Agricultural science

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 'Forum "e;Math-for-Industry"e; 2016 ' (FMfl2016), held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, on November 21-23, 2016.

Agriculture is the science or occupation of cultivating land and rearing crops and livestock.

This book comprehensively introduces stripe rust disease, its development and its integral control.

Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.

The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity.

This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs.

This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

The second edition of this extensive work is the definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important area of food and agricultural ethics.

This book provides a synopsis of the methods for analyzing soil physical, chemical, biological and biochemical properties, quantifying nutrient content of fertilizers and manures, active ingredient of pesticides and quality of irrigation water and industrial effluents.

Soils are porous and open bodies, yet they retain water.

Farmers strive to grow healthy plants that produce an economic yield while minimizing environmental impact.

This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development.

This book puts an updated account on functional aspects of multiphasic microbial interactions within and between plants and their ecosystem.

This book gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers.

This book presents an exhaustive overview of the theoretical foundations and practical applications of biocontrol in agriculture.

Westcott's Plant Disease is a reference book on diseases which attack plants.

This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.

This books gives a complete overview of the Soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industries and future soils issues.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest issues faced by the mankind.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on the many facets of the plant microbiome, including diversity, ecology, physiology and genomics, as well as molecular mechanisms of plant-microbe interactions.

This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology and the effects of nanoparticles on agricultural systems, their interactions with plants as well as their potential applications as fertilizers and pesticides.

This book presents the latest advances in rice genomics, genetics and breeding, with a special focus on their importance for rice biology and how they are breathing new life into traditional genetics.

This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production.

This book systematically covers the fundamentals and applications of modified biochar.

Powdery mildew disease is the fourth most widespread disease in cruciferous crops and a devastating effect, causing significant losses in terms of quality and quantity in rapeseed and mustard.

Polyphagous pests are primarily agricultural pests that feed on economically important agricultural and horticultural crops of wide taxonomic diversity across the globe.

This book illustrates the importance and significance of bioinformatics in the field of agriculture.

This book illustrates the currently available strategies for managing phytonematodes.

This is the first book to focus on farm and rural community management in less favored areas of Japan.

This textbook is a comprehensive volume on sprinklers and drip irrigation and covers all the basic and fundamentals concepts related to these topics.

This book discusses the various aspects of the health and nutritional benefits of the wonder grains, small millets.

Plant tissue culture (PTC) technology has gained unassailable success for its various commercial and research applications in plant sciences.

This book provides insights on innovative strategies to build resilient food systems in the wake of challenges posed by climate change.

Most landslides are triggered by rainfall.

This book provides an overview of the latest developments and future challenges in enzyme inhibitor research.

This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures "e;in"e; and "e;for"e; agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher.

This book covers important topics on various neglected and underutilised crops (vegetables, cereals, fruit crops).

This book presents recent findings on virtually every aspect of wireless IoT and analytics for agriculture.

This book presents biotechnological advances and approaches to improving the nutritional value of agri-foods.

This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes.

This book gathers selected proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society, and covers various aspects of soil dynamics and earthquake geotechnical engineering.

The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of 'development', is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India.

This book is designed to popularize Quinoa cereal among both scientific and food industry.

This edited book covers all aspects of grain legumes including negative impact of abiotic and biotic stresses under the changing global climate.

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation of principles, conventional and molecular approaches used to develop improved varieties and hybrids of major crops in light of their origin, evolution, taxonomy, production and productivity and need by human civilization.

This book collects all the latest technologies with their implications on the global rice cultivation.

This book is first part of the 3 volume set focusing on basic and advanced methods for using microbiology as an entrepreneurial venture.

This book explores various aspects of thermophilic and halophilic microbes from Eurasian ecosystems, which have proved to offer a unique reservoir of genetic diversity and biological source of extremophiles.