Crop Science (Hardcover, 2019)

I. Introduction Crop Science and Technology.- II. Growth and development.- Crop Development Related to Temperature and Photoperiod.- Genotype by Environment Interaction and Adaptation.- Crop Photosynthesis.- Crop Radiation Capture and Use Efficiency.- Roots and Uptake of Water and Nutrients.- Crop Responses to Available Soil Water.- Crop Responses to Nitrogen.- Co-limitation Water x N. III. Crop yield and quality.- Crop Yields Around the World: Closing the Gap and Raising the Potential.- Genetic improvement of field crops associated with physiological Attributes.- Biomass Crops for Biofuels and Bio-based Products.- Grain Quality in Oil and Cereal Crops.- Management strategies to improve oil quality.- Source/sink.- Seed Dormancy and Agriculture, Physiology.- IV. Environmental stresses.- Agroecological Basis for Managing Biotic Constraints.- Crop Diseases, Management and Control of Integrated Pest Management.- Increasing Salinity Tolerance of Crops.- Irrigation Management for Efficient Crop Production.- Lodging Resistance in Cereals.- Resilience to Heat stresses.- Waterlogging.- V. Crop management.- Agronomic Interactions with CO2 Sequestration.- Cropping Systems: Shaping Nature.- Fertilizer Science and Technology.- Spatial Crop Structure in Agricultural Systems.- Simulation Models as Tools for Crop Management.- Intercropping.- Mixture of cultivars. VI. Genetic improvement, phenotyping and climate change.- Crop Breeding for Sustainable Agriculture, Genomics Interventions.- Marker-Assisted Breeding in Crops.- Combining QTLs and ecophysiological models.- Plant Breeding Under a Changing Climate.- Phenotyping: the new crop breeding frontier.- Molecular tools to improve crops.- Index.