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.

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 volume addresses the challenges of environmentally sound production of bulk and quality food, fodder, fiber, and energy which are of ongoing international concern. Contemporary agriculture and crop management confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against a background of climate change, including soil and water scarcity and higher temperatures, and the environmental and social aspects of agricultural sustainability. This book views crop production as an active source of methods, theories, ideas, and tools for application in genetic improvement and agronomy.