Overview
- Editors:
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Xinyou Yin
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Department of Plant Sciences Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Paul C. Struik
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Department of Plant Sciences Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- The first book that describes a new research frontier in crop science
- Attractive for scientists from both domains of fundamental biology and applied plant science
- This Work could be instrumental in redefining future research agenda in crop science
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Valentina Baldazzi, Nadia Bertin, Michel Génard, Hélène Gautier, Elsa Desnoues, Bénédicte Quilot-Turion
Pages 1-31
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- Lifeng Xu, Gerhard Buck-Sorlin
Pages 33-53
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- Daniela Bustos-Korts, Marcos Malosetti, Scott Chapman, Fred van Eeuwijk
Pages 55-82
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- Michel Génard, Mohamed-Mahmoud Memmah, Bénédicte Quilot-Turion, Gilles Vercambre, Valentina Baldazzi, Jacques Le Bot et al.
Pages 83-104
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- Delphine Luquet, Camila Rebolledo, Lauriane Rouan, Jean-Christophe Soulie, Michael Dingkuhn
Pages 105-127
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- Thomas R. Sinclair, Jyostna M. Devi, Thomas E. Carter Jr.
Pages 129-146
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- Graeme Hammer, Charlie Messina, Erik van Oosterom, Scott Chapman, Vijaya Singh, Andrew Borrell et al.
Pages 147-162
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- Kenneth J. Boote, C. Eduardo Vallejos, James W. Jones, Melanie J. Correll
Pages 163-192
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- Xinyou Yin, Paul C. Struik, Junfei Gu, Huaqi Wang
Pages 193-218
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- Xinyou Yin, Paul C. Struik
Pages 219-227
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Back Matter
Pages 229-233
About this book
The sequencing of genomes has been completed for an increasing number of crop species, and researchers have now succeeded in isolating and characterising many important QTLs/genes. High expectations from genomics, however, are waving back toward the recognition that crop physiology is also important for realistic improvement of crop productivity. Complex processes and networks along various hierarchical levels of crop growth and development can be thoroughly understood with the help of their mathematical description – modelling. The further practical application of these understandings also requires quantitative predictions. In order to better support design, engineering and breeding for new crops and cultivars for improving agricultural production under global warming and climate change, there is an increasing call for an interdisciplinary research approach, which combines modern genetics and genomics, traditional physiology and biochemistry, and advanced bioinformatics and modelling. Such an interdisciplinary approach has been practised in various research groups for many years. However, it does not seem to be fully covered in the format of book publications. We want to initiate a book project on crop systems biology - narrowing the gaps between genotypes and phenotypes and the gaps between crop modelling and genetics/genomics, for publication in 2013/2014. The book will be meant for those scientists and graduate students from fundamental plant biology and applied crop science who are interested in bridging the gap between these two fields. We have invited a group of scientists (who have very good track records in publishing excellent papers in this field or in a closely related area) to contribute chapters to this new book, and they have agreed to do so.​
