Agricultural science books

Topics covered in this book include RNA silencing and its suppression in plant virus infection, virus replication...  Read More >>

This book covers the most recent advances in all the topics with which researchers and professionals need to be...  Read More >>

The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt Columella, the much traveled Spanish-Roman writer...  Read More >>

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This volume summarizes our currentunderstanding of biological soil crusts (biocrusts), which are omnipresent indryland...  Read More >>

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maize, Cocos nucifera, Bixa orellana,Capsicum spp., Coffea spp., Musa spp., Pinus spp., and Arabidopsis thaliana....  Read More >>

Edward H. Faulkner startled the agricultural world - all of it, on six continents - when he published Plowman's...  Read More >>

Soil is the main source of nutrients for the growth of plants. Some of the nutrients obtained from the soil are...  Read More >>

Soil fertility is an integral part of agriculture and this book unravels the recent studies in this field. Key characteristics...  Read More >>

Underutilized crops have a great potential to alleviate hunger directly, through increasing food production in challenging...  Read More >>

This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide...  Read More >>

This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions...  Read More >>

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This book explores the importance of good nutrition in ensuring an adequate standard of welfare for farm animals....  Read More >>

This text provides an important overview of the contributions of edible insects to ecological sustainability, livelihoods,...  Read More >>

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In contrast to previous publications, this book consistently focuses on the biology of wine-associated microbes....  Read More >>

This book, Advances in Postharvest Technologies of Vegetable Crops, presents a selection of innovative postharvest...  Read More >>

Biofuel cultivation has been identified as a solution to growing energy use, and biomass power plants offer a rare...  Read More >>

This book extends current research on the political economy of modern China, with particular regard to agricultural...  Read More >>

Naturally occuring plant-microbe interactions facilitate the survival of plants under these stressful conditions.The...  Read More >>

It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation,...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the challenges of the short shelf-life of fruits and vegetables. Innovative packaging technologies...  Read More >>