Translating Physiological Tools to Augment Crop Breeding

This book covers different physiological processes, tools, and their applications in crop breeding, emphasizing their importance in crop improvement and future research areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning. It is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and students in agriculture, physiology, botany, ecology, and environmental sciences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 457 pages
Publication date: 20 April 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive book delves into diverse physiological processes, tools, and their invaluable applications in crop breeding. Each chapter focuses on a specific trait or physiological process, highlighting its significance in crops, providing comprehensive phenotyping information, and showcasing successful examples across various crops. It encompasses a wide range of physiological topics, including advancements in field phenotyping, the role of endophytic fungi, metabolomics, the utilization of stable isotopes, high-throughput phenomics, transpiration efficiency, root phenotyping, and root exudates for enhanced resource use efficiency. Additionally, it explores cuticular wax and its applications, advances in photosynthetic studies, leaf spectral reflectance, and physiological breeding in resilient crops like millets. Furthermore, the book addresses emerging research areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, offering valuable insights for both academics and researchers.

This contributed volume serves as a valuable resource, compiling all application aspects of physiological tools along with their advanced research in these fields. It is of utmost importance for both academics and researchers, as it provides a readily accessible reference for quick understanding and utilization. The book is particularly relevant to teachers, researchers, climate change scientists, capacity builders, policy makers, and undergraduate and graduate students studying agriculture, physiology, botany, ecology, and environmental sciences. Furthermore, national and international agricultural scientists will find this book to be a valuable asset.

Weight: 869g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811974977
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023