Agricultural science

This book is the third volume on Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture, published in the Sustainable Agriculture Reviews series.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems.

This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics.

This book describes the vast variety of xenobiotics, such as pesticides, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, agrochemicals and other pollutants, their interactions with the soil environment, and the currently available strategies and techniques for soil decontamination and bioremediation.

 This work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt.

This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the concepts, modeling, technical and technological details and practical applications of different types of sensors, and discusses the trends of next generation of sensors and systems for environmental and food engineering.

This book provides in-depth reviews of the effects of nanoparticles on the soil environment, their interactions with plants and also their potential applications as nanofertilizers and pesticides.

This book captures the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Transformation in the Context of Global Change (GREEN 2024), organized by the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This textbook explains the various aspects of sustainable agricultures to undergraduate and graduate students.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America.

This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach.

This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil, air and water.

This book focuses on the microbial degradation of endosulfan, lindane, chlorophenols, organochlorine, aldrin, dieldrin, isoproturon and atrazine, etc.

The book combines food security and agricultural competitiveness issues and treat them together.

This book presents a flavour of activities focussed on the need for sustainably produced biomass to support European strategic objectives for the developing bioeconomy.

This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux.

This volume of comprehensive reviews updates our knowledge of research and commercialization of Bacillus-based products in agriculture and the environmental sector.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R.

This unique book contains not only a comprehensive up-to-date summary of the achievements made in all areas of Nematology in South Africa over more than half a century, but it also combines this rather technical part with an insiders narrative of how Nematology started and developed.

This book describes how the genome sequence contributes to our understanding of allopolyploidisation and the genome evolution, genetic diversity, complex trait regulation and knowledge-based breeding of this important crop.

This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification.

This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may contribute in our understanding of mechanisms involved in stress adaptation.

This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may enhance agricultural productivity.

This volume looks at the impact that different cropping systems and tillage have on soil's biologically active substances.

This book addresses issues arising from discharge of effluents from sugar industry on to surrounding land or into a water body such as physicochemical properties of soil, changes in the micro flora, quantification of soil enzyme activities as influenced by effluents.

This work analyzes the effects of one of the most dramatic changes of entire societies that the world has ever witnessed.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This book summarizes our current knowledge on belowground defence strategies in plants by world-class scientists actively working in the area.

This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology in plant sciences, particularly its potential to improve food and agricultural systems, through innovative, eco-friendly approaches, and as a result to increase plant productivity.

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation,"e; which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue.

This 35-chapter book is based on several oral and poster presentations including both invited and contributory chapters.

This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science.

This book details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

Chapters outline up-to-date strategies regarding breeding, chemical and biological control, cultural and environmental manipulation, diagnosis, nutrition, and sanitation and how these approaches directly influence ornamental plant health.

This book is the second volume on this topic within the series.

Nanotechnology is a fast-evolving discipline that already produces outstanding basic knowledge and industrial applications for the benefit of society.

This book advances a three-step program for mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards, addressing mitigation economics and funding possibilities to meet the needs of at risk countries that lack the financial resources to invest in disaster reduction programs.

Soil is the most important natural non-renewable resource developed over a longer period of time due to weathering of rocks and subsequently enrichment of organic matter.

Blast is an important foliar disease that infects the majority of cereal crops like rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet and wheat, and thus resulting in a huge economic impact.

Selenium plays a significant role in preventing certain types of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

This book discusses basic andapplied aspects of somatic embryogenesis, one of the most powerful tools inplant biotechnology.

The book contains suggestion on suitable crop rotations for salt-affected soils to maximize the productivity of lands and water under current climate and under climate change in 2030.

This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices.

This termite Volume 2 comprises 13 chapters in an attempt to bring all available information on sustainable and eco-friendly termite management.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the wheat production developments in the Eurasian region and assesses the potential contribution of the region to domestic and international food security.

This introductory volume to a new series on Soil Forensics gives a kaleidoscopic view of a developing forensic expertise.