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of the Plant Production and Plant Protection Institute, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, ChileVS
Victor Sadras
Victor Sadras is a crop ecophysiologist with interest in the adaptation of crops to environmental stresses, including water deficit, extreme temperatures, nutrient deficit, soil physical and chemical constraints, pathogens and insects. He has measured and modelled aspects of the water, carbon and nitrogen economies of annual (wheat, field pea, chickpea, sunflower, maize, soybean, cotton) and perennial crops (grapevine, olive) in rain-fed and irrigated systems.
Affiliations and expertise
South Australian R&D Institute, Australia