Aims and Scope of Field Crops Research 

Field Crops Research is an international journal publishing scientific articles on: 

√ experimental and modelling research at field, farm and landscape levels
on temperate and tropical crops and cropping systems,
with a focus on crop ecology and physiology, agronomy, and plant genetics and breeding.


√ Articles on plant genetics and breeding need to be integrated with crop ecology and physiology, and/or agronomy. 

√ An economic analysis may be included if appropriate. 

Papers must demonstrate new scientific insight, original technologies or novel methods that have general application and relevance to field crops. 
× Research findings of a purely corroborative nature, descriptive or of only local significance will not be considered. 

The journal's focus is major field crops for food and feed. This focus includes species used for cultivated pastures, but excludes natural grasslands. Other species, including important biofuel crops, could be considered if they contribute to the basic understanding of processes related to development, growth and yield of field crops. 

Field experiments on which manuscripts are based should, unless exceptional circumstances apply, include at least two seasons and/or multiple locations/environments. The inclusion of yield data is highly encouraged to demonstrate how the field experiments contribute to a better understanding of the bio-physical processes related to crop growth and yield. 

Papers on crop protection (diseases, pests, weeds) and soil processes/propertiescan be accepted provided they have a strong focus on crop processes, including consequences for yield. 

Experiments under controlled conditions (glasshouse, growth chamber) are only acceptable as complementary to field work. 

Papers on remote sensing will only be considered if their focus is the use of these techniques to understand crop processes and their links to crop yield. 

Reviews and Opinion Papers covering the various subject areas are solicited; 
√ authors should contact one of the Editors-in-Chief before submission of a review or an opinion paper in order to establish the journal's interest in the topic and nature of the paper 
√ Contributions dealing with emerging topics are especially welcomed 

Out-of-scope submissions: 
× Horticultural (i.e., vegetable and fruit species), woody perennial, medicinal and non-cultivated species are outside the scope of the journal. 
× Studies carried-out exclusively under controlled conditions are outside the scope of the journal. 
× Articles on crop storage, transportation and usage, and social studies on crops and cropping systems, are outside the scope of the journal.

Original full papers (Regular Papers)
Review articles
Opinion Papers
Short Communications
Book Reviews

