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  • Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 4 Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 4
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    Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 4

    Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality. Conventional plant breeding methods aiming at the...
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  • Innovations in Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future Innovations in Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future
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    Innovations in Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future

    This contributed volume compiles the latest improvements in the field of biotechnology. It focuses on topics that comprises industrial, environment, agricultural and medical related issues to technology and biological studies and exhibits the correlation...
    $324.00

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  • Salicylic Acid - A Versatile Plant Growth Regulator Salicylic Acid - A Versatile Plant Growth Regulator
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    Salicylic Acid - A Versatile Plant Growth Regulator

    Phytohormones are known to affect the growth and development of plant directly as well as indirectly. Salicylic acid (SA) is a phenolic phytohormone which induces systemic resistance in plants and also regulates defence responses. The derivatives of SA...
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  • Wheat Landraces Wheat Landraces
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    Wheat Landraces

    Landraces possess a very large genetic base in population structure and are dynamic populations of cultivated plants with historical origin, distinct identity, and without any formal crop improvement. They are often genetically diverse, locally adapted,...
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  • The Coconut Genome The Coconut Genome
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    The Coconut Genome

    This book serves as the first comprehensive compilation describing the breeding strategies and genetics and genomics of the coconut palm. It describes gene evolution of economically important traits such as oil biosynthesis, aroma and fragrance,...
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  • Cash Crops Cash Crops
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    Cash Crops

    Cash crops are grown and sold for monetary gain and not necessarily for sustenance. They include coffee, tea, coconut, cotton, jute, groundnut, castor, linseed, cocoa, rubber, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, potato, wheat, corn and teff.  While some...
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  • The Date Palm Genome, Vol. 2 The Date Palm Genome, Vol. 2
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    The Date Palm Genome, Vol. 2

    This book is the first comprehensive assemblage of contemporary knowledge relevant to genomics and other omics in date palm. Volume 2 consists of 11 chapters. Part I, Nutritional and Pharmaceuticals Properties, covers...
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  • High-Throughput Crop Phenotyping High-Throughput Crop Phenotyping
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    High-Throughput Crop Phenotyping

    This book provides an overview of the innovations in crop phenotyping using emerging technologies, i.e., high-throughput crop phenotyping technology, including its concept, importance, breakthrough and applications in different crops and environments...
    $375.00

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  • Soil Nitrogen Ecology Soil Nitrogen Ecology
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    Soil Nitrogen Ecology

    This book highlights the latest discoveries about the nitrogen cycle in the soil. It introduces the concept of nitrogen fixation and covers important aspects of nitrogen in soil and ecology such as its distribution and occurrence, soil microflora and...
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  • Fundamentals of Agricultural and Field Robotics Fundamentals of Agricultural and Field Robotics
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    Fundamentals of Agricultural and Field Robotics

    Over the past century, mechanization has been an important means for optimizing resource utilization, improving worker health and safety and reducing labor requirements in farming while increasing productivity and quality of 4F (Food, Fuel, Fiber, Feed)...
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  • Biosensors in Agriculture Biosensors in Agriculture
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    Biosensors in Agriculture

    This book reviews the application of nanosensors in food and agriculture. Nanotechnology has the potential to become transformative technology that will impact almost all sectors. Tools like nanosensors, which detect specific molecular interactions, can...
    $402.00

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  • Agricultural Internet of Things Agricultural Internet of Things
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    Agricultural Internet of Things

    Internet of things (IoT) is a new type of network that combines communication technology, expanded applications, and physical devices. Among them, agriculture is one of the most important areas in the application of the IoT technology, which has its...
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  • Endophytes Endophytes
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    Endophytes

    The challenges to meet the food requirement of the burgeoning population and stabilized productivity of agriculture lands can only be met by a second green revolution. After steadily declining for over a decade hunger is on the rise again, affecting...
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  • Cotton Precision Breeding Cotton Precision Breeding
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    Cotton Precision Breeding

    Cotton, the most important natural fiber crop, has been improved by conventional breeding-largely through planned hybridization of different cotton genotypes, since the discovery of Mendelian genetics. All these efforts resulted in the development of...
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  • Potato Breeding Potato Breeding
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    Potato Breeding

    The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.2 million hectares of land, in 163 countries, giving a global average yield...
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  • Tree Crops Tree Crops
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    Tree Crops

    This book paints a wide canvas of the immense global economic potential of ten most important cash generating crops spread over Asia, Africa and Latin America, namely, Arecanut, Cashew Nut, Coconut, Cinchona, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Oil Palm, Rubber and...
    $442.00

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  • Plant Defence Plant Defence
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    Plant Defence

    Insects, pests and weeds are responsible for substantial loss of crops and reduced food supplies, poorer quality of agricultural products, economic hardship for growers and processor. Generally, chemical control methods are neither always economical nor...
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  • Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation
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    Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation

    I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to. I hope for an exchange of ideas about agriculture's moral dilemmas. I...
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  • The Mango Genome The Mango Genome
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    The Mango Genome

    This book represents the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on botany; genetic resources; genetic diversity analysis; classical genetics & traditional breeding; in vitro culture & genetic transformation; detailed information...
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  • Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2 Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2
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    Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2

    Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality. Conventional plant breeding methods aiming at the...
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  • Decision Support Systems for Weed Management Decision Support Systems for Weed Management
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    Decision Support Systems for Weed Management

    Weed management Decision Support Systems (DSS) are increasingly important computer-based tools for modern agriculture. Nowadays, extensive agriculture has become highly dependent on external inputs and both economic costs, as well the negative...
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  • Soil Health Soil Health
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    Soil Health

