Agricultural science

This comprehensive edited volume collects the most recent information with up-to-date citations, on the decrease in plant productivity under climatic changes and its link with global food security.

Agronomic crops have been a source of foods, beverages, fodders, fuels, medicines and industrial raw materials since the dawn of human civilization.

The book explores the challenges and opportunities associated with high-altitude agro-ecosystems and the factors that influence them.

Millets are small-grained, annual, warm weather cereal.

This book mainly deals with grassland digitalization and recognition through computer vision, which will make contributions to implement of grass auto recognition and data acquisition.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

The book comprises selected proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book presents the progress, changes, and evolvement for apple mechanical harvest during the past decades, which include, but not limited to, bulky harvest method, harvest platform, apple infield sorting, and harvest robotics.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving.

This book covers all aspects of deficiency of essential elements and excess of toxic ones in crop plants.

This book reviews the history and development of rhizobial ecology (diversity, function and interactions with the biotic and abiotic environments), evolution (genome diversification, systematics of symbiotic genes) and application.

This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens.

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth.

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.

The first 50 years of ASEAN integration has brought peace and prosperity to the Southeast Asian region, while the next 50 will undoubtedly be fraught with unprecedented challenges.

Several textbooks and edited volumes are currently available on general soil fertility but to date none have been dedicated to the study of "e;Sustainable Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Soil.

This book, consisting of 8 chapters, describes the state-of-the-art technological progress and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in precision agriculture.

This book is as an extension of previous book "e;Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Agriculture"e; for academicians, researchers, and professionals interested in solving the problems of agricultural plants and products for boosting production by rendering the advanced machine learning including deep learning tools and techniques to computer vision algorithms.

This book discusses genetic engineering of both plants and microbes for making agricultural practices more productive and sustainable.

This book is an important contribution to our understanding of food in China through an ethnographic case study of an alternative food movement in Shanghai and the surrounding countryside.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

This contributed volume aims at bringing together all the genetic engineering tools for managing various types of crop pests.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book provides different facets of India's agro and food processing industry in both organised and unorganised segments.

Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations.

This book brings together contributions from world renowned researchers and practitioners in the field of geotechnical engineering.

This book shares the latest findings on this topic, systematically introduces readers to advances made in robotic harvesting around the globe, and explores the relations between the development of robotic harvesting and the respective social/economic conditions and agricultural business patterns in various countries/regions.

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.

High-quality seed is essential for healthy crops and greater agricultural productivity.

Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.

This book introduces readers to essential advances in the application of physical processing technology in food processing that have been made in recent years.

Microorganisms are ubiquitous on earth.

This book aims to address emerging challenges in the field of agriculture and natural resource management using the principles and applications of data science (DS).

This book review and rearrange the research data of Triticeae published over hundreds of years, applying a modern scientific approach.

This book is an advanced textbook and a reference book for the post-graduate plant-breeding students and the plant breeders.

Increasing world population, unpredictable climate and various kind of biotic and abiotic stresses necessitate the sustainable increase in crop production through developing improved cultivars possessing enhanced genetic resilience against all odds.

This book covers the important diseases and pests of potato which are of global significance.

This book is a compilation of latest work in the field of urban soil management.

The edited book consolidates information for profitable commercial cultivation of medicinal mushrooms.

This third volume in the set of books is dedicated to various sustainable approaches in textiles and fashion sector with a focus on fibres and raw materials employed.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book addresses some key strategic questions related to agriculture in the context of major contemporary developments and emerging challenges in Nepal such as the changing role of agriculture with economic growth, structural transformation in reducing poverty, improving nutritional outcomes, and addressing the challenges of climate change.

This book consists of the major findings of the series projects on smart rice farming in Japan, headed by President of the Society of Agricultural Informatics.

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

This book is the first to systematically explore experimental erosion by integrating theory, erosion observations, and conservation applications.

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

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.

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