Crop Science ：Progress and Prospects

Publication subTitle ：Progress and Prospects

Author： Nosberger   J.;Geiger   H.H.;Struik   P.C.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2001

E-ISBN: 9780851998916

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851995304

Subject： P3 Geophysics;P5 Geology;S1 Basic Agriculture Science

Keyword： Soil Science Sedimentology Limnology (Freshwater) Fertilizers and Manures

Language： ENG

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Description

This book includes keynote invited papers from the Third International Crop Science Congress held in Hamburg, Germany in August 2000. All papers have been prepared and revised within strict editorial guidelines to ensure that the work is a balanced review text that provides an overview of the major issues confronting crop science today and in the future. It therefore represents a suitable advanced textbook for students as well as offering research workers concise overviews of topics adjacent to their areas of research. Contributors include leading world authorities from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Chapter

Contributors

Preface

Foreword

Congress Sponsors

1 Food Security? We Are Losing Ground Fast!

2 The Future of World, National and Household Food Security

3 Crop Science Research To Assure Food Security

4 Modifying the Composition of Plant Foods for Better Human Health

5 Facing the Growing Needs of Mankind – Grasslands and Rangelands

6 Abiotic Stresses, Plant Reactions and New Approaches Towards Understanding Stress Tolerance

7 Plant Stress Factors: Their Impact on Productivity of Cropping Systems

8 Optimizing Water Use

9 Abiotic Stresses and Staple Crops

10 Biotic Stresses in Crops

11 Management of Complex Interactions for Growth Resources and of Biotic Stresses in Agroforestry

12 Optimizing Crop Diversification

13 Biodiversity of Agroecosystems: Past, Present and Uncertain Future

14 Conservation and Utilization of Biodiversity in the Andean Ecoregion

15 The Role of Landscape Heterogeneity in the Sustainability of Cropping Systems

16 Cropping Systems for the Future

17 Will Yield Barriers Limit Future Rice Production?

18 New Crops for the 21st Century

19 Plant Biotechnology: Methods, Goals and Achievements

20 Transgenic Plants for Sustainable Crop Production

21 Crop Science: Scientific and Ethical Challenges to Meet Human Needs1

22 Declaration of Hamburg

Index

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