Agricultural science

This book introduces state-of-the-art approaches, methods and research, focusing on smart management of rainwater.

This textbook takes a truly international approach towards agricultural economics, uniting many different perspectives on the subject and providing insight into agriculture in general, and into how practical farming works in particular.

This new volume highlights the latest strides made in the fields of agricultural biotechnology, encompassing topics from molecular biology, genetic engineering, proteomics, molecular docking, and drug delivery.

Mobilizing Food Vending investigates the gourmet food truck movement in the United States and provides a clearer understanding of the social and economic factors that shape vendor autonomy and industry growth.

Soils are porous and open bodies, yet they retain water.

Chemicals inhibiting the biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids form a new and promising class of herbicides.

In light of the novel corona virus outbreak in December 2019 and its subsequent impact on entire world as a global pandemic, the book attempts to provide integrated risk assessment on Covid -19 like pandemics, as well as to understand the societal, environment and economic impact of the outbreak in various sectors of development.

Delve into the fascinating world of soil science with "e;The Urban Soil Guide,"e; a comprehensive manual designed for everyone from science beginners to seasoned horticulturists.

This book covers aspects of biological nitrogen fixation along with the unique signaling and interaction between the diazotrophic bacteria and plants, especially the non-legumes.

This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes.

This book deliberates on the concept, strategies, tools, and techniques of allele mining in fruit crops and its application potential in genome elucidation and improvement including studying allele evolution, discovery of superior alleles, discerning new haplotypes, assessment of intra- and interspecific similarity, and also studies of gene expression and gene prediction.

Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on Roles of Government and Market scrutinizes the main features of the Taiwanese development experience under five interrelated themes and domains: Outward-orientation vs.

Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives.

This book provides insights into the latest achievements in genomics research on Brassica rapa.

Das Buch behandelt Möglichkeiten einer zukünftigen Energieversorgung am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food sector.

In the 100 years since the legume-Rhizobium symbiotic nitrogen fixation interaction was first described, interest in this field has grown rapidly.

Aquaculture, the youngest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic protein-producing industry, has the key advantage of efficient use of feed that allows farmed fish to be competitively priced compared with terrestrial proteins.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security.

This book addresses the threats that hamper the achievement of sustainable soil management: soil erosion by water and wind, soil organic carbon loss, nutrient imbalance, salinization, contamination, acidification, loss of soil biodiversity, surface sealing, compaction and water logging.

Millets are small-grained, annual, warm weather cereal.

Band 1 dieses zweibändigen Lehrbuches gibt dem Lernenden aufbauend auf den Grundlagen einen Einstieg in die verfahrenstechnische Behandlung der vielfältigen Probleme mit dispersen Stoffen.

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective.

This volume provides an abundance of valuable information on emerging eco-friendly technology and its potential role in combating climate change via agroforesty.

This book examines the risks involved in agriculture from the farmer's perspective.

Food security is defined as the ability of countries, regions, or households to meet their required levels of food consumption at all times.

Genetic Engineering of Horticultural Crops provides key insights into commercialized crops, their improved productivity, disease and pest resistance, and enhanced nutritional or medicinal benefits.

The book deals with the present state and problems of integrated pest management as relating to stakeholder acceptance of IPM and how integrated pest management can become a sustainable practice.

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

Biomethane through resource circularity: Research, Technology and Practices is an invaluable resource for researchers, policy makers, implementers and PhD and Marsters level students in universities analyzing the present status, waste biomass including agro wastes, success in experimentation & commercial production, future needs and other relevant areas.

This book comprehensively introduces all aspects of the physiology, stress responses and tolerance to abiotic stresses of the Fabaceae plants.

Climate change and increased climate variability in terms of rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and increasing extreme weather events, such as severe drought and devastating floods, pose a threat to the production of agricultural and horticultural crops-a threat this is expected to worsen.

Due to the diverse properties of Ricinus communis (castor), this book provides a comprehensive account of castor as a 'climate resilient and value-added crop.

This is the 5th edition of a well-established book Principles of Plant Nutrition which was first published in 1978.

This book includes selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2024), held in Minsk, Belarus during June 05-08, 2024.

This book describes practices used on farms and in farmers markets selling foods directly to consumers in U.

Soil science is an extensive science encompassing various related disciplines in Agriculture.

This edited volume explores the integration of artificial intelligence to improve crop production.

Indian spices are famous across the globe and have attracted food lovers for ages.

Recent advances in agri-food technology have brought increasing complexity and emerging challenges to food safety regulation and governance, with many countries greatly divided in their regulatory approaches.

The book provides currently available information on the changing climate and its impact on functional and adaptive features of plants.

Agriculture is the oldest and most traditional of economic sectors, and its business has seen major leaps in innovation over the past century.

In this book, leading researchers from this field systematically explain the latest research results on anaerobic responses in plants.

This book highlights recent advances in the discipline of biogeochemistry that have directly resulted from the development of critical zone (CZ) science.

This book covers the entire Nile Basin and reflects the latest findings.

This book details the preparation of USAGE-TERM, a computable general equilibrium model that provides regional economic detail in the USA.