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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Facing the Growing Needs of Mankind 1: Food Security? We Are Losing Ground Fast! F W T Penning de Vries 2: The Future of World, National and Household Food Security, F Heidhues 3: Crop Science Research to Assure Food Security, K G Cassman 4: Modifying the Composition of Plant Foods for Better Human Health, R F Hurrell 5: Grasslands and Rangelands, R J Wilkins Part 2: Stress in Crops and Cropping Systems 6: Abiotic Stresses, Plant Reactions, and New Approaches Towards Understanding Stress Tolerance, H J Bohnert and R A Bressan 7: Plant Stress Factors - Their Impact on Productivity of Cropping Systems, U R Sangakkara 8: Optimizing Water Use, N C Turner 9: Abiotic Stresses and Staple Crops, G O Edmeades, M Cooper, R Lafitte, C Zinselmeier, J -M Ribaut, J E Habben, C Löffler, and M Bänziger 10: Biotic Stresses in Crops, R Nelson 11: Management of Complex Interactions for Growth Resources and of Biotic Stresses in Agroforestry, C K Ong and M R Rao Part 3: Diversity in Agroecosystems 12: Optimizing Crop Diversification, D J Connor 13: Biodiversity of Agroecosystems: Past, Present and Uncertain Future, P J Edwards and A Hilbeck 14: Conservation and Utilization of Biodiversity in the Andean Ecoregion, W W Collins 15: The Role of Landscape Heterogeneity in the Sustainability of Cropping Systems, J Baudry and F Papy Part 4: Designing Crops and Cropping Systems for the Future 16: Cropping Systems for the Future, J Boiffin, E Malezieux and D Picard 17: Will Yield Barriers Limit Future Rice Production? J E Sheehy 18: New Crops for the Twenty-first Century, J Janick 19: Plant Biotechnology - Methods, Goals, and Achievements, U Sonnewald and K Herbers 20: Transgenic Plants for Sustainable Crop Production, B Keller and E Hütter Carabias Part 5: Position Papers 21: Crop Science: Scientific and Ethical Challenges to Meet Human Needs, L O Fresco 22: Declaration of Hamburg, J H J Spiertz (ed)
