Agricultural science

This book explores the impact of industry 4.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

This book aims to provide the reader with an understanding of the concept of the circular economy, in relation to food supply chains.

The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine.

This book brings together segmental knowledge and creates new insights on the sustainability of agricultural systems, critically analyzing not only individual system components, but also focusing on interactions between them and external environments.

Agricultural systems are uniquely complex systems, given that agricultural systems are parts of natural and ecological systems.

This textbook aims to describe the role of minerals in plant life cycle; how these nutrients are absorbed, distributed, stored; what functions each mineral plays and the disorders that their excess or absence may cause.

This book highlights the latest discoveries about the nitrogen cycle in the soil.

This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960.

Selenium plays a significant role in preventing certain types of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Over the past century, mechanization has been an important means for optimizing resource utilization, improving worker health and safety and reducing labor requirements in farming while increasing productivity and quality of 4F (Food, Fuel, Fiber, Feed).

This book will fill a void in the literature around research and program design and the impact of such experiences on learning outcomes within urban agricultural contexts.

This book aims to describe, though in a quite light way, the social role of plant diseases, letting the reader know the topical importance of plant pathology, as well as the role of plant pathologists in our society.

This book profiles various cases that are emerging in addressing global challenges in the context of SDGs for society in the era of climate change and covers case studies of projects being undertaken to tackle biodiversity, food security, climate change, energy and water security.

Soil and crop sensing is a fundamental component and the first important step in precision agriculture.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India.

Why do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers?

This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation and land productivity to determine linkages with deforestation, climate change and agricultural productivity.

In the context of climate change, pollution and food safety, the current challenge is to enhance legumes production to sustain the growing population needs by 2050.

Fungi range from being microscopic, single-celled yeasts to multicellular and heterotrophic in nature.

This comprehensive textbook provides detailed information on calving management in dairy and beef cattle.

This book provides an overview of the current development status of remediation technologies involving electrochemical processes, which are used to clean up soils that are contaminated with different types of contaminants (organics, inorganics, metalloids and radioactive).

Invasive species have inspired concern for many reasons, including economic and environmental impacts in specific jurisdictions within particular countries.

Why do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers?

Written in easy to follow language, the book presents cutting-edge agriculturally relevant plant biotechnologies and applications in a manner that is accessible to all.

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine.

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies.

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption.

The book informs about agricultural landscapes, their features, functions and regulatory mechanisms.

The search for new strategies of pest control with safer molecules is currently of great importance and interest.

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals.

Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing human population.

In the recent past, threats from climate change and unforeseeable environmental extremes to plant growth and productivity have consistently increased.

This book addresses the paradox between preponderance of hunger in a continent that is well endowed with fertile agricultural land, plenty of fresh water and a vibrant labor force.

Internet of things (IoT) is a new type of network that combines communication technology, expanded applications, and physical devices.

Abiotic and biotic stress factors, including drought, salinity, waterlog, temperature extremes, mineral nutrients, heavy metals, plant diseases, nematodes, viruses, and diseases, adversely affect growth as well as yield of crop plants worldwide.

This work reviews and explores various aspects of uchuva growth and development from seed germination, vegetative growth and phyllotaxy, floral development, pollination, and pollen morphology through fruit development, properties and health benefits.

This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influences on human health, handling and management of biomedical waste.

This atlas presents a concrete tool to identify xylophagous activity by the remains they left in wooded areas in Western Europe.

This volume collects and presents the fundamentals, tools, and processes of utilizing geospatial information technologies to process remotely sensed data for use in agricultural monitoring and management.

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya.

This book surveys state-of-the-art and prospective practices, methods and technologies in agri-food and forestry sectors to document the potential measurable improvements in areas of environmental management, food security, economic growth, social cohesion and human health at the local and global scale.

This book reviews the application of nanosensors in food and agriculture.

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.

This book provides information on genome complexity and evolution, transcriptome analysis, miRNome, simple sequence repeats, genome relationships, molecular cytogenetics, polyploidy induction and application, flower and embryo development.

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals.

The challenges to meet the food requirement of the burgeoning population and stabilized productivity of agriculture lands can only be met by a second green revolution.

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population.

Shared diseases among wildlife, livestock and humans, often transboundary, are relevant to public health and global economy, as being highlighted currently relative to the global COVID19 pandemic.

This book focuses on quinoa, providing background information on its history, summarizing recent genetic and genomic advances, and offering directions for future research.