Agriculture and farming

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability.

Microbes are ubiquitous in nature.

Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing for Zinc Biofortification of Rice provides the first single-volume, comprehensive resource on genetic engineering approaches, including novel genome editing techniques, that are carried out in rice, a staple crop for much of the world's population.

Agricultural production is highly dependent on weather, climate and water availability and is adversely affected by the weather and climate-related disasters.

Combining insights from observation, experimentation, and theory, The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species offers a broad overview of species as dynamic entities that arise, have unique evolutionary histories, and ultimately go extinct.

Soil, a precious natural resource bestows its benefits to the entire biotic entity of the globe.

This book examines solar technologies, describes their properties, and evaluates the technological potential of each.

Food is a means of life.

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Animals including humans are highly dependent on plants to provide many different nutrients including iron in a useable form.

Land degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem.

SEAFOOD AND AQUACULTURE MARKETING HANDBOOK Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic animals and plants, and other seafood business continue to grow rapidly around the world.

This fourth volume of this 4-volume set discusses the key diseases, typical symptoms, and management strategies of several economically important plants.

This book offers a broad and global level description of the current status of wastewater use in agriculture and then brings the readers to various places in the MENA Region and Europe to explain how some countries and regions have addressed the challenges during implementation.

Explore the benefits of and necessity for sustainable agriculture!

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.

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide.

This book explores the transformative potential of machine learning (ML) technologies in agriculture.

The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the the First International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Ag- culture (CCTA 2007), in Wuyishan, China, 2007.

Dictionary of Agriculture is one of the capsulated and latest updated vocabularies of modern agriculture providing information on most relevant terms, definitions, glossaries, idioms, proverb, meaning, and important techniques.

This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

Plant-microbe interaction is a powerful and promising link to mitigate the various kinds of stresses like drought, salinity, heavy metals, and pathogenic effects.

Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man's ecological destruction in an industrial framework.

The Structure and Function of Muscle, Second Edition, Volume III: Physiology and Biochemistry presents the physiology and biochemistry of muscle.

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.

Losses of forests and their insect inhabitants are a major global conservation concern, spanning tropical and temperate forest regions throughout the world.

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon.

The coastal tropics comprise some of the most sensitive and yet the most understudied ecosystems in the world.

Learn to raise goats and start reaping the benefits of owning these fun and useful animalsRaising goats is a major part of human life (and survival) around the world.

Parasitic Plants in African Agriculture brings together for the first time in a single volume, the ecology, biology, damage, and control of all groups of African parasitic plants including both the relatively few parasites introduced to the continent as well as those native parasites that have spread from within Africa.

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.

Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases presents basic information about viral-caused and viral-like diseases in many cultivated crops.

This volume, with contributions from leading international experts, reports on the need to produce high quality food whilst satisfying environmental concerns.

This book presents deliberations on molecular and genomic mechanisms underlying the interactions of crop plants to the abiotic stresses caused by heat, cold, drought, flooding, submergence, salinity, acidity, etc.

The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of hydrology, environmental engineering, agricultural engineering, earth sciences, and watershed and range sciences, as well as to those engaged in water resources planning, development and management in arid and semi-arid areas.

This book introduces the reader to synthetic or artificial seeds, which refer to alginate encapsulated somatic embryos, vegetative buds or any other micropropagules that can be used as seeds and converted into plantlets after propagating under in vitro or in vivo conditions.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

With the advancement of science and technology agricultural sector also adopted improved technology and chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides.

Soil Fertility Evaluation and Control presents the theoretical background for practical applications of scientific work on soil fertility.

This book had its beginnings about thirty-five years ago, when I migrated to Australia from Canada, and began a doctoral study concerning the role of allelopathy in forests of the eucalypt known in Australia as mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans), under the supervision of Dr Kingsley Rowan and the late Dr David Ashton.

Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental biologists and fisheries scientists.

This book discusses the natural classification and biosystematics of Triticeae, and presents the most significant findings of comprehensive studies on the Triticeae, an important tribe in the grass family (Poaceae) that includes major crops such as wheat, barley, rye and triticale, as well as various forage crops found in different genera.

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Volume 72 contains four outstanding reviews detailing advances in the plant and environmental soil sciences.

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

This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam - countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict.

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.