Agricultural science

This book enhances the discussion of anthropized soils with photographs of soil profiles and provides general information about soils in Japan, using data on their physical and chemical properties.

Biosurfactants are the surface-active biomolecules produced by microorganisms.

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of resilience in agriculture, and implications for producers seeking to adapt to change and uncertainty.

Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis offers a comprehensive rationale of electroanalysis, revealing its enormous potential in agricultural food analysis.

This book brings new smart farming methodologies to the forefront, sparked by pervasive applications with automated farming technology.

The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s - came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture approach.

A broad view of plant-pathogen interactions illustrating the fundamental reciprocal role pathogens and hosts play in shaping each other''s ecology and evolution.

Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation.

This volume presents a variety of case studies detailing how imperatives of social sustainability are handled in several industries.

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.

Medicinal and aromatic plants are beneficial to human health.

This book features selected proceedings from the "e;2024 International Conference on Geotechnics and Hydraulic Structure,"e; focusing on Geotechnical Engineering and Intelligent Disaster Prediction.

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The 14th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress was held in Beijing, China from October 27th through November 1st, 2004.

The international advanced research workshop funded by NATO and entitled "e;impact of pollutions on animal and animal products"e; was organized at Almaty (Kazakhstan) on 27-30 September 2007.

This book discusses the role of salt in current agricultural approaches, including the low salt tolerance of agricultural crops and trees, impact of saline soils, and salt-resistant plants.

This book examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, industrial design, digital media, building integrated design, and many others.

Air quality has a direct influence on health, welfare and production performance of livestock as the high concentrations of noxious gases, dust and airborne microorganisms are likely to reduce production efficiency and the general welfare of farm animals.

Explains how Design for the Environment (SFE) and Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) processes may be integrated into business an dmanufacturing practices.

This book covers different male sterility systems employed for genetic improvement of vegetable crops.

A little known and under-appreciated area in criminology is knowledge about the extent, pattern, and costs of crime committed against agriculture.

Diversity of microbial communities in soil and their multifaceted functionalities has paved the way for utilization of microbes in industries.

In this book, some of the most qualified scientists review different food safety topics, ranging from emerging and reemerging foodborne pathogens, food regulations in the USA, food risk analysis and the most important foodborne pathogens based on food commodities.

The Stud Managers' Handbook includes presentations made at the International Stockmen's School, January 2-6, 1983.

This book focuses on state-of-the-art sensing and automation technologies for field crops and in-house product production and provides a lot of innovative knowledge on image processing, AI algorithms and applications in agriculture, and robotics.

This important 2-volume reference book is the first comprehensive resource reflecting the current global status and prospects of date palm cultivation by country.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

This reference book explores the multifaceted problem of heavy metal contamination in the environment.

Post-agricultural studies have been central to the development of both the science of plant ecology and ecology in general.

This book is a unified, condensed, and simplified version of the recently issued twin volumes, Fundamentals of Soil Physics and Applications of Soil Physics.

The production and consumption of vegetables has expanded dramatically in the last years, with a global growth in the production of more than 50% in the last decade, a rate of increase that is much higher than for other plant commodities.

Abstract This chapter defines food security as the condition reached when a nation's population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet its dietary needs and food preferences.

Strongly grounded in the scientific method and evidence, The Environment: Science, Issues, and Solutions presents an organized, accessible, building block approach that introduces the principles of ecology.

This book examines the role that bioremediation can play in the detoxification of soil, water, and air to improve environmental and human health, with a specific focus on heavy metals and radionuclides.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

Arsenic is likely the most talked-about metalloid in the modern world because of its toxic effects on both animal and plants.

The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world.

Today, nutrition is mainly discussed under nutritional, medical-health or ideological aspects (e.

This book contributes to a deeper understanding of landscape and regional modelling in general, and its broad range of facets with respect to various landscape parameters.

Soil Essentials is a practical reference for farmers and land managers covering soil issues commonly encountered at the farm level.

The monograph focuses on agricultural meteorology and climate change and its impacts on different crops.

This book explores recent advances on the use of microbes for agri-forestry biotechnological applications.

Reviews a wide range of methods for soil physical analysis.

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Nodules produced on legume roots by root-nodule bacteria provide the major nitrogenous input into natural and agricultural systems worldwide.

This book describes the consequences of an increased demand for food for human consumption for the global food industry.