Agricultural science

This book includes the impact, compression, vibration studies, and destructive and nondestructive techniques for bruise measurement.

This book discusses advances in postharvest and analytical technology for horticulture crops and challenges to meet future needs.

The volume focuses on novel and effective biological and biotechnological methods for managing major plant parasitic nematodes in economically important agricultural crops.

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture.

This book presents the definition of aeolian desertification and uncovers its processes, driving factors, and consequences, and focuses on measures to effectively combat aeolian desertification in Northeast Asia.

This book provides a detailed coverage of how the circular economy aims to change the paradigm in relation to the linear economy, by limiting the environmental impact and waste of resources, as well as increasing efficiency at all stages of the product economy.

This edited book covers all aspects of omics approaches used for the varietal improvement of millets in changing climatic conditions.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

Tropical root and tuber crops form an important group of food crops for millions of people (about one-fifth of the world population), especially those living in the tropical and sub-tropical zones.

Global farming is at a crucial juncture in its evolution.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the origins, occurrences, and remediation strategies for organic micropollutants in the environment.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the origins, occurrences, and remediation strategies for organic micropollutants in the environment.

Soil biota is an important and fundamental part of terrestrial ecology.

This book has combined information on the most recent agricultural practices and breeding methods for ornamental crops.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the growth of nanotechnology in the agri-food industry.

The world population is steadily increases with high rate in the past decade from 7,126 billion inhibitors in 2012 to 8,095 billion inhibitors in 2024, with 14% increase.

This book introduces the concept of a semi-closed ecosystem, which is necessary for the social implementation of plant production, such as agriculture, in harmony with the environment.

This book explores the interaction between climate change phenomena and the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC), which inspects the crucial role of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in modifying the net ecosystem response towards the modified environment.

This book provides an overview of biosurfactants as biobased compounds, and highlights novel applications in several industries, including biotech, food processing, cosmetic, oil recovery/petroleum, pharmaceutical, detergent and textile.

This book focuses on the integration of IoT and AI techniques to generate greater data-driven solutions for the agriculture industry.

This book covers different physiological processes, tools, and their application in crop breeding.

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with respect to remediation.

This book of cases, mostly of small to medium organizations, from west Africa, Thailand and India offers cases suitable for training of practicing managers of small and medium agricultural enterprises and public sector professionals engaged in agricultural development.

This book explores the interaction between climate change phenomena and the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC), which inspects the crucial role of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in modifying the net ecosystem response towards the modified environment.

This book opens up horizons for designing innovative supply chains of citrus by-products, taking into consideration the current socio-economic situation of the actors, citrus production and distribution infrastructure, consumer preferences, and digitization progress at farmer and production levels.

The medicinal and aromatic plants have immensely benefited humankind since ancient times for therapeutic, cosmetic, and nutritional properties.

This book provides an overview of the current status of land degradation globally and the different approaches used for its restoration.

This book highlights various issues related to biodiversity conservation and land degradation, and the global challenges faced in achieving land degradation neutrality.

This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of agricultural development in independent India.

Processes in soils, with special focus on plant-soil interaction, are hot economic and social topics driven by climate change and its impact on human nutrition.