Agricultural science

This book assesses the effectiveness of changes in watershed interventions in one of the most fragile resource regions of India.

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

Advanced materials and nanotechnology is a promising, emerging field involving the use of nanoparticles to facilitate the detection of various physical and chemical parameters, including temperature, humidity, pH, metal ion, anion, small organic or inorganic molecules, gases, and biomolecules responsible for environmental issues that can lead to diseases like cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis, bacterial infections, and brain, retinal, and cardiovascular diseases.

Numerous solvents used in chemical processes have poisonous and unsafe properties that pose significant ecological concerns ranging from atmospheric emissions to the contamination of water effluents.

Globalization and industrialization involve a number of reactions, products, extractions, and separations that require the use of organic solvents.

This volume is aimed at offering an insight into the present knowledge of the vast domain of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with a focus on North America.

This book discusses the biological, technical and study-design challenges of Nanopharmaceuticals.

This book presents the comprehensive description of basic principles, methodologies, similarities and differences of nano-liposomes and -phytosomes.

This book explores the development of nanopesticides and tests of their biological activity against target organisms.

About 15 years ago, we asked ourselves why the methods developed by the research institutions for the management of pests were almost not used by small landholder farmers.

Weed management Decision Support Systems (DSS) are increasingly important computer-based tools for modern agriculture.

This book provides a straightforward and easy-to-understand overview of beneficial plant-bacterial interactions.

This book gathers the latest insights into soil health and its sustainability, providing an up-to-date overview of the various aspects of soil quality and fertility management, e.

Traditional methods in synthetic chemistry produce chemical waste and byproducts, yield smaller desired products, and generate toxic chemical substances, but the past two centuries have seen consistent, greener improvements in organic synthesis and transformations.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the soils of Sri Lanka.

This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well as trading systems with regard to land take.

This book gathers contributions on modern irrigation environments in Egypt from an environmental and agricultural perspective.

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution.

This book gathers contributions discussing climate change in Egypt from an agricultural perspective.

This comprehensive volume covers recent studies into agricultural problems caused by soil and water contamination.

This book reviews recent research and applications, developments, research trends, methods and issues related to the applications of industrial hemp for fundamental research and technology.

World health authorities recommend people maximize their protein intake through vegetable sources (such as pulses), and reduce protein intake from animal sources.

In this age of population explosion and depleting natural resources, this book offers new techniques to produce more from agricultural crops at a lower cost.

Urbanization, industrialization, and unethical agricultural practices have considerably negative effects on the environment, flora, fauna, and the health and safety of humanity.

This book presents the first comprehensive compilation of genome research on the Hevea brasiliensis rubber tree.

This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of papers on CRISPR/Cas genome editing in connection with agriculture, climate-smart crops, food security, translational research applications, bioinformatics analysis, practical applications in cereals, floriculture crops, engineering plants for abiotic stress resistance, the intellectual landscape, regulatory framework, and policy decisions.

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commerical export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality.

This volume aims to present the essential work of geographer and historical ecologist William M.

This book provides up-to-date information on biochar use in management of soil health, agriculture productivity, green-house gases, restoration ecology and environment.

Unarguably, preserving the ecosystem, securing sustainability and understanding the dynamics of agro-food chains have all become vital policy objectives with several interlinked dimensions.

This book presents the technological developments that are currently being researched or implemented in the management of palm oil industrial waste.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

This book addresses the grave concerns stemming out due to conventional treatment techniques.

This book presents various aspects of salt and drought stress signaling in crops, combining physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 30th Scientific-Experts Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, held on September 26-27, 2019, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Agriculture is considered as a backbone of developing nations as it caters the needs of the people, directly or indirectly.

Allelopathic studies may be defined in various aspects; weed against weed/crop and vice versa.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of innovative biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production.

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model.

The world's population is expected to reach the eight billion mark very soon.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

Agriculture and industry are the two most important economic sectors for various countries around the globe, providing millions of jobs as well as being the main source of income for these countries.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

The agricultural sector of medicinal (including plant stimulants) and aromatic plants is characterized by an enormous number and diversity of species.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

This book discusses knowledge-based sustainable agro-ecological and natural resource management systems and best practices for sustained agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience for better livelihoods under a changing climate.

This book contributes to a deeper understanding of landscape and regional modelling in general, and its broad range of facets with respect to various landscape parameters.

This book provides the technological insight on biorefinery and nanoremediation and provides comprehensive reviews on applications of Biochar for environmental sustainability.