Books in Crop physiology and biochemistry

Crop Physiology

3rd Edition
November 1, 2025
Ignacio Ciampitti + 3 more
English

Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems, Third Edition continues to provide the most comprehensive and current guide to crop science. From breeding and genetic improvements to adapting to climate change and different farming systems, this book offers a practical tool for understanding the relationships and challenges of successful cropping. It also addresses the need for environmentally sound production of food, fodder, fiber, and energy. With its focus on genetic improvement and agronomy, the book is crucial for those involved in modern agriculture.Addition... the third edition introduces a new section on crop ecophysiology, providing insights into the latest scientific advances and practical implementations. It discusses challenges like soil and water scarcity, climate change, and sustainable agricultural practices. The book emphasizes the importance of genetic improvements and agronomic strategies for achieving higher yields. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students seeking to navigate the complexities of contemporary agriculture and to meet both quantitative and qualitative production targets.

Sorghum and Millets

3rd Edition
July 1, 2025
John Taylor + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry, Technology, and Nutritional Attributes, Third Edition is the leading resource for state-of-art knowledge on grain science and utilization surrounding sorghum and millets. The book covers important scientific knowledge, including basic science—genetics, chemistry, and biochemistry—food chemistry, nutritional quality and health-promoting attributes, agronomy, and food and feed processing technologies. Other sections delve into structure, chemistry, biochemistry, grain components, and the technologies used for food processing. Additionally, it provides holistic and complete information about all technologies in the sorghum and millets food value chain, from genomics-based breeding to grain- and product quality assurance.Sorghum and the millets are the 5th and 6th most important cereal grains in terms of production and are cultivated across the world. They have a very wide range of end-uses as traditional staple foods and beverages, modern processed foods, and with respect to sorghum, industrial applications, including biofuels, and as an animal and aquaculture feedstuff.

Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops

1st Edition
November 28, 2023
Muhammad Tehseen Azhar + 3 more
English
Paperback
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Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops: Molecular and Breeding Approaches is a comprehensive overview of important food crops whose vitamin and mineral enhancement can contribute significantly to improved food and nutrition security. Providing the latest information on crops including cereals, oilseeds, legumes and vegetables, this book provides details of agronomic and molecular resources for enhanced mineral production. Each chapter focuses on a specific food crop and the unique opportunities offered by each through breeding practices. This will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics and those in industry who are exploring biotechnological approaches as a powerful tool to combat malnutrition.

Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress

1st Edition
April 8, 2021
Aryadeep Roychoudhury + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress focuses on the different forms of environmental stress related to heavy metal, metalloid and nutrient deficiency that have the potential to inflict major damages to crop plants, leading to a massive decrease in crop yield and productivity. The book presents the current state of knowledge of the biochemical and molecular regulation of several classes of membrane transporters related to the uptake of metals/metalloids and nutrient elements during different stresses and their probable mechanisms of operation in plant stress tolerance. Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress provides a comprehensive discussion that will help in mitigating multiple forms of stresses utilizing transporter proteins. Edited by leading experts and written by a global team of knowledgeable contributors, this book will further stimulate research in the field of transporter proteins and will foster further interests for researchers, academicians and scientists worldwide. It is complimented by its companion book titled Transporters and Plant Osmotic Stress.

Crop Physiology Case Histories for Major Crops

1st Edition
December 5, 2020
Victor Sadras + 1 more
English
Paperback
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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.

Fruit Crops

1st Edition
November 27, 2019
Anoop Kumar Srivastava + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Fruit Crops: Diagnosis and Management of Nutrient Constraints is the first and only resource to holistically relate fruits as a nutritional source for human health to the state-of-the-art methodologies currently used to diagnose and manage nutritional constraints placed on those fruits. This book explores a variety of advanced management techniques, including open field hydroponic, fertigation/bio-fert... the use of nano-fertilizers, sensors-based nutrient management, climate- smart integrated soil fertility management, inoculation with microbial consortium, and endophytes backed up by ecophysiology of fruit crops. These intricate issues are effectively presented, including real-world applications and future insights.

Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress

1st Edition
September 17, 2019
Palmiro Poltronieri + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improvement of Resistance to Biotic Stress applies biotechnology insights that seek to improve plant genomes, thus helping them achieve higher resistance and optimal hormone signaling to increase crop yield. The book provides an analysis of the current state-of-the-art in plant biotechnology as applied to improving resistance to biotic stress. In recent years, significant progress has been made towards understanding the interplay between plants and their hosts, particularly the role of plant immunity in regulating, attenuating or neutralizing invading pathogens. As a result, there is a great need to integrate these insights with methods from biotechnology.

Sweet Potato

1st Edition
May 18, 2019
Taihua Mu + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Sweet Potato: Chemistry, Processing, and Nutrition presents foundational information, including identification, analysis, and use of chemical components from sweet potato in a variety of food and nonfood uses. Sweet potatoes can be easily propagated, are rich source of carbohydrates and functional components, and are highly productive, which makes them most suitable for production of staple and functional foods. With the increasing population and the challenges of providing healthy food to the world, there is an increasing consumer demand for new and better sweet potato products, particularly for those in developing countries. Providing a brief description of the specific sweet potato components, their role during processing and strategies for quality optimization, this book also explores novel methods of sweet potato starch, protein, and pectin modification providing students, researchers, and technologists working in the area of food science and others with the most recent information and state-of-the-art technology for developing new and beneficial uses of sweet potato.

Postharvest Physiology and Biochemistry of Fruits and Vegetables

1st Edition
October 31, 2018
Elhadi M. Yahia + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Postharvest Physiology and Biochemistry of Fruits and Vegetables presents an updated, interrelated and sequenced view of the contribution of fruits and vegetables on human health, their aspects of plant metabolism, physical and chemical/composition... changes during the entire fruit development lifecycle, the physiological disorders and biochemical effects of modified/controlled atmospheres, and the biotechnology of horticultural crops. The book is written specifically for those interested in preharvest and postharvest crop science and the impact of physiological and biochemical changes on their roles as functional foods.

Sorghum and Millets

2nd Edition
October 12, 2018
John Taylor + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry, Technology and Nutritional Attributes, Second Edition, is a new, fully revised edition of this widely read book published by AACC International. With an internationally recognized editorial team, this new edition covers, in detail, the history, breeding, production, grain chemistry, nutritional quality and handling of sorghum and millets. Chapters focus on biotechnology, grain structure and chemistry, nutritional properties, traditional and modern usage in foods and beverages, and industrial and non-food applications. The book will be of interest to academics researching all aspects of sorghum and millets, from breeding to usage. In addition, it is essential reading for those in the food industry who are tasked with the development of new products using the grains.

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Books in Crop physiology and biochemistry

Crop Physiology

Sorghum and Millets

Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops

Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress

Crop Physiology Case Histories for Major Crops

Fruit Crops

Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress

Sweet Potato

Postharvest Physiology and Biochemistry of Fruits and Vegetables

Sorghum and Millets