Agricultural science

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops.

Climbing food, fertiliser and mineral prices as well as the Arab oil embargo in the seventies had severe economic consequences in developing countries.

An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year.

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

The Handbook identifies all aspects of Regulatory Plant Biosecurity and discusses them from the standpoint of preventing the international movement of plant pests, diseases and weeds that negatively impact production agriculture, natural plant-resources and agricultural commerce.

Biotic stresses cause yield loss of 31-42% in crops in addition to 6-20% during post-harvest stage.

First published in 1995, The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues.

This book provides a broad-based foundation of knowledge about brown rice, including the latest information on health benefits and disease prevention resulting from consumption of brown rice, and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards brown rice.

This book contains papers presented at the International Workshop on Tropical Wetlands, held in Banjarmasin, Indonesia.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of phytopathogenic viruses and viroids within the context of agroecology.

Fisheries in India and elsewhere are a very important economic activity with total fish production growing each year in response to increasing demand from consumers.

The main subject of this book is the interaction between diggings created by porcupines when consuming geophytes, and their influences on annual and perennial vegetation in a desert biome.

What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929?

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural-systems agriculture.

Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Environmental Materials and their Industrial Utilization provides a description of the properties of materials formed on the earth's surface, their synthetic analogs where applicable, and the products of their modifications in the course of natural processes, such as weathering, or in industrial processing as reflected in their Mossbauer spectra.

This important volume provides new research on the design and application of ecologically safe formulations for protecting cultivated crops against pathogen-causing diseases and weeds-that also provide nitrogen fertilizers at the same time.

In recent years, pollination has become a very important research trend, and wild bees in particular play a key role in the dynamics of plant pollination.

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades.

This book is a comprehensive elucidation on aspects of reproduction and development in platyhelminthes covering from acoelids to taeniids.

The use of nanotechnology in agriculture has created many concerns related to toxicity and environmental implications.

The need for exploration, conservation, and sustainable utilization of bioresources is undeniable for the survival and growth of mankind.

This book provides simultaneously, a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of climate change issues in Morocco and proposes levers of action and innovative practices to be used to strengthen the resilience and adaptation strategies.

Bioenergy Crops: A Sustainable Means of Phytoremediation comprises a unique combination of topics related to the field of phytoremediation and bioenergy production.

Inequity of control over food systems is a particularly insidious form of injustice.

This fourth volume in the new multi-volume set Global Biodiversity is a rich resource on the biodiversity of a selection of countries in the Americas and in Australia.

This book offers an introduction to the soils of Aotearoa New Zealand, structured according to the New Zealand soil classification system.

This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge.

The world of development thinkers and practitioners is abuzz with a new lexicon: the idea of "e;the nexus"e; between water, food, and energy which is intuitively compelling.

This authored volume highlights the concern for food security of Asian nations traditionally focused on rice.

Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears, wolves and big cats.

Focusing on the complex and often contradictory relationships between agricultural production and markets, Labor, Markets, and Agricultural Production examines the micro-macro linkages between farm production, farm labor issues, and the degree of autonomy or dependency vis-A -vis markets.

Fluorescence of Living Plant Cells for Phytomedicine Preparations reveals how valuable medicinal compounds can be identified through the application of vital fluorescence in plant cells.

Book contains 18 chapters on soil.

This book serves as a foundational reference of U.

Taking a sustainable approach, this volume explores the various soil management techniques.

With the current world population growth of 1.

The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stake-holders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems.

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods.

This book addresses basic and applied aspects of two nexus points of microorganisms in agro-ecosystems, namely their functional role as bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

The discovery and development of antibiotics has been one of the most significant advances in medicine.

This book presents focussed information related to dynamic cropland transformation, agriculture development, climate change, and environment with the application of advance geospatial technology.

The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium.

The chapters in this book represent detailed versions of papers presented at the Symposium on Viral Genes and Plant Pathogenesis held at Lexington, Kentucky on October 16 and 17, 1989.

Following in the tradition of its predecessor, Crop Responses to Environment, this fully updated and more comprehensive second edition describes aspects of crop responses to environment that are particularly relevant to the development of improved crop cultivars and management methods on a global scale.

The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

"e;I really don't think this book will ever be surpassed as the 'go-to' clinical ruminant reference for undergraduates, recent grads and vets in mixed practice who do not spend the majority of their time with farm animals.

Agricultural biocatalysis is of immense scientific interest nowadays owing to its increasing importance in the efforts for more sustainable agriculture while optimizing environmental impacts.

Natural ecosystems provide the basic conditions without which humanity could not survive.