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 improvement and agronomy, this book addresses the challenges of environmentally sound production of bulk and quality food, fodder, fibre and energy which will be faced over the next decade.
Chapter 1 Sustainable Agriculture and Crop Physiology
Chapter 2 Farming Systems of Australia: Exploiting the Synergy between Genetic Improvement and Agronomy
Chapter 3 Farming Systems of Argentina: Yeild Constraints and Risk Management
Chapter 4 Improving Farming Systems in Northern European Conditions
Chapter 5 Cereal-Based Cropping Systems in Asia: Nutrition and Disease Management
Chapter 6 Improving Productivity to Face Water Scarcity in Irrigated Agriculture
Chapter 7 Crop Rasiation Capture and Use Efficiency: A Framework for Crop Growth Analysis
Chapter 8 Quantifying Crop Responses to Nitrogen Deficiency and Avenues to Improve Nitrogen Nitrogen Use Efficiency
Chapter 9 Darwinuan Agriculture: Real, Imaginary and Complex Trade-offs as Constraints and Opportunities
Chapter 10 Modelling Crop Improvement in G x E x M Framework via Gene-Trait-Phenotype Relationships
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