growth and development, environmental influences and pests/diseases /
editor: Juan Ignacio Arribas (Electrical Engineering Department, Univ. Valladolid, Spain)
pages cm
Botanical research and practices
Includes index
An introduction to the sunflower crop / Fabián Fernández-Luqueño [and five others] -- Floral biology of sunflowers: a histological and physiological analysis / Basudha Sharma, Rashmi Shakya and Satish C. Bhatla -- Development of female reproductive structures and apomixis in sunflowers / Olga N. Voronova -- Genetics and genomics applied to sunflower breeding / Carla Filippi [and five others] -- Sunflower genetic resources: interspecific hybridization and cytogenetics in prebreeding / Jovanka Atlagic and Sreten Terzic -- Functional genomics and transgenesis applied to sunflower breeding / Sebastian Moschen [and eight others] -- Disease management in sunflowers / Regina M.V.B.C. Leite -- Recent advances for developing resistance against Plasmopara halstedii in sunflowers / Osman Radwan -- Effects of crop management on the incidence and severity of fungal diseases in sunflowers / P. Debaeke [and three others] -- Insect pests of sunflowers in Africa / Hannalene du Plessis -- Soil amendments and their effects on sunflower growth / Fernando López-Valdez [and four others] -- Nutrition and fertilization of sunflower in Brazilian cerrado / C. de Castro [and three others] -- Environmental issues in the sunflower crop of midwestern Brazil: diversification and complementarities in the biodiesel chain / N.P. Ramos [and five others] -- Micro and macro-morphological variation of Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos bipinnatus var. Albiflorus in sympatric zones in central Mexico / M. Paniagua-Ibanez [and four others]