Agricultural science

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process.

This new book focuses on the challenges of implementing sustainability in different contexts of biodiversity and ecosystems for shaping the future of engineering in the agro-food processing industry and addresses sustainable applications of renewable and nonrenewable resources.

From Anatomy to Wildlifeeverything you need to know about temperate-zone tree fruit culture and physiology!

Papers presented at the Third International Conference on Land Reclamation: An End to Dereliction?

This book explores how metals like cadmium, mercury, lead, aluminium, manganese, and chromium can harm our health, whether through short-term or long-term exposure.

Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures, more commonly referred to as BELLE, began as a conference in May 1990.

Chemistry for Environmental and Earth Sciences focuses on the chemistry and processes behind environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, water pollution, and soil contamination.

Produce more abundant, high-quality crops with the information you'll find in this book!

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

Poultry Products Processing: An Industry Guide covers all major aspects of the modern poultry further processing industry.

Worldwide energy and food crises are spotlighting the importance of bio-based products - an area many are calling on for solutions to these shortages.

Get cutting-edge agroforestry research and dataDeforestation and the rampant use of fossil fuels are major contributors to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and are enormous influences on global warming.

South Africa boasts high biodiversity among its flora and this is associated with many undiscovered medicinal plants with therapeutic potential.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable and smart agriculture, as presented by leading  researchers at the XII Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture (FMPMSA), held in Lublin, Poland, on June 12-14, 2024.

This book analyses the complexities of the rhizosphere ecosystem and discusses the role of insect pheromones in shaping soil health and vermicompost production.

This book explores Veganism through the holistic journeys and lived experiences of former vegans, with a particular focus on the impact this has on their Selfhood and identity.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable and smart agriculture, as presented by leading  researchers at the XII Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture (FMPMSA), held in Lublin, Poland, on June 12-14, 2024.

Zero Hunger (SDG-2) and Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG-12) of the United Nations are very crucial aspects for any economy in the world.

South Africa boasts high biodiversity among its flora and this is associated with many undiscovered medicinal plants with therapeutic potential.

Revised and expanded throughout, this latest edition of the bestselling Seeds Handbook: Biology, Production, Processing, and Storage includes valuable information on all areas of seed biology, production, and processing.

This volume comprehensively covers soil microbial processes that regulate the flux of greenhouse gasses (GHG) from agricultural soils, in an effort to address how GHG regulating microbes can be used to mitigate harmful climate change impacts on agriculture.

This volume comprehensively covers soil microbial processes that regulate the flux of greenhouse gasses (GHG) from agricultural soils, in an effort to address how GHG regulating microbes can be used to mitigate harmful climate change impacts on agriculture.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of green nanotechnology covering principles, applications, and ethical considerations.

Forests are one of our most valuable resources, yet they are fast depleting with an impending ecological crisis in view.

This publication is rare among those texts on pesticides in that it covers herbicides exclusively.

A thorough, critical, and up-to-date look at precision farming around the worldIn most developing countries, farming is the best safety net against hunger and keeping production costs under control without sacrificing crop yield is essential for survival.

This publication is rare among those texts on pesticides in that it covers herbicides exclusively.

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops.

This book provides a comprehensive review at the biochemical and molecular level of the processes and techniques that contribute to crop improvement.

The lives of more than a billion people depend on the answer!

Learn to integrate molecular genetic techniques with traditional plant breeding methods!

Volume III of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on agriculture; food security; vegetation; phenology; rangelands; soils; and global biomass modeling, mapping, and monitoring using multi-sensor remote sensing.

This volume aims to be a comprehensive guide to the field of rice molecular biology, encompassing both time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art methodologies.

This volume aims to be a comprehensive guide to the field of rice molecular biology, encompassing both time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art methodologies.

Crop protection is becoming increasingly important due to the need for food security and to meet growing environmental challenges.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective.

This new volume explores the revolution in the use of smart technologies in agricultural science in recent years.

This single volume explores the theoretical and the practical aspects of crop physiological processes around the world The marked decrease over the past century in the land available for crop production has brought about mounting pressure to increase crop yields, especially in developing nations.

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.

Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the most destructive agricultural pests in the world, eating their way through acres and acres of citrus and other fruits at an alarming rate and forcing food and agriculture agencies to spend millions of dollars in control and management measures.

This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.

Industries are developing radical, new biotechnology processes to expand and develop their range of products that originate from the world's forests.

Historically, research on the methods and amounts of trace element application to agriculture soils for correcting plant deficiencies has received major attention.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

Plant Stress Tolerance: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies, Volume One provides effective ways for organizing precision and sustainable agriculture.

Plankton populations have lived in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years, performing essential functions within marine ecosystems.

Perception in animals is a fascinating and challenging subject that calls to students from many disciplines.