Agriculture and farming

This edited volume covers all aspects of the latest research in the field of soil formation and its functioning, soil diversity, soil proteomics, the impact of anthropogenic activities on the pedosphere, plant-microbe interactions in the pedosphere, and factors influencing the formation and functioning of the soils.

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

The book presents a machine-generated literature review on CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) from 114 selected papers published by Springer Nature in the last few years, which are then organized by the book editors with a human-written introduction to each chapter.

Dragon fruit (pitaya) is a perennial climbing cactus, native to the tropical areas of North, Central and South America.

This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale.

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.

This edited compilation explores role of climate change in plant stresses, their mitigators, their role, mode of action and, application.

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

This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus.

This book covers the important diseases and pests of potato which are of global significance.

This book has 11 chapters which systematically introduce the latest achievements in scientific research and technological application of the forage industry in China, and also cover the laws and polices related to forage production.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

The book offers an updated perspective on the unique characteristics of millets.

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation highlighting sources of biostimulants, their production, influence on plant growth and development, and regulatory status of plant biostimulants for better understanding and opening new vistas for future research.

This book collates the basic and advanced concepts of plant biotechnology and genomics along with the future trends.

This book covers the use and dynamics of potassium fertilizers in agriculture.

This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers' food security.

This book presents latest work in the field of plant biotechnology regarding high-efficiency micropropagation for commercial exploitation at low labor and equipment costs.

Sustainable increase in agricultural production while keeping the environmental quality, agro-ecosystem function and biodiversity is a real challenge in current agricultural practices.

Agriculture is currently facing multi-faceted threats in the form of unpredictable weather variability, frequent droughts and scarcity of irrigation water, together with the degradation of soil resources and declining environmental health.

This volume explains the recent findings on the mutualistic plant-microbe interactions and how they can be utilized for sustainable agriculture practices including land reclamation.

The book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all.

This book presents latest work in the field of plant biotechnology regarding high-efficiency micropropagation for commercial exploitation at low labor and equipment costs.

The book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all.

The edited book consolidates information for profitable commercial cultivation of medicinal mushrooms.

The book discusses one of the major challenges in agriculture which is delivery of cultivate produce to the end consumers with best possible price and quality.

This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of duck production and management.

This book aims to address emerging challenges in the field of agriculture and natural resource management using the principles and applications of data science (DS).

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation of principles, conventional and molecular approaches used to develop improved varieties and hybrids of major crops in light of their origin, evolution, taxonomy, production and productivity and need by human civilization.

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

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

This book presents the progress, changes, and evolvement for apple mechanical harvest during the past decades, which include, but not limited to, bulky harvest method, harvest platform, apple infield sorting, and harvest robotics.

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

Plant secondary metabolites are plant-based natural products that display a variety of pharmacological effects.

The book discusses up-to-date and detailed information about the nutritional quality of forage in the biodiversity-rich Himalayan region and their potential in livestock feeding.

This book investigates the effect of the Green Revolution (GR) on long-term changes in the fertility status of paddy soils in tropical Asia.

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 comprehensive edited volume collects the most recent information with up-to-date citations, on the decrease in plant productivity under climatic changes and its link with global food security.

This book collects all the latest technologies with their implications on the global rice cultivation.

This volume explains the recent findings on the mutualistic plant-microbe interactions and how they can be utilized for sustainable agriculture practices including land reclamation.

This book outlines comprehensive information on the global trends, policies, research priorities and frontier innovations made in the research domain of breeding, biotechnology, biofortification and quality enhancement of wheat and barley.

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

The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture.

This book provides an up-to-date review of classic and advanced bioinformatics approaches and their utility in rice research.

This book describes innovative agricultural methods using thermal and non-thermal microwave or plasma energies.

Eating locally and developing an urban-rural food continuum is a rapidly evolving movement.

This edited book provides knowledge about hemicelluloses biorefinery approaching production life cycle, circular economy, and valorization by obtaining value-added bioproducts and bioenergy.

This edited book brings out a comprehensive collection of information on the modern omics-based research.

The book is presenting a comprehensive information on fundamental, and applied knowledge of Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin.

This book covers important topics on various neglected and underutilised crops (vegetables, cereals, fruit crops).