Botany category: 1702 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Molecular Methods of Plant Analysis Concept of the Series The powerful recombinant DNA technology and related developments have had an enormous impact on molecular biology. Any treatment of plant analy sis must make use of these new methods. Developments have been so fast and the methods so powerful...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Algae presents a viable biofuel alternative because the production of algae for fuel, unlike other agro-based biofuels, does not compete with food production. This book covers algae-based biofuel options and discusses the design and economic viability of algal bioenergy co-production concepts.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and livelihood contributions of indigenous vegetables in urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. There has been growing research and policy effort...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
The aim of the book is to introduce the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of robotics, mechatronics and automation in agriculture in order to summarize and review the improvements in the methodologies in agricultural robotics.
Advances made in the past decades are described, including...
Tropical Tree Physiology
Adaptations and Responses in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book presents the latest information on tropical tree physiology, making it a valuable research tool for a wide variety of researchers. It is also of general interest to ecologists (e.g. Ecological Society of America; > 3000 or 4000 members at annual meeting), physiologists (e.g. American...
Forest Tree Breeding in Europe
Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Forest tree breeding has been ongoing for more than 70 years across Europe. It has successfully generated improved varieties for the major economical forest tree species. They are part of the present European forestry landscape and largely contribute to intensive wood production and other forest activities....
Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America
Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Dictionary of South American Trees provides a single-source reference for botanists, biologists, ecologists, and climatologists on the many native trees in South America. The index lets readers find a tree in four languages, by its common name, or abbreviation, followed by taxonomy that includes common...
Zinc in Soils and Plants
Proceedings of the International Symposium on ‘Zinc in Soils and Plants’ held at The University of Western Australia, 27–28 September, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the International Symposium on `Zinc in Soils and Plants', held at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, 27--28 September 1993
Studies in Oat Evolution
A Man's Life with Avena
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The book is based on the author's life time experience in exploring and researching the genus Avena. It describes some great events in oat research and minor stories along the way. It will be of interest and value to all those working with oats and to students and scientists of crop evolution, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community. To catch up with the fierce pace of growth in all the sectors of development, ensuring uninhibited availability of food resources is a prime agenda....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the heart of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Microbial toxins are secondary metabolites that accumulate in the organism and, to a large extent, are metabolically inactive towards the organism that produces them. The discovery of penicillin, a secondary metabolite of Penicillium notatum West (= P. chrysogenum Thom), in 1929 marked a milestone...
Engineering Interventions in Sustainable Trickle Irrigation
Irrigation Requirements and Uniformity, Fertigation, and Crop Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Improving agricultural water use efficiency (WUE) is vitally important in many parts of the world due to the decreasing availability of water resources and the increasing competition for water between different users. Micro irrigation is an effective tool for conserving water resources. Studies have...
by Gideon Ladizinsky, Shahal Abbo
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The study of origin and domestication of legumes described in this book emerged when it became apparent that while this kind of information is adequate for cereals, the pulses lagged behind. At the end of the 1960s the senior author initiated a study on the chickpea's wild relatives followed...