Editors-in-Chief
C. van Kessel
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States Email C. van KesselAgroecology; Nutrient management; Cropping systems; Climate variability; Greenhouse gases
R. Savin
University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain Email R. Savin
H. Dong
Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China Email H. Dong Agronomy and physiology of major field crops under monoculture or multi cropping, with a focus on cotton under or without abotic stresses like salinity, drought, waterlogging and shading
Associate Editors
M. Corbeels
CIRAD Eastern and Southern Africa Crop/soil modelling, Soil fertility management, Smallholder cropping systems, Sub-Saharan Africa, Climate change adaptation
A.J. Hall
Institute for Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology, Ciudad De Buenos Aires, Argentina Crop physiology, Ecology or agronomy in any crop or forage species, Crop breeding
A. Henry
International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines Drought, Root, Abiotic stress, Physiology, Rice
K.-C. Kersebaum
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Muncheberg, Germany Modeling soil-crop-atmosphere interactions; Nitrogen dynamics in soils; Climate change impact assessment and adaptation; Model based evaluation of agricultural management
J.K. Ladha
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States Rice, conservation agriculture, Nitrogen
J. Palta
CSIRO Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Floreat, Australia Water (drought), nitrogen (NUE), Heat and climate change, Genotypes, environments and management practices, Physiology and genetics of processes, Crop yield and quality, Accumulation and utilization of C and N resources, Crop roots systems, Integrative effect of elevated CO2, High temperature and terminal drought.
R. A. Richards
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, AustraliaWheat, physiology, abiotic stress, yield potential, breeding, root biology
J. Rodenburg
University of Greenwich Natural Resources Institute, Chatham, United Kingdom Rice, Sorghum, Maize, weeds, Parastic weeds, Striga, Vatiety screening, African cropping systems/farming systems, Sub-Saharan Africa, Smallholder farmers, Agroecology, Sustainable intensification
D. Rodriguez, Ph.D
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Crop eco-physiology, Maize, Wheat, Sorghum, Pulses, Field agronomy, Climate variability, Climate change, farm, Profits and risks
R.P. Rötter
University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany Crop modelling, Abiotic stresses, Water and nitrogen dynamics, Assessing climate change impact, Adaptation and mitigation, Agronomy of maize, wheat, barley, Europe and Africa
V.O. Sadras
South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, Australia Water, Nitrogen, Crop physiology, plant density, Ecology
L. Tang, PhD
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Crop N management; high temperature effect on rice and wheat productivity; crop modelling and climate change
X. Yin
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Crop modelling, Photosynthesis, Genotype-environment interaction, Climate change impacts
Book Review Editor
J.W. White
USDA-ARS Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, Arizona, United StatesEmail J.W. White
Editorial Advisory Board
J.F. Angus
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia Crop and pasture sequences; Water and nitrogen dynamics of crops; Cropping systems; Simulation modelling
S. Asseng
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Cropping systems analysis; Crop productivity and sustainability; Atmosphere-crop-soil systems; Managing climate variability; Climate change impact and adaptation
R.W. Bell
Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia Soil Fertility; Land Management
L. Borrás
National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina Crop physiology; Yield components; Seed filling; Sgronomic practices; Abiotic stress
R. Buresh
Soil fertility; Nutrient management; Fertilizers; Soil N transformations; Nutrient cycling; Agronomy; Agroforestry; Crop residue management; ICT for agriculture; Long-term experiments; Sustainability of rice-based systems
D.F. Calderini
University of Southern Chile, Valdivia, Chile Crop physiology; Phenotyping; Physiological and molecular approaches on grain weight; Potential grain yield; Abiotic stress
Y. Chauhan
Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries J Bjelke-Petersen Research Facility, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia Expertise in Crop physiology; Modelling;Aflatoxin prediction models; Environmental characterisation; Crop improvement; Legumes; Maize
I. Ciampitti
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States Crop eco-physiology and agronomy, Crop modelling, Corn, soybean, sorghum and oilseeds, Rainfed and Irrigated farming systems, Remote sensing
B. Clerget
CIRAD Montpellier-Occitanie Research Centre, Montpellier, France Agronomy; Crop physiology; Traditional plant breeding; Rice, maize, sorghum and pearl millet; Rice production systems in the tropical, and sub-tropical regions of Asia
G.O. Edmeades
Crop Science and Agronomy, plant breeding, tropical maize, crop physiology
F. Ewert
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Climate change (impacts); Agroecosystems (ecophysiology); Resource use and management (land, water); Systems analysis and modelling; Agricultural sustainability assessment
G. Fitzgerald
Victoria Department of Jobs Precincts and Regions, Melbourne, Australia Remote sensing of abiotic and biotic crop stresses; Field level phenotyping; Climate change impacts to crops using FACE technologies, including water use and trait selection under elevated CO2.
J. Foulkes
University of Nottingham School of Biosciences, Loughborough, United Kingdom
T. Gaiser
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Modelling of crop-soil interface; Crop water uptake; Nutrient turnover and nutrient uptake; Soil carbon and nitrogen turnover; Tropical cereal and tuber crops; Soil salinity; Pollution of surface and ground waters from agricultural activities
L.F. Garcia del Moral
University of Granada, Granada, Spain Crop physiology; Abiotic stress; Plant growth analysis; Crop phenology; Ecophysiological and molecular approaches in plant breeding
D.S. Gaydon
CSIRO Queensland Bioscience Precinct Agriculture and Food Unit, St Lucia, AustraliaCropping systems modelling; APSIM; Rice; Rice-wheat systems; Conservation agriculture; Irrigation; Water productivity; Climate change adaptation
