Agriculture and farming

This book is based on research that gives the reader a nonfiction view of how Cuba's landscape has changed since the time when Columbus first set foot on the island and encountered the Indigenous peoples who lived there in 1492 to present day.

This volume explores the latest techniques used for sustainable development of eco-friendly pest management systems.

This volume examines the integration of water resource management for sustainable utilization with the optimum allocation of water use for regional economic development.

This book discusses the research progress on pathology, entomology, nematology, and resource management of wheat and barley crops.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of agricultural biotechnology, agro-food systems and forestry, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on Safety, Health and Welfare in Agriculture and Agro-food Systems (SHWA), held in Ragusa, Italy, on September 15-18, 2021.

The book deals with the most striking landscapes and landforms of Nigeria.

Fish are classified in several classes by which its study becomes easier.

This contributed volume gives a state-of-the-art overview of microplastics and nanoplastics (MPs and NPs) in soils and their relationship with growing plants.

This book will expound the latest information on the current state of persimmon genomics and transcriptomics, with a particular focus on the latest findings and analysis in relation to the most important agronomic traits.

Over the last few decades, various techniques have been developed to alter the properties of plants and animals.

This volume offers the latest theory, procedures, techniques and applications pertaining to the bioremediation of pesticides, as well as current case studies.

This volume is intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of recent innovations related to the study of agricultural and environmental management for sustainable development.

This book focuses on the nature and properties of soils of Hindu Kush-Himalayas and their management for agricultural land use.

The book introduces fish distant hybridization, which covers the basic theory and applications of fish distant hybridization as well as the main biological characteristics of different ploidy fish at the individual, tissue, cell, and molecular level.

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

Written to highlight the water related problems of the Himalayan region the book is organised in such a manner that the reader is exposed to the ground-realities in the Himalaya through a series of case studies, apart from the theoretical aspects of the water related problems.

This book entitled General Agriculture and Engineering covers all the MCQs in major topics of agriculture which are most important in competitive exam point of view.

Plant breeding is the genetic improvement of crop plants in relation to their economic use for mankind.

This book describes the impact of Era 4.

This book is a compilation of advancements and achievements in the field of sugar beet cultivation.

This book introduces key concepts in modeling and risk assessments of vapor intrusion, a process by which the subsurface volatile contaminants migrate into the building of concern.

This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction.

There are multiple variants of environmental footprints such as carbon footprint, ecological footprint, water footprint, nitrogen footprint and so on.

In the last 20 years, research activity using the zebrafish Danio rerio has increased dramatically, due in part to the ease of breeding and raising them, their genetic tractability, embryonic accessibility, and their imaging potential.

This detailed volume explores barley as both a crop and a model, with practical techniques such as crossing barley, a range of tissue culture methods, the preparation of barley tissues for different forms of microscopy, and the assessment of sensitivity to abiotic stresses.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation describing the importance of sandalwood in national and international markets, genetic resources, molecular markers, whole genome sequencing, and pathway genes involved in oil biosynthesis, aroma and fragrance.

The book contains proceedings of the XV International Scientific Conference INTERAGROMASH 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

This edited book collates latest findings in the field of agro-biodiversity and agri-ecosystem management across the globe through selected case studies.

This book is the 8th volume of the popular series 'Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World'.

This Monograph focuses on the new approaches that urban agriculture offers to grow food in cities.

This book is a practical guide for biologists who use multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for their data analysis and are looking for a comprehensive overview of the many different programs.

This book explores issues of agricultural development and the provision of food security, providing a core framework and recommendations for implementing sustainable development goals in these areas.

Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future.

Ending hunger, achieving food security and promoting sustainable development are at the top of the list of United Nations (UN) sustainable global development priorities.

This book highlights the approaches for achieving trans-disciplinary research integration for "e;semi-arid dryland agriculture systems"e; under changing climates, while also identifying the elements of a collaborative research agenda that are needed to advance global food security.

The cadmium (Cd) contamination has raised increasingly global concern on food safety.

This timely book collects the latest research on digital transformations unfolding in agriculture across the globe, with a special focus on Russia and the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

This volume describes breeding methods for the development of biparental and multiparental mapping populations.

This book discusses the problems in planning, building, and management strategies in the wake of application and expansion of remote sensing and GIS products in natural resources and infrastructure management.

High-value crops are non-staple plants that give much higher return per unit area than staple crops.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of existing knowledge on the impact of cisgenic crops on biodiversity, environment, and ecosystem.

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

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 178, 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 book revisit in depth scope of agroindustrial waste for enhancement in biofuels production on practical ground.

The field of primatology has expanded substantially in the last twenty years, particularly with regard to studies of primates in human-altered landscapes.

Agriculture forms the backbone of India economy and its dominating position in the national economy can be judged from the fact that it contributes a major share of national income and provides livelihood to over seventy per cent of the population.

This edited book covers major importance of tropical forest diversity and its values to vegetation, wildlife, and the local community.