Agriculture category: 3369 books
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Release Date: December 21, 2015
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Release Date: December 21, 2015
Date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. (Arecales: Arecaceae), is an important palm species cultivated in the arid regions of the world since pre-historic times and traditionally associated with the life and culture of the people in the Middle-East and North Africa which are the pre-dominant date palm growing...
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Release Date: January 11, 2013
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Release Date: January 11, 2013
The future of agriculture greatly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. The application of microorganisms, such as the diverse bacterial species of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB), represents an ecologically and economically sustainable...
Sustainable Goat Production in Adverse Environments: Volume II
Local Goat Breeds
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book covers more than 40 indigenous goat breeds and several ecotypes around the globe and describes genotypic and phenotype traits related to species adaptation to harsh environments and climate change. It also addresses sustainable global farming of local goat breeds in different production...
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Release Date: October 24, 2014
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Release Date: October 24, 2014
This book is part of the Plant Pathology in the 21st Century Series, started in the occasion of the IX International Congress of Plant Pathology, Torino, 2008.
In conjuction with the Xth International Congress of Plant Pathology, held in Beijing in August 2013.
Although deriving...
Atmospheric Methane
Its Role in the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Methane is an important greenhouse gas that can cause global warming. The present concentrations of methane are nearly three times higher than several hundred years ago. Today, more than 60% of the atmospheric methane comes from human activities, including rice agriculture, coal mining, natural gas...
Soil Pollution
Processes and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The soil is the medium through which pollutants originating from human activities, both in agriculture and industry, move from the land surfaces to groundwater. Polluting substances are subject to complex physical, chemical and biological transformations during their movement through the soil. Their...
Dynamics and Diversity
Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies...
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Release Date: October 12, 2017
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Release Date: October 12, 2017
Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in the world. Wheat and barley cultivation has experienced changes in practices due to factors such as methods of conservation agriculture, cropping systems, wheat varieties, changes in weather patterns, and international...
by Robert L. Zimdahl
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Weed scientists are confident of increasing production through agricultural technology, including herbicides, but do not must ask if the moral obligation to feed people is sufficient justification for the benefits and harms achieved. A continuing, rigorous examination of the science’s goals that...
Plant-Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives
Volume 2: Microbial Interactions and Agro-Ecological Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book puts an updated account on functional aspects of multiphasic microbial interactions within and between plants and their ecosystem. Multipronged interaction in the soil microbial communities with the plants constitute a relay of mechanisms that make profound changes in plant and its micro-environment...
Transgenic Crop Plants
Volume 1: Principles and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Development of transgenic crop plants, their utilization for improved agriculture, health, ecology and environment and their socio-political impacts are currently important fields in education, research and industries and also of interest to policy makers, social activists and regulatory and funding...
Transgenic Crop Plants
Volume 2: Utilization and Biosafety
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Development of transgenic crop plants, their utilization for improved agriculture, health, ecology and environment and their socio-political impacts are currently important fields in education, research and industries and also of interest to policy makers, social activists and regulatory and funding...
Management of Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the Development of More Productive and Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Extended versions of papers presented at the Symposium on Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Sustainable Agriculture at the 15th Congress of Soil, Acapulco, Mexico, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Table 1. Global allocation of arable land between different com modities Globally, cereal cropping dominates cultivated land Commodities' Proportion of land area use (around 50% of total area, Table 1). The remain (%) ing arable land is used for production of oilseed, fibre, or food and cash crops....
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Release Date: September 30, 2013
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Release Date: September 30, 2013
This volume covers the high relevance of fungi for agriculture. It is a completely updated and revised second edition with fourteen excellent chapters by leading scientists in their fields and offers a comprehensive review of the latest achievements and developments.
Topics include: Food and...