
Crop Physiology
Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems
- 3rd Edition - December 1, 2025
- Editors: Ignacio Ciampitti, Daniela Bustos-Korts, Daniel Calderini, Victor Sadras
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 2 0 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 2 0 9 - 1
Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems, Third Edition, continues to provide updated insights in crop science; the premis… Read more
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- 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.
- Updates aspects of the water, nitrogen, and carbon economy of crops.
- New chapters on heat, frost, waterlogging, phosphorous, and biological nitrogen fixation.
- A new section on integration in a context of sustainability.
1. Rice-based cropping systems in south-east 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
- 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.
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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.
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Daniel Calderini
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