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.
In the wake of urbanization and technological advances, public green spaces within cities are disappearing and people are spending more time with electronic devices than with nature.
This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on elucidation and augmentation of the genome of Brassica juncea, one of the leading oilseed crops of the world, popularly called as brown mustard, Indian mustard, Chinese mustard, or Oriental mustard.
This book focuses on innovations in agriculture that is aimed at eliminating global hunger and poverty and promoting sustainable development of global agriculture.
Written from the expertise of an agricultural engineering background, this exciting new book presents the most useful numerical methods and their complete program listings.
Bringing together international expertise in rabbit production, topics covered in this fully updated volume include digestive physiology, feed formulation and product quality, as well as feeding strategies, feed processing, feed management around weaning and the relationship between nutrition and intestinal health.
Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm.
This book is based on hard scientific research, most of which has been conducted outside of the United States, where food production lobbies have fought hard against this kind of research.
In diesem essential stellen die Autorinnen den baubegleitenden Bodenschutz als ein wirksames Instrument zur Vermeidung und Verhinderung von Bodenschäden auf Baustellen vor.
Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation.
Whether you live in the city or the country, and whether your dog is little or large, Dogs in Jumpers is filled with knitting patterns to keep your dog warm this winter.
Extrait : "Les anciens avaient reconnu l'existence de l'air, et ils soupçonnaient son importance, puisqu'ils l'avaient placé au nombre des éléments ; mais ce n'est que dans les temps modernes, et même assez rapprochés de nous, que les savants ont pu spécifier ses propriétés, puis sa nature complexe, et enfin le rôle immense qu'il joue dans la vie des êtres organisés (végétaux et animaux).
Multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly depicts how grief can tip the family balance head over heels in this beautifully written novel about change and hope through adversity.
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week'A delightful and entertaining memoir' Woman and HomeWhen Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter.
Extrait : "Au milieu des efforts incessants qui se produisent sur tous les points de 'Europe pour découvrir de nouveaux éléments de richesse ; quand on considère l'activité, l'intelligence avec lesquelles mille agents artificiels sont mis en mouvement pour décupler les forces motrices et les agents producteurs, il n'est rien d'aussi pénible que de voir une vaste contrée, à laquelle le ciel a prodigué les faveurs d'un climat chaud et d'une terre féconde.
Wines are generally defined in one of three ways: by their country or region of origin, by their colour (red, white, pink) or by their style (still, sparkling, fortified).
White Gold: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1896 - 1906, is a tale of humanity and the natural order working together in the midst of greed and ignorance.
El municipio de Autlán de Navarro (también conocido como Autlán de la Grana) guarda una importante historia de producción y comercio de la grana cochinilla desde el siglo XVI.
A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir.
In diesem essential beschreibt Jan-Uwe Schmidt, wie durch Kiebitzinseln nicht nur dem Kiebitz geholfen wird, sondern auch andere Tier- und Pflanzenarten profitieren können.
Many pet owners consider vet visits to be quite stressful and traumatic, but there is an emerging alternative that can dramatically improve those experiences for everyone.
Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a swarm two years later.
Many pet owners consider vet visits to be quite stressful and traumatic, but there is an emerging alternative that can dramatically improve those experiences for everyone.
