Agricultural science

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book focuses on recent milestones in basic and applied mycology, focusing on many and diverse applications in the agricultural, food, and biofuel sectors.

The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma.

High-value crops are non-staple plants that give much higher return per unit area than staple crops.

Applying Local Climate Effects to Homicide Investigation presents the concepts behind using local climate and weather records to enhance understanding of criminal cases.

Based on a conference, this book is intended to promote a better understanding of the effects of adjuvants on pesticide penetration, translocation, photodegradation and stability, spray deposition and dissipation, and the fate of herbicides in the environment.

Molecular farming is a biotechnological approach that includes the genetic adjustment of agricultural products to create proteins and chemicals for profitable and pharmaceutical purposes.

The papers in this book study economic development from the perspective of social justice and economic efficiency; exploring the role of land tenure and productivity in Indian agriculture.

Since 1980, our understanding of the factors and processes governing the distribution of soils on the Earth's surface has increased dramatically, as have the techniques for studying soil patterns.

During the early development and throughout the short history of green/conservation criminology, limited attention has been directed toward quantitative analyses of relevant environmental crime, law and justice concerns.

Climate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution, reaching the production level of 250 million tonnes in India.

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world's peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors.

Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth explores how human technologies can be managed to ensure the long-term sustainability of our species and of other life forms with which we share this world.

Over the past 20 years, synchrotron-based research applications have provided important insight into the geochemical cycling of ions and the chemical and crystallographic properties of minerals in soils and sediments.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable.

The Handbook of Cucurbits: Growth, Cultural Practices, and Physiology contains information on cultural practices, nutrition, and physiological processes of cucurbits under both normal and stressful conditions.

This dictionary includes some 9200 terms, each with a definition and often and additional descriptive text in English, the terms being translated in French, German and Spanish.

This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment.

This second volume of a two-volume work reviews beneficial bioactive compounds from various microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, cyanobacteria in plant diseases management and the postharvest management of fruits using microbial antagonists.

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the concept of "e;smart villages"e; Written by an authoritative group of scholars, it discusses various aspects that are essential to fostering the development of successful smart villages.

This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and cons.

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa.

This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary with future prospective for sustainable development of agriculture.

Includes a DVD Containing All Figures and Supplemental Images in PowerPointThis new edition of Plant Propagation Concepts and Laboratory Exercises presents a robust view of modern plant propagation practices such as vegetable grafting and micropropagation.

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

While the importance of food to health and well-being is clear, the specific ways in which food systems contribute to individual and community health are not well understood.

This book will be of immense helpful to the students of plant biotechnology, Agricultural sciences, Microbiology of both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities, colleges, and Research institutes.

This book is not, in any case, in total defiance of the Wise Old Man's admonition, for it is not an entirely new book.

This edited volume covers the application of modern breeding tools for developing climate-smart pulse crop cultivars.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Versuche zur Bestimmung des Wassergehaltes des Erdbodens auf thermischer Grundlage" verfügbar.

This book analyses the diffusion and implementation of Aid Effectiveness Principles in Kenya's agricultural sector.

This book is a comprehensive summary of current global research on no-till farming, and its benefits and challenges from various agronomic, environmental, social and economic perspectives.

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity worldwide.

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values.

For the past decade, there has been success in using conventional map-based strategies in identification and cloning of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in model plant species including tomato and Arabidopsis.

This book presents various aspects of salt and drought stress signaling in crops, combining physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies.

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "e;holiday hunger"e; in the United Kingdom.

Buckwheat: Forgotten crop for the Future offers an overview of this globally important crop, including its history, origin and its importance to functional food sector.

This book addresses the livelihood impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation measures on the forest dependent communities of India.

Estimating evapotranspiration (ET) has been one of the most critical research areas in agriculture because of water scarcity, the growing population, and climate change.

This book assists in the adoption of the sustainable cross-sectoral nexus approach of agrivoltaics, which can provide a quite significant untapped potential for the sustainable development of humanity.

This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.

Agriculture is facing unprecedented challenges including climate change, declining arable land, and a growing global population.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Root disease epidemics, because much of the activity takes place in soil and out of sight, pose special challenges to growers who seek to manage them and to scientists who study them.

This volume is the first publication of its kind to provide a fully comprehensive and detailed approach to the survey of microbial associations in soil: their structure and function in relation to soil fertility and environment protection.

In 2002 the 100th anniversary of the publication on "e;Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen"e; by Gottlieb Haberlandt was celebrated.

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa.