Crop Physiology

Dr. Ignacio A. Ciampitti is a Full Professor in the Department of Agronomy at the College of Agriculture, Purdue University. His research program explores the integration of crop eco-physiology and plant nutrition with data science, remote sensing, and crop modelling for understanding plant responses within complex agricultural farming systems. He leads efforts in digital agriculture at both national and international scales, co-leading the Institute for Digital and Advanced Agricultural Systems (IDAAS) at Purdue University. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the European Journal of Agronomy, Crop Science, Remote Sensing, Field Crops Research, and Nature Scientific Data. Dr. Daniela V. Bustos-Korts studied Agricultural Sciences and later earned a Master of Science in Crop Physiology at Universidad Austral de Chile. She completed her PhD in Statistical Genetics at Biometris, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, where she continued working as a post doctoral researcher on projects related to genetic diversity in wheat and barley, as well as the prediction of genotype-by-environment interactions through the integration of statistical models and crop growth models. Subsequently, she served as an assistant professor at Wageningen University, teaching MSc and PhD courses focused on the application of statistics in plant breeding. Currently, Daniela works at Universidad Austral de Chile, where she leads projects that integrate genomic, phenomic, and environmental data to predict wheat adaptation to drought. She is also a member of the editorial board of Theoretical and Applied Genetics and serves as a guest editor for In Silico Plants.Dr. Daniel F. Calderini has been a Full Professor at the Plant Production and Plant Protection Institute of Universidad Austral de Chile since 2002. He specializes in the physiology of crops and cereals. Dr. Calderini was honored with the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award. He is the coordinator of the ‘Sustainable Intensification of Extensive Crop Production’ network within the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development. Additionally, he has served as the head of the Graduate School and the Doctorate Program at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. His physiological research has focused on pea, lupin, rapeseed, sunflower, quinoa, and temperate cereals. Dr. Victor O. Sadras is a crop ecophysiologist with expertise in the adaptation of crops to environmental stresses, including water deficit, extreme temperatures, nutrient deficiency, soil physical and chemical constraints, pathogens, and insects. He has studied and modeled aspects of the water, carbon, and nitrogen economies of annual crops (wheat, field pea, chickpea, sunflower, maize, soybean, cotton) and perennial crops (grapevine and olive) in rain-fed and irrigated systems.

• Section 1: Regional cropping systems1. Rice-based cropping systems in Southeast Asia2. Cropping systems in Spain: A paradigm of Mediterranean agriculture3. Farming systems in Brazil: Evolution, limitations and opportunitiesSection 2: Crop development, growth, yield and stress adaptation4. Development of wheat and barley: Advances and applications of crop development scales5. Reappraisal of nitrogen dynamics and crop responses for an effective use of nitrogen by major field crops6. Nitrogen fixation in legumes and cereals7. Root traits for improving phosphorus acquisition efficiency8. Advances in high-throughput functional root phenotyping in the field: Implications for breeding and agronomy9. Waterlogging stress on cereal, legume and oilseed crops10. Low temperature stress in annual and perennial crops11. Heat stress in annual field crops12. The phenotype of plants in crop stands: Implications of plant-plant relations for breeding and agronomy13. Complexity of cropping systems