Agronomy and crop production

This book presents detailed explanations of technologies for sustainable production of high-quality and safe cocoa beans for the global confectionary industry.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion on the development of herbicide resistance during the past 50 years, emphasizing the biochemical pathways of herbicide resistance in weeds.

Increased world population, decreased water supply, and climate change all put stresses on the global food supply.

Merging topical data from recently published review and research articles, as well as the knowledge and insight of industry experts, Omics Applications in Crop Science delves into plant science, and various technologies that use omics in agriculture.

Peppers and eggplants are two leading vegetable crops produced and consumed worldwide.

With the advent of new technologies and acquired knowledge, the number of fields in omics and their applications in diverse areas are rapidly increasing in the postgenomics era.

Owing to its considerable winter hardiness, rye is a cereal that played a major role in the feeding of European populations throughout the Middle Ages.

The effects of climate change can already be felt around the world, and they will likely impact all facets of human civilization-from health, livelihood security, agricultural production, and shelter to international trade.

The third most important cereal crop after wheat and corn, rice is a staple food for more than half of the world's population.

Highlighting new technologies, Remote Sensing of Natural Resources explores advanced remote sensing systems and algorithms for image processing, enhancement, feature extraction, data fusion, image classification, image-based modeling, image-based sampling design, map accuracy assessment and quality control.

Written by three of the top professionals in the turfgrass field, Managing Turfgrass Pests, Second Edition brings together hundreds of solutions and best practices to help you manage turfgrass weeds, diseases, and insects more effectively.

In 2010, esteemed researchers gathered at a workshop held at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

This book describes the laws of sustainable soil management to enhance ecosystem services while restoring degraded soils and promoting sustainable use.

Biodiesel-a fuel substitute produced from vegetable oils, animal fats, or algae-is one of the most important renewable natural resources for agrarian countries.

Musa is one of three genera in the family of Musaceae.

Exploration, Identification and Utilization of Barley Germplasm explores the timely global challenges related to barley production posed by the narrowing of biodiversity and problem soils, identifying elite genotypes which will enhance barley breeding and be essential to genetic and evolution studies.

"e;An indictment of our modern agricultural system .

This book collates information on the various aspects of nematode diseases in vegetable crops and their management.

Water stagnation and submergence are major factors in rice growing.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Contained within this book is a complete introductory guide to creating and maintenance hay fields.

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

Originally published in 1901, this book contains a guide to the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany.

This volume deals with the subject of grassland management, looking at such aspects as grazing, mowing, cultivating, etc.

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.

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

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on harvesting broom-corn and making brooms on a small or large scale, written and compiled by the editors of "e;The American Agriculturalist"e;.

Geoinformatics is a cutting-edge tool that develops and uses information science technology that can have far-reaching implications that include boosting agricultural output, increasing food supply, and reducing hunger-related problems in poor and developing countries.

"e;Hay Making"e; deals with every aspect of the process, from cultivation and sowing to mulching and beyond.

Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants.

This important book provides a comprehensive review of our current knowledge of the world's leguminous plants and their symbiotic bacteria.

Completely revised and updated, incorporating almost a decade's worth of developments in this field, Environmental Soil Science, Third Edition, explores the entire reach of the subject, beginning with soil properties and reactions and moving on to their relationship to environmental properties and reactions.

This book has been written to meet the needs of students for biotechnology courses at various levels of undergraduate and graduate studies.

While cereals remain the world's largest food yield - with more than 2.

An instructive and comprehensive overview of the use of biotechnology in agriculture and food production, Biotechnology in Agriculture and Food Processing: Opportunities and Challenges discusses how biotechnology can improve the quality and productivity of agriculture and food products.

In 2007, the first edition of Handbook of Plant Nutrition presented a compendium of information on the mineral nutrition of plants available at that time-and became a bestseller and trusted resource.

While cereals remain the world's largest food yield - with more than 2.

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops.

In this volume, world leaders in potato research review historical and contemporary discoveries resulting in a range of advances.

Recent interest in the health-related, culinary, and biological properties of berries is stimulating new initiatives in berry breeding and production.

Third in a three volume series, this book presents the basic and applied aspects of gene sequencing and its implication in the fine-scale elucidation of plant genomes.

Several studies have demonstrated that mycorrhizal associations play vital role in plant nutrition.

The soybean is an economically important leguminous seed crop for feed and food products that is rich in seed protein (about 40 percent) and oil (about 20 percent); it enriches the soil by fixing nitrogen in symbiosis with bacteria.

Soil-The Basis of All Terrestrial LifeAncient civilizations and cultures-Mayan, Aztec, Mesopotamian, Indus, and Yangtze-were built on good soils, surviving only as long as soils had the capacity to support them.

Crop water use can be increased by management of surface runoff, groundwater, irrigation, and soil water.

The high level of genetic complexity in sugarcane creates challenges when applying either conventional or molecular breeding to the genetic improvement of sugarcane as a food or energy crop.

Examining the mutual influence between rice and human social evolution over the past 9000 years, this book discusses man's use of the rice plant and its various parts and the genetic and cultivative improvement of the plant by man to increase productivity.

The sunflower has fascinated mankind for centuries.

The deregulation of dietary supplements and natural products marketing by the FDA has widened the natural products market in Europe and worldwide.

Biofuels and food are dependent on the same resources for production: land, water, and energy.