Crop Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Savin, Roxana (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Slafer, Gustavo A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series
• Subjects: Agriculture.; Chemistry.; Climate change.; Plant genetics.; Sustainable development.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Climate Change.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Sustainable Development.

This book offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art source reference for understanding the functions and mechanisms responsible for yield and quality determination under a range of conditions. By uncovering relationships and challenges of successful and scalable crop management and breeding, this...

Table of Contents:

• Agroecological Basis for Managing Biotic Constraints
• Agronomic Interactions with CO2 Sequestration
• Crop Development Related to Temperature and Photoperiod
• Crop Radiation Capture and Use Efficiency
• Crop Responses to Available Soil Water
• Crop Responses to Nitrogen
• Crop Science and Technology, Introduction
• Cropping Systems: Shaping Nature
• Fertilizer Science and Technology
• Genotype by Environment Interaction and Adaptation
• Improving Grain Quality in Oil and Cereal Crops
• Integrated Pest Management
• Irrigation Management for Efficient Crop Production
• Lodging Resistance in Cereals
• Marker-Assisted Breeding in Crops
• Phenotyping: New Crop Breeding Frontier
• Plant Breeding Under a Changing Climate
• Roots and Uptake of Water and Nutrients
• Seed Dormancy and Agriculture and Physiology
• Simulation Models as Tools for Crop Management
• Source-sink Relationships in Cereals and Legumes
• Spatial Crop Structure in Agricultural Systems
• Heat Tolerance for Sustainable Productivity.