Agronomy and crop production

The Earth's climate is constantly changing.

The fight against global hunger demands a fresh perspective.

Rhizosphere biology is approaching a century of investigations wherein growth-promoting rhizomicroorganisms (PGPR) have attracted special attention for their ability to enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability at a time when food security and rural livelihood are a key priority.

Soil Health and Intensification of Agroecosystems examines the climate, environmental, and human effects on agroecosystems and how the existing paradigms must be revised in order to establish sustainable production.

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2.

The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective presents an alternative approach to understanding cultural variation and change.

The Beans and the Peas: From Orphan to Mainstream Crops presents a comprehensive literature resource on the most important food legume crops previously known as "e;orphans,"e; but which are increasingly becoming mainstream as their production opportunities have been improved through genetic improvement and biotechnology, and their role as an important nutrient source gains urgency.

The Future Rice Strategy for India presents forward-looking insights toward achieving sustainable development of the rice sector, ensuring future food and nutritional security.

Tropical Diseases of Legumes consists of papers presented at a workshop held at Rio Piedras Agricultural Station, University of Puerto Rico, in June 1974.

Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice focuses on concepts and methods in farm planning.

This second edition of Working with Dynamic Crop Models is meant for self-learning by researchers or for use in graduate level courses devoted to methods for working with dynamic models in crop, agricultural, and related sciences.

Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population.

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

The symposium was organised by Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited and the Australian Grain Institute Incorporated in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations.

This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe field trials in oil palm breeding.

The pomegranate, Punica granatum L.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Polyploidie der Rüben" verfügbar.

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods.

Algorithim (mathematics) helps in understanding the direct and indirect relationship of plants that exist within it and other environmental factors.

Transcription Factors for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants highlights advances in the understanding of the regulatory network that impacts plant health and production, providing important insights for improving plant resistance.

This is a practical guide to mutation breeding in oil palm, representing completely novel work supported by the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division (Vienna, Austria).

Genomic Applications for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress, Quality and Yield Improvement is the second of two volumes looking at the latest advances in genomic applications to crop breeding.

Volume 58 contains seven reviews covering key contemporary topics on crop and soil sciences.

A state-of-the-art overview on important topics relating to the breeding of agriculturally and horticulturally important plants.

Completely revised, updated and enlarged, now encompassing two volumes, this third edition of Fruit and Vegetables reviews and evaluates, in comprehensive detail, postharvest aspects of a very wide international range of fresh fruit and vegetables as it applies to their physiology, quality, technology, harvest maturity determination, harvesting methods, packaging, postharvest treatments, controlled atmosphere storage, ripening and transportation.

Methods of strawberry cultivation have undergone extensive modification and this book provides an up-to-date, broad and balanced scientific review of current research and emerging challenges.

From climate change to farming systems to genetic modification of organisms, Crop Physiology, Second Edition provides a practical tool for understanding the relationships and challenges of successful cropping.

Application of Mutation Breeding Methods in the Improvement of Vegetatively Propagated Crops: An Interpretive Literature Review summarizes advances in the use of artificially induced mutations to improve cultivated plants, particularly those that are vegetatively propagated.

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

This title provides a general overview of recent developments and research into types of systems and their uses in the agricultural and horticultural industry.

Soil organic matter (SOM) is the primary determinant of soil functionality.

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.

Throughout the world cotton is broadly adapted to growing in temperate, sub-tropical, and tropical environments, but growth may be challenged by future climate change.

Plant Resources of Arid and Semiarid Lands: A Global Perspective is a collection of papers that evaluates the existing native plant resources in the arid and semiarid regions.

The technology that allows automation in agriculture is rapidly developing and being applied to wide variety of key crops.

In einer Zeit, in der landwirtschaftliche Betriebe zunehmend unter Druck geraten und sich gegen die Übermacht industrieller Verarbeitungsprozesse behaupten müssen, zeigt Ludwig Obereder einen Ausweg: Selbstvermarktung und Direktvertrieb.

More and more farmers are adopting a diverse range of alternative practices designed to reduce dependence on synthetic chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and antibiotics; cut costs; increase profits; and reduce the adverse environmental consequences of agricultural production.

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of human-plant interactions and their social consequences from the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic Era to the 21st century molecular manipulation of crops.

Quinoa is an invaluable crop, highlighted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as one of the world's main crops for future food security.

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

Dates are an important fruit, especially in many African, Middle-Eastern and Asian countries.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Insect Pests of Potato now includes an opening section with a basic overview of agronomic and economic issues as they relate to potato production.

Water stagnation and submergence are major factors in rice growing.

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

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 187, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, with each written by an international board of authors.

Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions.

Harnessing fungi s enzymatic ability to break down lignocellulolytic biomass to produce ethanol more efficiently and cost-effectively has become a significant research and industrial interest.

Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava?

Plants are subjected to a variety of abiotic stresses such as drought, temperature, salinity, air pollution, heavy metals, UV radiations, etc.