**Meet the editor**

Dr. G.K.S. Aflakpui holds a Ph.D from the University of Reading, United Kingdom, MSc from the University of Guelph, Canada and B.Sc from the University of Ghana. His specialty is Crop and Plant Physiology, Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, and Agronomy. His expertise includes participatory research, natural resource management, nutrient uptake and partitioning in crop-weed

interactions using stable isotopes, physiological bases for crop-weed interactions, integrated nutrient management, adaptation to climate change, technology transfer, and science communication. He worked for 26 years in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana moving from an Assistant Research Scientist to a Chief Research Scientist. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Agricultural and Food Science Journal of Ghana (ISSN 0855 - 5591) from 1998 to 2010. Dr. Aflakpui is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and the African Scientific Institute. He is currently the Rector of Wa Polytechnic, Wa, Ghana.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Crop Improvement 1** 

Chapter 1 **Impact of Epistasis in** 

**Section 2 Crop Production 23** 

Chapter 3 **Concepts in Crop Rotations 25**  H. Arnold Bruns

Marin Ambroise

Chapter 5 **Spatial Patterns of Water and** 

Margarita Nankova

Jerry L. Hatfield

Chapter 2 **Genetic Diversity Analysis of** 

**Inheritance of Quantitative Traits in Crops 3** 

*Heliconia psittacorum* **Cultivars and Interspecific** 

Luiza Suely Semen Martins, Luciane Vilela Resende,

**Image Processing for Crop Characterization in a** 

Cointault Frédéric, Journaux Ludovic, Rabatel Gilles, Germain Christian, Ooms David, Destain Marie-France, Gorretta Nathalie, Grenier Gilbert, Lavialle Olivier and

**Nitrogen Response Within Corn Production Fields 73** 

Chapter 6 **Long-Term Mineral Fertilization and Soil Fertility 97** 

**Hybrids Using Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA Regions 11** 

Bnejdi Fethi and El Gazzeh Mohamed

Walma Nogueira Ramos Guimarães, Gabriela de Morais Guerra Ferraz,

Helio Almeida Burity and Vivian Loges

Chapter 4 **Texture, Color and Frequential Proxy-Detection** 

**Context of Precision Agriculture 49** 

**Section 3 Crop Response to Water and Nutrients 71** 
