Ecophysiology Of Fruit Crops: A Glance At Its Impact On Fruit Crop Productivity

Fruit crops are currently facing new problems due to the different global climate change scenarios, which have led to the establishment of new guidelines. The ecophysiology of crops is a discipline that studies the interaction between crops and their physical, chemical, and biological environment and helps to the productivity of an orchard. The objective of this chapter is to analyze how the effect of some environmental factors (solar radiation, temperature, water availability, and wind) affects the physiological and agronomic behavior of fruit crops. In addition, the ecophysiological studies of fruit crops should be emphasized to generate new knowledge about mechanisms of plant stress tolerance (genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology) and plant phenotyping, canopy level responses to environmental stresses and mathematical models to predict fruit trees responses to new environmental conditions in order to keep commercial agriculture profitable and guarantee humankind's supply of goods and services.