    This book gathers the latest insights into soil health and its sustainability, providing an up-to-date overview of the various aspects of soil quality and fertility management, e.g., plant-microbe interactions to maintain soil health; and the use of...
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  • Applications of Nanotechnology for Green Synthesis Applications of Nanotechnology for Green Synthesis
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    Applications of Nanotechnology for Green Synthesis

    Traditional methods in synthetic chemistry produce chemical waste and byproducts, yield smaller desired products, and generate toxic chemical substances, but the past two centuries have seen consistent, greener improvements in organic synthesis and...
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  • Nanoagronomy Nanoagronomy
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    Nanoagronomy

    In this age of population explosion and depleting natural resources, this book offers new techniques to produce more from agricultural crops at a lower cost. The field of agronomy addresses this issue and interacts with the fields of agriculture, botany,...
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  • Ecosystem Services provided by agricultural areas Ecosystem Services provided by agricultural areas
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    Ecosystem Services provided by agricultural areas

    Ecosystem services (ES) can be defined as the components ofecosystems from which humans derive benefits, such as croppollination and climate regulation.In a bid to ensure that biodiversity is taken into account in publicand private decision-making, the...
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  • Suburban Chickens Suburban Chickens
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    Suburban Chickens

    Discover the joys and rewards of raising chickens in your backyard!Author Karen Harris used interviews with a half dozen experienced small-scale chicken farmers to create the ultimate "how-to" book for managing a backyard flock.A TRULY comprehensive...
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  • Crianza de caballos Crianza de caballos
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    Crianza de caballos

    Si desea aprender a criar caballos, siga leyendo...¿Siempre ha soñado con tener un caballo? Bueno, tener un caballo es una cosa que uno pensaría que es simple, hasta que lo mira más de cerca. Criar un caballo no es un trabajo para perezosos. Pero como...
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  • Homesteading en su patio trasero Homesteading en su patio trasero
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    Homesteading en su patio trasero

    ¿Cómo comía la gente antes de que las grandes corporaciones estuvieran a cargo de abastecer los supermercados?Es una pregunta compleja que muchas personas se están haciendo ahora más que nunca. Durante los últimos años, hemos visto algunas tendencias que...
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  • Japanese Beetles and Grubs Japanese Beetles and Grubs
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    Japanese Beetles and Grubs

    Japanese beetles arrived in America in 1916. Since then, the beetle has cut a destructive swath across a great portion of the United States.Japanese Beetles and Grubs: Trap, Spray, and Control Them is an indispensable guide for home gardeners, landscape...
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  • Regenerative Soil Microscopy Regenerative Soil Microscopy
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    Regenerative Soil Microscopy

    SEE THE WORLD WITH NEW EYESA highly visual guide to new methods & breakthroughs in bright field, dark field, manual lighting, & epifluorescence microscopy for examining & evaluating soil, compost, roots, leaves, plant sap, microbes,...
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  • The Observant Beekeeper The Observant Beekeeper
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    The Observant Beekeeper

    How can you inspect a hive without opening it? When you do open it, how do you interpret what you see? And how do unmanaged bees survive without our help?Truly seeing and understanding what is happening in a bee colony is the core skill for all...
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  • Living Farms Living Farms
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    Living Farms

    Designed as an accessible text on sustainable agriculture, this book contains information on community organization and participation, technologies for sustainability and the wider policy and service environment. The book looks at a variety of ways of...
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  • Alternative Irrigation Alternative Irrigation
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    Alternative Irrigation

    An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the...
    $116.00

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  • The Soil and Health The Soil and Health
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    The Soil and Health

    The Soil and Health, a classic of organic farming, is an essential introduction to organic gardening and farming."The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible." - Albert Howard.At the turn of the twentieth century, chemical...
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  • Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
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    Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    This collection reviews the wealth of research on ways to promote biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, focussing on the range of conservation, restoration and rewilding practices farmers and landowners can adopt.
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  • Developing circular agricultural production systems Developing circular agricultural production systems
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    Developing circular agricultural production systems

    This collection summarises the wealth of research on the ways of achieving circular agricultural production systems through using minimal inputs, closing nutrient loops, reducing emissions and reusing and valorising agricultural wastes.
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  • Sustainable Agriculture and Global Environmental Health Sustainable Agriculture and Global Environmental Health
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    Sustainable Agriculture and Global Environmental Health

    Presents advanced methods and modern technologies in agri-food sectors for improved environmental health and food security, prioritizing sustainable agriculture and global environment health. It explores the principles of environmental sustainability and...
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  • Sustainable Forest Resources Management Sustainable Forest Resources Management
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    Sustainable Forest Resources Management

    Details the issues of implicating sustainable forest management practices and highlights the aspects of forest resources, the importance of traditional knowledge, the need for conservation, the impact of climate change, and ecosystem services. Covers...
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  • New and Emerging Plant Viruses New and Emerging Plant Viruses
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    New and Emerging Plant Viruses

    Comprehensively covers plant viruses, focusing on their diversity and pathogenic expressions. Discusses hidden sources of plant viruses as well as undetermined plant virus sources. Sheds light on previously undiscovered plant viruses, bringing together...
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  • New Advances in Crop Disease Management New Advances in Crop Disease Management
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    New Advances in Crop Disease Management

    Overviews the diverse crop protection strategies emphasising the recent advances in crop protection approaches, fundamental concepts, principles, methodology, relationships, and benefits for crop protection and human health. Covers several disciplines...
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  • Microbiology of the Agricultural Sky Microbiology of the Agricultural Sky
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    Microbiology of the Agricultural Sky

    Overviews information and usefulness of microbes in agrarian sky to crops. Also details their general distribution, spread distance, and intercontinental migration of microbes. Covers topics like, aeolian dust microbes, role of aerial microbes in...
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