Agricultural science

Sustainable management of soils is an important global issue of the 21st century.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research and practices for adaptation to climate change in food production systems (agriculture in particular) as observed in Japan and neighboring Asian countries.

Plant breeding has the potential to improve quality of life for millions of people, and to harmoniously link agriculture, societies and ecosystems.

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the application of the new knowledge gained to improve the productivity of agricultural crops, as also to enhance their resistance to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses.

This edited book highlights the latest information on the use of nanotechnology, satellite technology, and biotechnological tools in pest management.

This book is the first in a two-volume set devoted to bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) and the opportunities that they may offer in providing a green solution to growing energy demands worldwide.

This book is a collection of fifteen contributions that undertake a detailed analysis of seven broad dimensions of India's economy and society.

Globally stone fruits are emerging in the market due to the increased consumer's desire for health-promoting foods.

This book covers the use and dynamics of potassium fertilizers in agriculture.

This book examines the mechanisms and strategies farmers in North Australia adopt to manage the setbacks and challenges they face.

This book is a useful resource  for government policy analysts, academics, students of higher education and business practitioners interested in African economies  and the key economic issues these economies are facing in 2020.

This textbook provides practical guidelines on conducting experiments across the entire spectrum of environmental biotechnology.

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies.

Microbial enzymes play a vital role in maintaining soil health and removing pollutants from contaminated land.

In recent decades, significant advances in new methodologies like DNA sequencing and high-throughput sequencing have been used to identify microorganisms and monitor their interactions with different environments.

This edited compilation explores role of climate change in plant stresses, their mitigators, their role, mode of action and, application.

This book provides an up-to-date review of classic and advanced bioinformatics approaches and their utility in rice research.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

To meet the rising demand for scientific evidence in the context of rural tourism research, this book explores tourism and tourism-related diversification activities performed by farming households and entrepreneurs in rural communities.

The book offers an updated perspective on the unique characteristics of millets.

This book presents up-to-date information on various vector-less/direct (physical, chemical) and vector-mediated/indirect (Agrobacterium-mediated) plant transformation techniques.

This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality.

This book discusses various aspects of bioactive natural products employed in the agrochemical and agriculture sectors.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor in the context of the quality and productivity of many ornamental, horticultural and other economically important agricultural crops worldwide.

This edited volume covers all aspects of the latest research in the field of soil formation and its functioning, soil diversity, soil proteomics, the impact of anthropogenic activities on the pedosphere, plant-microbe interactions in the pedosphere, and factors influencing the formation and functioning of the soils.

Fertilizers have been used extensively around the globe since the Green Revolution, due to the high subsidies.

Providing an exhaustive background on the history of genetically modified organism (GMO) crops and foods as well as the controversies surrounding these products, this book allows readers to develop their own particular viewpoint on the production and use of GMO substances.

This detailed volume explores practical procedures on the identification and quantification of pesticides in a variety of samples.

Plant Cold Acclimation: Methods and Protocols details many of the methods and protocols commonly used to study plant cold acclimation and freezing tolerance, breeding, genetics, physiology or molecular biology, or any combination of these specialties.

As increasing global population and continuing economic development ensure the need for further production and cultivation of maize, the necessity of the application of transgenic technology to this model species and crop plant grows steadily.

This book details sorghum breeding technologies, grain compounds, nutrition and digestibility, biotechnology methods, broad renewable applications and an economic study.

The avian influenza (AI) virus, which is the type A influenza virus adapted to an avian host, has been an important pathogen for the poultry industry worldwide for many years.

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

This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analyzing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out existing solutions, and finding opportunities for sustainable design intervention.

This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analyzing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out existing solutions, and finding opportunities for sustainable design intervention.

The yield of major agricultural crops can be severely decreased due to the inappropriate application of commonly used harmful chemicals.

Examine the ways in which various plants respond when exposed to high and low temperatures!

Cereal Crops: Genetic Resources and Breeding Techniques provides the reader practical tools for understanding relationships and challenges of successful farming; improvements to genetic modifications; and environmentally sound methods of production of bulk and quality cereals including wheat, maize, rice, barley, and millets.

Cereal Crops: Genetic Resources and Breeding Techniques provides the reader practical tools for understanding relationships and challenges of successful farming; improvements to genetic modifications; and environmentally sound methods of production of bulk and quality cereals including wheat, maize, rice, barley, and millets.

Examine the ways in which various plants respond when exposed to high and low temperatures!

The yield of major agricultural crops can be severely decreased due to the inappropriate application of commonly used harmful chemicals.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

This volume discusses the nutraceutical importance, production technologies, management and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables, which can be described as those vegetable crops which are neither grown commercially on a large scale nor traded widely.

This volume discusses the nutraceutical importance, production technologies, management and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables, which can be described as those vegetable crops which are neither grown commercially on a large scale nor traded widely.

This book highlights the latest findings and techniques related to nutrition and feed efficiency in animal agriculture.

Modern tree fruit orchards and vineyards constitute complex production systems that are exposed to highly dynamic and stochastic natural, financial and societal forces, and face demands for increased production using fewer resources, with reduced environmental impact.

This book represents the first comprehensive edition, in English, on the soils of Brazil, in the challenge of illustrating all the biomes of a country of truly continental dimension.

The demand for organic foods has been expanding at a steady rate, and during the COVID-19 epidemic, it increased even further, as consumers regarded these foods as healthier and better for immunity than conventional foods.