Agricultural science

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 4 of this essential seriesfurnishes information on the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding oilseed crop varieties.

This book provides an overview of the Ocimum genus from its genetic diversity to genome sequences, metabolites and their therapeutic utilities.

Allelopathic studies may be defined in various aspects; weed against weed/crop and vice versa.

This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets.

Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012.

Agroecological footprints are a unique and popular concept for sustainable food system.

This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.

This report contains a collection of papers from a workshopStrengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunisia.

2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature now we have easier and better access to grass data than ever before in human history.

This book comprehensively covers in an easy-to-understand language, the principles and working of advanced analytical techniques used in Dairy Chemistry research.

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

This book explores the potential benefits and disadvantages of geographical indication (GIs) registration schemes, analyzing the utility of GI registrations for the development and promotion of regional economies, both in national and international markets.

Wild Edible Underutilized Plants explores the role of wild plants in human nutrition-a topic that continues to take precedence in various fields of research.

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.

An authoritative reference on food system transformation and how it can be achieved in the face of climate change.

Biotechnological Applications of Photosynthetic Proteins: Biochips, Biosensors and Biodevices provides an overview of the recent photosystem II research and the systems available for the bioassay of pollutants using biosensors that are based on the photochemical activity.

First Published in 1986, this book explores the application of Selection Indices in the process of plant breeding.

This book covers the sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical animal production and health, sustainable tropical forestry, socio-economic dimension in tropical agriculture and innovative and emerging food technology and management as chapters in this book.

Pollution is one of the most serious issues facing mankind and other life forms on earth.

In the present era, rapid industrialization and urbanization has resulted in unwanted physiological, chemical, and biological changes in the environment that have harmful effects on crop quality and productivity.

This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations.

Modern Land Drainage 2nd edition is a fully revised and updated edition of the 2004 edition.

Table 1.

This book provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensible introduction to bioeconomy.

This book is a specialized monograph on soil physical conditions and root-system relations.

This contributed volume provides an overview of the current status of sustainable nanomaterials and their potential applications in various industries, including agriculture.

The coastal tropics comprise some of the most sensitive and yet the most understudied ecosystems in the world.

Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in the world.

In the wake of urbanization and technological advances, public green spaces within cities are disappearing and people are spending more time with electronic devices than with nature.

Rural areas need to fulfil a large variety of functions and to accommodate many activities.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on whole genome sequencing of sesame including genome assembly, annotation, structure and synteny analysis, and sequencing of its chloroplast genome and also its wild species.

 This work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt.

Fertilizer is a vital component of strategies for expanding foodproduction.

Soil and water salinity is a major challenge for the agricultural community and policy makers in terms of meeting the burgeoning population's demand for food and other agricultural commodities.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region.

This book covers all aspects of smart-breeding technologies in creating novel crop architecture to meet future rice demand.

This book covers the fundamentals and methods of biologically producing nanoparticles using microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and algae, along with optimization strategies for microbe-mediated nanoparticle production.

Fresh?

Across the continental United States, one can identify 20 distinct forest cover types.

An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year.

The significance of the climate change and their impacts on fruit crops, their problems, and their solutions determine the need for a book in agriculture.

Recent ecological disasters make human beings aware of changes in the Earth's climate.

This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

Life science has experienced a unique level of growth and development in recent times, as has the area of fruit crop regulation.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of important grain cereals including their origin and distribution, crop gene pool, level of diversity, production constraints, traits of importance for genetic base widening, crop improvement methodologies, genome mapping, genomics for breeding, and future strategies.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology.