Crop Science: Progress and ProspectsCABI, 2001 M09 28 - 416 pages This text includes keynote invited papers from the Third International Crop Science Congress held in Hamburg, Germany in August 2000. The papers provide an overview of the major issues confronting crop science today and in the future. |
Contents
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Crop Science Research to Assure Food Security | 33 |
Modifying the Composition of Plant Foods for Better Human | 53 |
Abiotic Stresses Plant Reaction and New Approaches Towards | 81 |
Their Impact on Productivity of Cropping | 101 |
B Keller Institut für Pflanzenbiologie Universität Zürich Zollikerstrasse | 107 |
Optimizing Water Use | 119 |
Abiotic Stresses and Staple Crops | 137 |
Past Present and Uncertain | 213 |
Conservation and Utilization of Biodiversity in the Andean Eco | 231 |
The Role of Landscape Heterogeneity in the Sustainability of | 243 |
Designing Crops and Cropping Systems for the Future | 261 |
Will Yield Barriers Limit Future Rice Production? | 281 |
New Crops for the 21st Century | 307 |
Methods Goals and Achievements | 329 |
Transgenic Plants for Sustainable Crop Production | 351 |
Biotic Stresses in Crops | 155 |
Management of Complex Interactions for Growth Resources and | 175 |
Diversity in Agroecosystems | 191 |
Position Papers | 369 |
Index | 385 |
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