This book includes keynote invited papers from the Third International Crop Science Congress held in Hamburg, Germany in August 2000. All papers have been prepared and revised within strict editorial guidelines to ensure that the work is a balanced review text that provides an overview of the major issues confronting crop science today and in the future.

It therefore represents a suitable advanced textbook for students as well as offering research workers concise overviews of topics adjacent to their areas of research. Contributors include leading world authorities from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Ideal for those involved in crop science and related plant, soil and environmental sciences.

CONTENTS:
PART ONE: Facing the Growing Needs of Mankind

SECTION ONE: Food Security? We Are Losing Ground Fast! F W T Penning de Vries

SECTION TWO: The Future of World, National and Household Food Security, F Heidhues

SECTION THREE: Crop Science Research to Assure Food Security, K G Cassman

SECTION FOUR: Modifying the Composition of Plant Foods for Better Human Health, R F Hurrell

SECTION FIVE: Grasslands and Rangelands, R J Wilkins

PART 2: Stress in Crops and Cropping Systems

SECTION SIX: Abiotic Stresses, Plant Reactions, and New Approaches Towards Understanding Stress Tolerance, H J Bohnert and R A Bressan

SECTION SEVEN: Plant Stress Factors - Their Impact on Productivity of Cropping Systems, U R Sangakkara

SECTION EIGHT: Optimizing Water Use, N C Turner

SECTION NINE: Abiotic Stresses and Staple Crops, G O Edmeades, M Cooper, R Lafitte, C Zinselmeier, J -M Ribaut, J E Habben, C Löffler, and M Bänziger

SECTION TEN: Biotic Stresses in Crops, R Nelson

SECTION ELEVEN: Management of Complex Interactions for Growth Resources and of Biotic Stresses in Agroforestry, C K Ong and M R Rao

PART THREE: Diversity in Agroecosystems

SECTION TWELVE: Optimizing Crop Diversification, D J Connor

SECTION THIRTEEN: Biodiversity of Agroecosystems: Past, Present and Uncertain Future, P J Edwards and A Hilbeck

SECTION FOURTEEN: Conservation and Utilization of Biodiversity in the Andean Ecoregion, W W Collins

SECTION FIFTEEN: The Role of Landscape Heterogeneity in the Sustainability of Cropping Systems, J Baudry and F Papy

PART FOUR: Designing Crops and Cropping Systems for the Future

SECTION SIXTEEN: Cropping Systems for the Future, J Boiffin, E Malezieux and D Picard

SECTION SEVENTEEN: Will Yield Barriers Limit Future Rice Production? J E Sheehy

SECTION EIGHTEEN: New Crops for the Twenty-first Century, J Janick

SECTION NINETEEN: Plant Biotechnology - Methods, Goals, and Achievements, U Sonnewald and K Herbers

SECTION TWENTY: Transgenic Plants for Sustainable Crop Production, B Keller and E Hütter Carabias

PART FIVE: Position Papers

SECTION TWENTY ONE: Crop Science: Scientific and Ethical Challenges to Meet Human Needs, L O Fresco

SECTION TWENTY TWO: Declaration of Hamburg, J H J Spiertz (ed)