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  • Peatland Forestry Peatland Forestry
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    Peatland Forestry

    Peatlands (or mires) cover at least 550 million ha globally, of which the greater part is situated between 50° and 70° N. Although the majority of peatlands are not used for human needs, there are large areas where agriculture,...
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  • Microbial Strategies for Crop Improvement Microbial Strategies for Crop Improvement
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    Microbial Strategies for Crop Improvement

    With an ever-increasing human population, the demand placed upon the agriculture sector to supply more food is one of the greatest challenges for the agrarian community. In order to meet this challenge, environmentally...
    $270.00

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  • Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems
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    Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems

    Temperate forests cover large areas of Europe and perform a number of important functions such as the regulation of energy and matter, production of wood and other resources, and conservation of biodiversity and habitats; they also have special...
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  • Old-Growth Forests Old-Growth Forests
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    Old-Growth Forests

    Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests. But research in the last two decades has yielded results that challenge the...
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  • Microbial Siderophores Microbial Siderophores
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    Microbial Siderophores

    In response to low iron availability in the environment most microorganisms synthesize iron chelators, called siderophores. Bacteria and fungi produce a broad range of structurally diverse siderophores, all of which show a very...
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  • Soil Pollution Soil Pollution
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    Soil Pollution

    Despite having been published about two years ago for the first time, the continuous demand for this book encouraged me to prepare this revised and enlarged edition. Many parts of the text have been rewritten, type errors...
    $227.00

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  • Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems
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    Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

    This book presents a comprehensive overview of nutrient cycling processes and their importance for plant growth and ecosystem sustainability. The book combines fundamental scientific studies and devised practical approaches. It...
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  • The Tree Habit in Land Plants The Tree Habit in Land Plants
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    The Tree Habit in Land Plants

    The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and...
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  • The Awakening Desert The Awakening Desert
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    The Awakening Desert

    Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel. Evenari takes us...
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  • Tropical Forest Seed Tropical Forest Seed
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    Tropical Forest Seed

    Seed Collection.- Seed Processing.- Seed Storage.- Seed Dormancy and Presowing Treatment.- Sowing, Germination and Seedling Establishment.- Seed Testing.- Seed Supply and Distribution.
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  • Harvesting Operations in the Tropics Harvesting Operations in the Tropics
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    Harvesting Operations in the Tropics

    This book brings together information on harvest methods, system productivity, and methods for conducting safe, efficient, and environmentally acceptable operations in tropical forests. It highlights the challenges of harvest...
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  • Insecticides Design Using Advanced Technologies Insecticides Design Using Advanced Technologies
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    Insecticides Design Using Advanced Technologies

    Among the highlights of this book are the use of nanotechnology to increase potency of available insecticides, the use of genetic engineering techniques for controlling insect pests, the development of novel insecticides that...
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  • Comparative Epidemiology of Plant Diseases Comparative Epidemiology of Plant Diseases
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    Comparative Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

    Comparison is a powerful cognitive research tool in science since it does "across studies" to evaluate similarities and differences, e.g. across taxa or diseases. This book deals with comparative research on plant disease...
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  • Water Resources Quality Water Resources Quality
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    Water Resources Quality

    Water is vital for the life and health of people and ecosystems, and is a basic condition for the development of countries. Water resources, and the related ecosystems which are sustained by water, are under threat from...
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  • Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants
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    Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants

    Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical...
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  • The Eggplant Genome The Eggplant Genome
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    The Eggplant Genome

    The book discusses the importance of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) as a crop, highlighting the potential for eggplant to serve as a model for understanding several evolutionary and taxonomic questions. It also explores the genomic make-up, in...
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  • Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33
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    Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33

    This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is...
    $184.00

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  • Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32
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    Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 32

    This book summarise advanced knowledge and methods to recycle waste and fertilise soils in agriculture. In the near future, waste recycling will no longer be an option because natural resources become rare and costly, urbanisation is blooming and...
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  • Nanoscience for Sustainable Agriculture Nanoscience for Sustainable Agriculture
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    Nanoscience for Sustainable Agriculture

    This book discusses the ability of nanomaterials to protect crop-plant and animal health, increase production, and enhance the quality of food and other agricultural products. It explores the use of targeted delivery and slow- release agrochemicals to...
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  • The Ocimum Genome The Ocimum Genome
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    The Ocimum Genome

    This book provides an overview of the Ocimum genus from its genetic diversity to genome sequences, metabolites and their therapeutic utilities. Tulasi, Ocimum tenuiflorum, as a member of the family Lamiaceae, is a sacred plant in India. The plants of...
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  • The Castor Bean Genome The Castor Bean Genome
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    The Castor Bean Genome

