Agronomy and crop production

Weed management is most successful when it involves an integrated approach using a variety of methods.

A significant crop in our global society, rice is a staple food product for over half of the world's population.

Various biotic factors cause diseases in crops, which result in food losses.

Plants are incredibly sensitive to changes in temperature.

This new volume, Advances in Sorghum Science: Botany, Production, and Crop Improvement, provides an easy-to-read and comprehensive treatment of the sorghum crop.

The development of transgenic crops is revolutionary, but what does it mean for food production, prices and the environment?

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

The pomegranate, Punica granatum L.

This book demonstrates a successful and sustainable model for value addition to millets from production to consumption.

This book gives a detailed overview of production processes and yield formation in field crops and permanent grasslands.

This book discusses agricultural diversification, nutritional security and environmental sustainability.

The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%.

"e;The Organic Grain Grower is the best resource we've seen for small-scale grain growers everywhere.

Soil organic matter (SOM) is a highly reactive constituent of the soil matrix because of its large surface area, high ion exchange capacity, enormous affinity for water due to hygroscopicity, and capacity to form organo-mineral complexes.

Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs discusses the need for the U.

This book enhances our understanding of biological control, integrating historical analysis, theoretical models and case studies in an ecological framework.

This book presents a variety of policy adoption methods, irrigation scheduling, and design procedures in micro irrigation engineering for horticultural crops.

The Impact of Nanoparticles on Agriculture and Soil, part of the Nanomaterials-Plant Interaction series, contributes the most recent insights into understanding the cellular interactions of nanoparticles in an agricultural setting, focusing on current applications and means of evaluating future prospects.

Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years.

Horticultural Plant Breeding is a complete and comprehensive resource for the development of new cultivars or clones of horticultural crops.

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

Crop Physiology: Case Histories of Major Crops updates the physiology of broad-acre crops with a focus on the genetic, environmental and management drivers of development, capture and efficiency in the use of radiation, water and nutrients, the formation of yield and aspects of quality.

This book addresses the opportunity to cultivate a multipurpose, drought resistant and nonfood bioenergy crop, Jatropha curcas L.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

An authoritative review of the implementation of new crop breeding technologies and their role in feeding an increasing global population.

Emerging Contaminants: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment provides a thorough, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary overview of the many categories of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, insecticides, personal care items, and industrial chemicals that are currently impacting the environment.

"e;The agricultural sky"e; is a dominant natural entity that has influenced, interacted with, and guided the evolution of crops, farming practices, and cropping systems.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einige Ergebnisse der Mutationsforschung an Kulturpflanzen" verfügbar.

This contributed volume brings together an inclusive collection of information about the medicinal crop fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum).

This vintage book offers the reader a comprehensive guide to growing hay and pasture crops in arid areas, exploring in detail the various problems and how they can be overcome.

A seed is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food.

Spices provide our food with nutraceutical value rather than actual nutrition.

This book describes the alarming condition of agriculture in the Anthropocene, when the ethical conception of agriculture as a service of common utility for both society and environment has progressively been marginalized.

Viruses are intracellular (inside cells) pathogenic particles that infect other living organisms.

Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, is an insect pest which transmits a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), primarily through feeding in newly emergent foliage of citrus trees.

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

This book deals with the theoretical background and breeding methods of the single dominant male sterile gene, a spontaneous mutant discovered for the first time in wheat.

Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems explains the causative factors of climate change related to agriculture, soil and plants, and discusses the relevant resulting mitigation process.

Breeding Disease-Resistant Horticultural Crops is a complete and comprehensive resource for understanding the concept of breeding disease resistant crops, especially horticultural crops.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 181, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, with each chapter written by an international board of authors.

The use of natural and seeded grass pastures for the feeding of livestock and other unfamiliar uses for the ubiquitous grass family are described in this succinct and beautifully illustrated work.

This book covers the fundamentals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and higher plant symbiosis with potential implications in crop production.

This book demonstrates a successful and sustainable model for value addition to millets from production to consumption.

This new book, Advances in Plant Microbiome Research for Climate-Resilient Agriculture: Toward Sustainable Farming, covers important aspects of plant microbiome research through contributions from scientists with the latest information available in this area of research.

Variability in vegetable pathogens is a critical issue, particularly in changing environments, as it presents challenges to accurate diagnoses and proper management.

Science of crop improvement plays important role in improving crop plants in relation to their economic use for mankind.

Cotton Trading Manual (CTM) is the first work to provide a comprehensive reference source to the conduct of the complex international cotton market.

This new book on the sustainable management of insect pests in important vegetables offers valuable management strategies in detail.