Agriculture and farming

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

Aquareoviruses cause infection in bony fish and shellfish and thus, constitute a significant threat to aquaculture industries worldwide.

This book discusses advances in our understanding of the structure and function of the maize genome since publication of the original B73 reference genome in 2009, and the progress in translating this knowledge into basic biology and trait improvement.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world.

Central Asia is a large and understudied region of varied geography, ranging from the high passes and mountains of Tian Shan, to the vast deserts of Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan to the grassy treeles steppes.

This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of modern strategies in fruit crop breeding in the era of climate change and global warming.

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals.

The book illustrates the role of quorum sensing in the food industry, agriculture, veterinary sciences, and medicine.

In this unique book, Michel Thellier has combined recent discoveries with older data dealing with plant memory and its potential role on plant acclimatization to environment stimuli.

This book presents comprehensive reviews on the latest developments of nanotechnologies to detect and remove pollutants in water, air and food.

This monograph is a fundamental study of watershed erosion and runoff processes.

This book provides an overview of the recent advancements for plant scientists with a research focus on phytohormones and their responses (nature, occurrence, and functions) in plant cells.

This book discusses machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for agricultural economics.

This book covers powder flow properties, their measurement and applications.

This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily).

This book serves as the first comprehensive compilation describing the breeding strategies and genetics and genomics of the coconut palm.

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies.

This book elaborates on the transformation of agricultural development in China into the construction of a "e;resource and ecologically sound society"e;, and the coordinated development of industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization in China.

Sucking pests are most notorious group of pests for agricultural crops.

This volume presents select papers presented during the Second International Conference on Waste Management held at IIT Guwahati.

This book establishes the equations of limit analysis and provides a complete theoretical basis for foundation capacity, slope stability, and earth pressure.

This book presents research on volatiles produced by microbes and plants along with their biotechnological implications for sustainable agriculture.

This book explores the sustainability aspect of organic and conventional farming systems, which is commonly categorized into three sub-aspects: social, environmental and economic.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

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

This book is an important addition to the knowledge of lobster research.

This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge.

The Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869 is the most widely farmed sturgeon species.

Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change.

This book focuses on signaling molecules in plant defense, outlining some of the most important cellular and chemical plant defense strategies during periods of stress and growth.

This book is a sound science report about the consequences of pesticides to nature, health and environment.

This third volume on environmental nanotechnology includes chapters dealing with topics such nanoremediation, waste water purification, nanosensors, nanomedicine, and nanofiltration.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of on abiotic stresses in terms of the challenges; scope and opportunities; copping strategies for adaptation and mitigation using novel tools for building resilience in agricultural crops and livestock; as well as for policy implementation.

The emergence of nanotechnology and the development of new nanodevices and nanomaterials have opened up exciting opportunities for novel applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

This book explores the impact of soil water deficiency on various aspects of physiological processes in plants.

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean.

While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past.

This book provides a detailed review of the accumulated experience and lessons from China's agricultural reform and opening-up since the late 1970s, examining various aspects of this transition and providing a new perspective that can contribute to developing economic theories.

Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature.

This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems.

This book introduces readers to both seed treatment and seedling pretreatments, taking into account various factors such as plant age, growing conditions and climate.

This book addresses the threats that hamper the achievement of sustainable soil management: soil erosion by water and wind, soil organic carbon loss, nutrient imbalance, salinization, contamination, acidification, loss of soil biodiversity, surface sealing, compaction and water logging.

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

This book examines the various issues and concerns faced by Indian agriculture under the obligations of WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

In this monograph, the core elements of multidisciplinary bioremediation practices are addressed and environmental pollutants which can be effectively remediated using weeds is focused upon.

This book, Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Crop Management, is a comprehensive guide designed to explore the various facets of integrating machine learning into agricultural practices.

Silent Spring catalyzed an environmental movement in the 1960s and achieved a ban on DDT, but are the alternatives any less toxic?

Pesticides are now accepted as an integral part of modern agricultural production.

This book introduces the highly topical issue from many different angles, sensitizing readers to the various challenges to human life posed by climate change, identifying possible intentional and inadvertent anthropogenic factors and consequences, and seeking socially and environmentally viable solutions.