    This book addresses various aspects of the current castor bean research, including genetics, biotechnology, comparative genomics, and more specific topics such as oil metabolism and the ricin toxin. It also presents the whole genome sequencing of the...
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  • The Capsicum Genome The Capsicum Genome
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    The Capsicum Genome

    This book contains complete information on Capsicum genetic resources, diversity, evolution, history and advances in capsicum improvement from classical breeding to whole genome sequencing, genomics, databases and its impact on next generation pepper...
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  • Agricultural Nanobiotechnology Agricultural Nanobiotechnology
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    Agricultural Nanobiotechnology

    Nanobiotechnology in agriculture is a new knowledge area that offers novel possibilities to achieve high productivity levels at manageable costs during the production and merchandising of crops. This book shows us how we can use the cutting-edge...
    $281.00

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  • Nutritional Quality Improvement in Plants Nutritional Quality Improvement in Plants
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    Nutritional Quality Improvement in Plants

    This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of recent advances and remaining challenges in improving nutritional quality and/or avoiding the accumulation of undesirable substances in plants using a variety of strategies based on modern...
    $270.00

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  • North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1 North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1
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    North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1

    The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops. These wild and weedy cousins are valuable as a resource for adapting our food,...
    $285.00

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  • Biotechnologies of Crop Improvement, Volume 3 Biotechnologies of Crop Improvement, Volume 3
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    Biotechnologies of Crop Improvement, Volume 3

    During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants. Biotechnology increasingly plays a role in the creation,...
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  • Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 31 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 31
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    Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 31

    This book presents advanced ecological techniques for crop cultivation and the chapters are arranged into four sections, namely general aspects, weeds, fungi, worms and microbes.  Biocontrol is an ecological method of controlling...
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  • Agro-Environmental Sustainability Agro-Environmental Sustainability
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    Agro-Environmental Sustainability

    This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security. Advances in microbial technologies are explored in chapters dealing with topics such as carbon sequestration, soil...
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  • The Olive Tree Genome The Olive Tree Genome
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    The Olive Tree Genome

    This book provides an introduction to the genetics, genomics, and breeding of the olive tree, a multi-functional long-lived crop plant that is relevant not only for culinary olive and oil production, but also for shaping the landscape and history of many...
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  • Bioremediation of Salt Affected Soils Bioremediation of Salt Affected Soils
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    Bioremediation of Salt Affected Soils

    This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils. Innovative technologies in managing marginal salt affected lands merit immediate attention in the...
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  • Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3 Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3
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    Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3

    This book is the third volume on Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture, published in the Sustainable Agriculture Reviews series. In this book we present ten chapters describing the synthesis and application of nanomaterials for health, food,...
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  • The Sorghum Genome The Sorghum Genome
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    The Sorghum Genome

    This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics. It particularly focuses on the tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis, public and private genomic resources and how all this information is leading to direct...
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  • Sensors for Everyday Life Sensors for Everyday Life
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    Sensors for Everyday Life

    This book offers an up-to-date overview of the concepts, modeling, technical and technological details and practical applications of different types of sensors, and discusses the trends of next generation of sensors and systems for environmental and food...
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  • Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment
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    Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment

    This book describes the vast variety of xenobiotics, such as pesticides, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, agrochemicals and other pollutants, their interactions with the soil environment, and the currently available strategies and techniques for...
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  • Microbe-Induced Degradation of Pesticides Microbe-Induced Degradation of Pesticides
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    Microbe-Induced Degradation of Pesticides

    This book focuses on the microbial degradation of endosulfan, lindane, chlorophenols, organochlorine, aldrin, dieldrin, isoproturon and atrazine, etc. which are commonly used in crop fields to kill the pests. Further, it illustrates the role of...
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  • Competitiveness of Global Agriculture Competitiveness of Global Agriculture
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    Competitiveness of Global Agriculture

    The book combines food security and agricultural competitiveness issues and treat them together. It starts with definitions and evolution of both concepts, followed by reviews on global and regional food security challenges. The book identifies global...
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  • Current Research Topics in Plant Virology Current Research Topics in Plant Virology
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    Current Research Topics in Plant Virology

    Topics covered in this book include RNA silencing and its suppression in plant virus infection, virus replication mechanisms, the association of cellular membranes with virus replication and movement, plant genetic resistance to viruses, viral...
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  • The Kiwifruit Genome The Kiwifruit Genome
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    The Kiwifruit Genome

    This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential...
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