A thorough, critical, and up-to-date look at precision farming around the worldIn most developing countries, farming is the best safety net against hunger and keeping production costs under control without sacrificing crop yield is essential for survival.
The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops.
Effects of Climate Change on Forests: An Evidence-Based Primer for Sustainable Management of Temperate and Mediterranean Forests presents concepts, case studies and the application of theories about forest management under climate change.
Volume III of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on agriculture; food security; vegetation; phenology; rangelands; soils; and global biomass modeling, mapping, and monitoring using multi-sensor remote sensing.
Forest Fungi: Biodiversity, Conservation, Mycoforestry and Biotechnology explores sustainable option aspects of forest fungal research, from the selection of hosting plants, isolation, identification, fermentation, identification of secondary metabolites, omics-tools for better understanding the plant-fungus Interactions.
This volume aims to be a comprehensive guide to the field of rice molecular biology, encompassing both time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art methodologies.
This volume aims to be a comprehensive guide to the field of rice molecular biology, encompassing both time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art methodologies.
Forest Fungi: Biodiversity, Conservation, Mycoforestry and Biotechnology explores sustainable option aspects of forest fungal research, from the selection of hosting plants, isolation, identification, fermentation, identification of secondary metabolites, omics-tools for better understanding the plant-fungus Interactions.
This volume provides the first discussion of orchid protcorm and propagation, detailing genome editing research and offers orchid conservation and ecology.
This volume provides the first discussion of orchid protcorm and propagation, detailing genome editing research and offers orchid conservation and ecology.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective.
This single volume explores the theoretical and the practical aspects of crop physiological processes around the world The marked decrease over the past century in the land available for crop production has brought about mounting pressure to increase crop yields, especially in developing nations.
This book provides simultaneously, a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of climate change issues in Morocco and proposes levers of action and innovative practices to be used to strengthen the resilience and adaptation strategies.
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the most destructive agricultural pests in the world, eating their way through acres and acres of citrus and other fruits at an alarming rate and forcing food and agriculture agencies to spend millions of dollars in control and management measures.
This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.
Historically, research on the methods and amounts of trace element application to agriculture soils for correcting plant deficiencies has received major attention.
Plant Stress Tolerance: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies, Volume One provides effective ways for organizing precision and sustainable agriculture.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge biotechnological approaches for enhancing plant secondary metabolites to address abiotic stress, offering valuable insights into the future of utilizing plants for medicinal and industrial purposes.
Written in simple language with relevant examples, this illustrative introductory book presents best practices in experimental design and simple data analysis.
Diseases of Bivalves: Historical and Current Perspectives is a novel reference covering all known diseases of cultured and fished bivalve mollusks from around the world.
Innovative Food Processing and Packaging Technologies presents updates about some innovative technologies, such as pulsed electric fields, ultraviolet, and radio frequency, but also highlights the research needs for the newest technologies, such as cold plasma.
The book presents updated information on the cryopreservation of semen, embryos, germ cells and ovarian follicles of neotropical fish from South America.
