Agricultural science

In recent years, nanotechnology has emerged as a promising tool for combating insect pests in agriculture, public health, and urban environments.

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities.

Selenium is a naturally occurring trace element that can become concentrated and released by industrial, agricultural, petrochemical and mining activities.

The book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding and includes in-depth discussions on salinity resilience, sustainable production under climate change, how do plants resilience saline conditions?

This book offers an itemized analysis of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), for use in any processes, products, services, industries, organizations and so forth.

This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century.

Seed conditioning is the final process that establishes the quality of a seed lot and determines its value.

First Published in 1988, this set offers a comprehensive insight into controlling diseases in plants.

International institutions and agencies from the Global North are no longer the sole initiators of development norms and best practices.

This book is the first comprehensive assemblage of contemporary knowledge relevant to genomics and other omics in date palm.

This book collates the basic and advanced concepts of plant biotechnology and genomics along with the future trends.

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference is a concise version of the widely read Agrochemicals Desk Reference and Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference.

Environmental Fate and Transport Analysis with Compartment Modeling explains how to use the powerful, highly flexible, and intuitive compartment approach to estimate the distribution of chemical contaminants in environmental media in time and space.

Arsenic (As) is a widely distributed element in the environment having no known useful physiological function in plants or animals.

Sustainable Development has become the leading concept of the 21 century.

This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms, are applied to the marine environment.

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

During recent decades of research by a large group of agricultural scientists working in the diagnostic field, many new methods have been devised to aid farmers in fertilizing their crops more effectively.

Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests provides a comprehensive summary of current information available regarding the general formulation of commercial dispersants and their function to lower oil-water interfacial tension.

Boden-, Luft- und Grundwasserverunreinigungen durch gesundheitsgefährdende Abfallstoffe, z.

This conference proceedings volume presents advanced methods in time series estimation models that are applicable various areas of applied economic research such as international economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance economics and agricultural economics.

Larger amounts of nutritious food are required to feed the growing world population, which is a great challenge due to water shortages and reduced crop plant yield.

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

It has become apparent, during discussions with students and colleagues in forest genetics, that a universal concern is the achievement of diverse goals of forestry from fiber production in industrial as well as farm forests to conserving forest ecosystems.

The book summarizes actual and/or relative environmental impacts resulting from existing and emerging agricultural production technologies, as practised in the USA.

The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals.

Achieving sustainable agricultural development is at the forefront of the poverty reduction objective of the Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Wine has been around for thousands of years, grape growing and wine production is worldwide, and recipes are prolific.

Arthropod resistant crops reduce pesticide pollution, alleviate hunger and improve human nutrition.

The book encompasses different Agriculturally Important microorganisms (AIMs), mechanisms of action and modes of application for sustainable agriculture.

Modem Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1.

This book provides descriptions of current laboratory accreditation schemes and explains why these schemes fall short of assuring data purchasers that the data produced from accredited laboratories are always quality products.

This book provides the administrator with a basic reference for assessing the stage of development of the seed program, identifying needs, developing plans, and taking actions necessary to build a successful seed program to help managers and leaders to plan and implement successful activities.

Students in Technical and Agricultural faculties spend only a limited amount of time on general economics, environmental economics and resource economics.

Digital image processing is a fascinating subject in several aspects.

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

This book assesses the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and identifies lessons learned for governance and policy through this new and innovative approach to collaborative forest management.

For more than 30 years, soil testing has been widely used as a basis for determining lime and fertilizer needs.

This book presents definitions, key concepts and projects in landscape research and related areas, such as landscape science and landscape ecology, addressing and characterising the international role, status, challenges, future and tools of landscape research in the globalised world of the 21st century.

Biotechnology has a significant impact on both medicine and agriculture.

Biofuels and food are dependent on the same resources for production: land, water, and energy.

This textbook deals comprehensively with livestock production diseases and their prevention in the major species: ruminants, swine, and poultry.

Political Agroecology is the first book to offer a systematic and articulated reflection on Political Agroecology from the Agroecological perspective.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Originally published in 1988, this book was written at a time of excessive budgetary costs, huge surpluses and damaging trade conflicts.

This book addresses the grave concerns stemming out due to conventional treatment techniques.

Written by a diverse group of research professionals, Postharvest Decay: Control Strategies is aimed at a wide audience, including researchers involved in the study of postharvest handling of agricultural commodities, and undergraduate and graduate students researching postharvest topics.

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