Agriculture and farming

Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture identifies and structures more flexible economic incentives for the achievement of environmental goals in agriculture.

Morphometrical differentiation 63 Prediction of breeding origin .

Over forty years ago, concern was first focussed on cadmium contamination of soils, fertilisers and the food chain.

Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space.

Modern approaches to microbial classification and identification, particularly those based on nucleic acid analysis, have raised the awareness and interest of microbiologists in systematics during the past decade.

The Forest Regeneration Manual presents state-of-the-art information about current regeneration practices for southern pines in the United States.

This book is the product of an ICARDA project to define supplemental irrigation in the Near East and North Africa.

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In this book I have collected many reports on the properties of bamboo.

Tropical Africa escaped from the glaciers that covered the temperate parts of the world during the Ice Age.

The research that has culminated in the pUblication being introduced .

Water Pollution is a subject of growing concern in our industrial world.

This volume contains the invited lectures presented during the NATO/ASI conducted in Pullman, Washington, July 9-18, 1989.

The Fifth International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-legumes was held in Florence (Italy) on 10-14 September, 1990.

Soil acidity is a major limitation to crop production in many parts of the world.

In the Netherlands the Institute for Soil Fertility Research plays a major role in soil biological, soil physical and plant nutritional research on the availability of nitrogen to crops.

This proceedings is based on a joint meeting of the two IUFRO (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations) Working Parties, Somatic Cell Genetics (S2.

For the past twenty years I have worked as an applied plant virologist, attempting to identify and control virus diseases in field crops.

The idea for the present volume stems from the In many cases we had to decide ourselves what long time friendship between the series editor and changes had to be made in the manuscript.

Detailed and comprehensive accounts of pre-liming conditions, liming techniques employed, post-liming changes in water quality and fish restoration.

This book is the third in a series of volumes on major tropical and sub-tropical crops.

This book arises out of a symposium on forest and woodland terrestrial ecosystems which was held in Florence on 20-24th May 1991.

The development of pesticide resistance in arthropod pests, plant pathogens and weeds can be viewed and studied from two contrasting perspectives.

Agriculture is changing rapidly all over the world.

In the early seventies, scientists in Israel and The Netherlands started a cooperative project on actual and potential production under semi-arid conditions.

Tropical climates, which occur between 23(deg)30'N and S latitude (Jacob 1988), encompass a wide variety of plant communities (Hartshorn 1983, 1988), many of which are diverse in their woody floras.

As biotechnology produces an unprecedented number of new plantvarieties, automated transplant production systems offer the means for their large-scale introduction via a rapid, efficient and economic method.

Large areas of crops are now grown under water-stressed conditions on non-irrigated and and under limited irrigation in semi-arid and arid regions.

The book entitled Designing Agricultural Research focused on the conducting various field and laboratory related research mainly used in agriculture.

Agricultural insect pests will destroy fruits, vegetables and the plants on which they develop.

In recent years slugs have become increasingly important, partly because several species are agricultural and horticultural pests and partly because theyhave proved to be useful experimental animals, particularly in the field of neurophysiology.

Science is essentially a descriptive and experimental device.

Contributed to by leading experts, this book looks at the history of coppice woodlands, their physical environment, the different management techniques used and their effects on the flora and fauna.

Research and publications on the potato crop have burgeoned since the first edition of this book was published in 1978.

Tea is a unique crop and, incidentally, a very interesting and attractive one.

When the first edition of this book was published in 1950, it predated the publication of the double-helical structure of DNA by three years.

Saving Our Planet analyses the changes (both positive and negative) that have occurred in the environment in the past two decades.

The study of solute transport in plants dates back to the beginnings of experimental plant physiology, but has its origins in the much earlier interests of humankind in agriculture.

The Monograph deals with the conception, planning, implementation, results and conclusions of the International Witches' Broom Project (IWBP), which was set up in 1985 with the aim of producing an economic management system for witches' broom disease of cocoa.

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Increasing awareness of the irreversible and long-lasting impacts of deterioration and pollution of soils and sediments has had an important influence on environmental policies and research in the last decade.

Towards the Balance and Management of the Carbon Budget of the Biosphere The current state of misunderstanding of the global C cycle and our failure to resolve an issue that has been debated for 100 years (Jones and Henderson-Sellers, 1990) speaks loudly about the limitations of modem science when faced with the complexity of the biosphere.

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