Systems approaches for agricultural development Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2-6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand - Vries, Frits Penning de.; Teng, Paul.; Metselaar, Klaas; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993)
Session 1. Crop Production: Genotypic Constraints -- Designing improved plant types: a breeder's viewpoint -- Improvement of rice plant type concepts: systems research enables interaction of physiology and breeding -- Designing improved plant types for the semiarid tropics: agronomists' viewpoints -- Simulation in pre-testing of rice genotypes in Tamil Nadu -- Genetic specific data for crop modeling -- Session 2. Crop Production: Weather Constraints -- Agro-ecological zoning using crop growth simulation models: characterization of wheat environments of India -- An agroclimatic approach to agricultural development in India -- Optimising harvest operations against weather risk -- The impacts of climate change on rice yield: evaluation of the efficacity of different modeling approaches -- Rice production and climate change -- Session 3. Crop Production: Soil Constraints -- A systems approach to the assessment and improvement of water use efficiency in the North China Plain -- Soil data for crop-soil models -- Root ventilation, rhizosphere modification, and nutrient uptake by rice -- Adjustment of nitrogen inputs in response to a seasonal forecast in a region of high climatic risk -- Maize modeling in Malawi: a tool for soil fertility research and development -- Session 4. Crop Production: Biological Constraints -- Pest damage relations at the field level -- Quantification of components contributing to rate-reducing resistance in a plant virus pathosystem -- The rice leaf blast simulation model 'Epiblast' -- Session 5. Farming Systems -- Potential for systems simulation in farming systems research? -- Making farming systems a more objective and quantitative research tool -- Options for agricultural development: a new quantitative approach -- Options for agricultural development: a case study for Mali's fifth Region -- Multicriteria optimization for a sustainable agriculture -- Simulation of multiple cropping systems with CropSys -- Optimization of cropping patterns in tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu, India -- Agricultural development in Thailand -- A methodological framework to explore long-term options for land use -- Session 6. Education, Training and Technology Transfer -- Decision support systems for agricultural development -- Constraints in technology transfer: a user's perspective with a focus on IPM, Philippines -- Postgraduate education in agricultural systems: the AIT experience -- The IBSNAT project -- Building capacity for systems research at national agricultural research centres: SARP's experience.
Keywords: Plant science; Botany; Plant Sciences