P. Grassini
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States Agronomy; Yield potential; Yield-gap analysis; Resource-use efficiency; Crop simulation models; Crop Ecophysiology
S.M. Haefele
The University of Adelaide, Balhannah, South Australia, Australia Agronomy; Black carbon; Phenotyping; Rice; Soil science; Wheat
J. Hunt
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
G. Inman-Bamber
CSIRO Townsville Australian Tropical Sciences and Innovation Precinct, Townsville, Australia Sugarcane physiology, agrometerology and water relations, controlled environment studies including CO2, crop model development
K. Jagadish
International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines Heat stress; combined heat and drought stress; rice reproductive physiology.
C. Johansen
Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia Plant nutrition, crop physiology, drought and salinity stress, agronomy, on-farm research, grain legumes
Y. Kato
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan Crop physiology and agronomy; Rice; Rainfed and irrigated rice production systems in the tropical, sub-tropical and temperate regions of Asia
H. Kirchmann
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden Turnover, decomposition and nutrient losses from organic manures in soil; Reactions of plant nutrients in soil (nitrogen and phoshorus); Changes in soil fertility in long-term field experiments; Recycling of plant nutrients from wastes; Effects of trace metals on yield and quality of crops; Methods to improve nutrient use efficiency.
M.R.C. Laza
International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines Crop Physiology and Agronomy; morpho-physiological bases of yield increase; source-sink relationship on yield formation; high night temperature effect on rice productivity, field phenomics for lodging resistance and yield component traits; SPAD-based N management; whole-plant physiological measurement
F-M. Li
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China Crop eco-physiological adaptation to arid environment, field crops management, ecosystem sustainable designing and the role of human being in restoring and conserving the structure and function of integrated ecosystem especially in the arid and semiarid regions in Northwest China and other similar regions in the world.
B. Linquist
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States Rice systems, nutrient and carbon cycling; nutrient management; productivity; greenhouse gas emissions; water quality; water use.
G. Maddonni
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Dry-land summer crop agronomy; Canopy structure of maize crops (sowing date, plant population density, row spacing, and genotype)
D. Miralles
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Crop physiology applied to management and breeding; wheat and barley.
J.P. Monzon
National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina Eco-physiology; Crop modelling; farming systems; Crop yield gap analysis
L. Nie
Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, China Rice; Seed germination biology; Direct seeding rice; Aerobic rice;Ratoon rice; Nutrient management; Water productivity; Rice-based cropping system
M. Otegui
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Crop physiology; Abiotic stress; Crop Modelling; Agronomy.
S. Peng
Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, China Yield potential; photosynthesis; nitrogen use efficiency; stress physiology; climate change; crop management; rice production.
H-P. Piepho
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Linear models; mixed models; spatial statistics; design of experiments.
G. Rebetzke
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia Plant breeding; quantitative genetics; statistics; physiology.
M. Robertson
CSIRO Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Floreat, Australia Agronomy; physiology; farming systems; cereals; grain legumes; canola.
D. Rubiales
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Cordoba, Spain plant breeding; disease resistance; genetic resources utilization; mechanisms of resistance; legumes; cereals; rust; parasitic weed; powdery mildew; ascochyta blight; fusarium wilt
Y. Singh
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India conservation agriculture, Crop productivity and sustainability, crop residue management, integrated nutrient management, nutrient use efficiency, rice, soil science, soil quality, wheat.
G.A. Slafer
University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain Wheat; Barley; Cereals; Crop-Physiology; Yield; Yield components; Water use efficiency; Nitrogen use efficiency; trait useful for breeding.
M. Tollenaar
The Climate Corporation, San Francisco, California, United States
V. Vadez
ICRISAT Crop Physiology Laboratory, Patancheru, India Drought, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, abiotic stresses, vapor pressure deficit, salinity, low soil fertility, modelling,
T.J. Vyn
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States Cropping systems; Conservation tillage; Maize hybrid/plant density/nitrogen interactions; Greenhouse gas emissions; Soil quality; Nutrient management; Crop rotation systems; Crop physiology; Pest management interactions with tillage systems; Maize; Soybean
L.J. Wade
Charles Sturt University E H Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Wagga Wagga, Australia Farming systems; GxE interactions; Root traits; Drought avoidance; Perennial grains
F. Walley
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Agronomy, soil microbiology (N2 fixation) and cropping systems, with an emphasis on nutrient cycling.
J. Wang
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Agrometeorology; Crop modelling; Climate change impact and adaptation; Crop yield gap analysis based on crop growth model; agro-meteorological disaster assessment
J.W. White
USDA-ARS Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, Arizona, United StatesCrop modeling and global change; tillage; conservation agriculture and zero Ttllage sites; carbon sequestration and agriculture; data management; phenomics.
J. Yang
Yangzhou University Agricultural College, Yangzhou, China Grain filling of cereals; water-saving irrigation; high-yielding production; abiotic stress.
X. Zhang
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Shijiazhuang, China Agro-meteorology; Crop-water relationship; Crop root growth and soil water use; Deficit irrigation scheduling; Cultivars characters related to drought resistance; Improving crop water use efficiency