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Author:   Professor Sayed Azam-Ali (CEO Crops for the Future and University of Nottingham Malaysia Professor of Global Food Security, Crops for the Future, Malaysia) ,  Geoffrey Squire (Scottish Crop Research Institute Dundee, UK.)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780851991368

ISBN 10:   085199136
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   17 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: Resource Flows and Currencies 1: Solar radiation   2:  The solar spectrum and plant processes    3: The fate of radiation in crop systems 4: Water    5: The hydrological cycle    6: Soil water energy    7: Plant water energy    8: Evaporation    9: The fate of water in crop systems    10: Conclusions Part II: Essential Choices: Genotype, Timing, Configuration 11: Genotype (what?)    12: Evolution and genetic manipulation    13: Characteristics of the main crop types    14: Genetic modification within species  15: Conclusions 16: Timing (when?)    17: Characteristics of timing in crops    18: Development and resource capture    19: Environmental control of timing    20: Regulation of timing by management and choice of cultivar    21: Conclusions 22: Configuration (how?)    23: Plant populations    24: Mixed cropping    25: Calculating the performance of intercrops    26: Conclusions Part III: Integration 27: Manipulating fluxes    28: A simple frame of reference    29: Empirical input-yield responses    30: Understanding the input-yield response    31: Scale and integration: extending the principles 32: Synthesis    33: Some major developments in agricultural research    34: Assessing the potential of underutilised crops - a case study of bambara groundnut    35: The status and contribution of agronomy

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Professor Sayed Azam-Ali BSc (Hons), PhD is the Chief Executive Officer of Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) the world's first centre research on underutilised plants for food and non-food uses. He is also the Chair in Global Food Security at the University of Nottingham. After his first degree in Plant Biology at the University of Wales, Professor Azam-Ali completed his PhD in Environmental Physics at the University of Nottingham in 1983. He then worked as a plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India, returning to Nottingham where he became Professor of Tropical Agronomy in 2006. At Nottingham, Professor Azam-Ali co-ordinated three major EU-funded Programmes on bambara groundnut and was a principal partner in two other EU programmes. He was also Principal Investigator for six UK DFiD projects that included bambara groundnut. In 2008, Professor Azam-Ali was appointed as Vice-Provost (Research and Internationalisation) at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and in 2011 became founding CEO of Crops For the Future Research Centre (CFFRC), the world's first centre for research solely on the world's underutilised and forgotten crops. In 2020 he became CEO of Crops For the Future (CFF) based in Cambridge, UK. Sayed Azam-Ali is a past Chair of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture. In 2021 he was awarded an OBE for 'services to underutilised crops and increasing global food security' in the Queen's New Year's Honours List.

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