Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Crop Physiology Case Histories For Major Crops
Brand: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Barcode: 9780128191941
Pages: 778 Pages
Publication Date: 12/10/2020
Category: Agronomy & Crop Production