Crop physiology applications for genetic improvement and agronomy /
Contemporary agriculture confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against the background of soil and water scarcity, world-wide and regional shifts in the patterns of land use driven by both climate ch...
| Other Authors: | Sadras, Victor., Calderini, Daniel., ScienceDirect (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; Boston :
Academic Press,
[2009]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Subjects: |
Crops
-- Physiology.
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| Summary: |
Contemporary agriculture confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against the background of soil and water scarcity, world-wide and regional shifts in the patterns of land use driven by both climate change and the need to develop crop-based sources of energy, and the environmental and social aspects of agricultural sustainability. Hence, this book compiles a multi-authored perspective on the ways in which crop physiology could be integrated with other disciplines. With a focus on genetic improvem. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references. FRONT COVER; CROP PHYSIOLOGY: APPLICATIONS FOR GENETIC IMPROVEMENT AND AGRONOMY; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1 Sustainable Agriculture and Crop Physiology; PART 1 Farming Systems: Case Studies; PART 2 Capture and Efficiency in the Use of Resources: Quantitative Frameworks; PART 3 Crop Physiology, Genetic Improvement and Agronomy; INDEX; COLOUR PLATES. Contemporary agriculture confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against the background of soil and water scarcity, world-wide and regional shifts in the patterns of land use driven by both climate change and the need to develop crop-based sources of energy, and the environmental and social aspects of agricultural sustainability. Hence, this book compiles a multi-authored perspective on the ways in which crop physiology could be integrated with other disciplines. With a focus on genetic improvem. Elsevier ScienceDirect All Books. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780123744319 0123744318 9780080922294 0080922295 |