Agricultural science

Advances in agri-food biotechnology

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This book presents biotechnological advances and approaches to improving the nutritional value of agri-foods. The respective chapters explore how biotechnology is being used to enhance food production, nutritional quality, food safety and food packaging, and to address postharve…

Phytobiomes: current insights and future vistas

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To satisfy the food demands of the global population, advanced technology based research is needed, that can extract the information from the plant metabolism and microbial gene pool and use it for improving plant health and productivity. Modern biotechnological tools have the a…

Advances in plant microbiome and sustainable agriculture: functional annotation and future challenges

by Yadav, Ajar Nath, Rastegari, Ali Asghar, Yadav, Neelam, Kour, Divjot

fromMicroorganisms for sustainability

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Microbes are ubiquitous in nature, and plant-microbe interactions are a key strategy for colonizing diverse habitats. The plant microbiome (epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric) plays an important role in plant growth and development and soil health. Further, rhizospheric soil…

Advances in plant microbiome and sustainable agriculture: diversity and biotechnological applications

fromMicroorganisms for sustainability

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Microbes are ubiquitous in nature, and plant-microbe interactions are a key strategy for colonizing diverse habitats. The plant microbiome (epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric) plays an important role in plant growth and development and soil health. Further, rhizospheric soil…

Regulatory issues in organic food safety in the Asia Pacific

by Goh, Bee Chen, Price, Rohan

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The book seeks to address the intersection of food organics and the emergence of a new contractualism between producers, distributors and consumers, and between nation states. Additionally, it seeks to cater to the needs of a discerning public concerned about how its own country…

Ecological and Practical Applications for Sustainable Agriculture

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Rampant industrialization, urbanization, and population growth have resulted in increased global environmental contamination. The productivity of agricultural soil is drastically deteriorated and requires a high dose of fertilizers to cultivate crops. To ensure food security, fa…

Ecological and practical applications for sustainable agriculture

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Rampant industrialization, urbanization, and population growth have resulted in increased global environmental contamination. The productivity of agricultural soil is drastically deteriorated and requires a high dose of fertilizers to cultivate crops. To ensure food security, fa…

Management of phytonematodes: recent advances and future challenges

by Ansari, Rizwan Ali, Rizvi, Rose, Mahmood, Irshad

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This book illustrates the currently available strategies for managing phytonematodes. It discusses the latest findings on plant-pathogen-microbiome interactions and their impacts on ecosystems, and provides extensive information on the application of microorganisms in the sustai…

Reproductive ecology of flowering plants: patterns and processes

by Shivanna, K. R., Tandon, Rajesh, Koul, Monika

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Sexual reproduction is the predominant mode of perpetuation for flowering plant species. Investigating the reproductive strategies of plants has grown to become a vast area of research and, in crop plants, covers events from flowering to fruit and seed development; in wild speci…

The political economy of uneven rural development: case of the nonfarm sector in Kerala, India

by Bordoloi, Sudarshana

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The book shows how class relations develop and is a consequence of capitalist development of the rural nonagricultural/nonfarm sector (RNFS)--seen as the dialectical relation between the forces and relations of production--as mediated by the state, which produces uneven social a…

Multidimensional economic assessment of Africa

by Wood, Jacob, Habimana, Olivier, Eastern Africa Business and Economic Watch, Kigali, Rwanda)

fromFrontiers in African business research

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This book is a useful resources for government policy analysts, academics, students of higher education and business practitioners interested in African economies and the key economic issues these economies are facing in 2020. In the face of weak governance and growth globally, …

Sustainable green chemical processes and their allied applications

fromNanotechnology in the Life Sciences

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Urbanization, industrialization, and unethical agricultural practices have considerably negative effects on the environment, flora, fauna, and the health and safety of humanity. Over the last decade, green chemistry research has focused on discovering and utilizing safer, more e…

Biogas technology

by Liu, Yi, Deng, Liangwei, Wenguo Wang

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This book focuses on agricultural waste treatment and renewable energy production from the perspective of anaerobic digestion. It covers topics on anaerobic digestion processes and practices in various types of biogas plant construction and management and systematically addresse…

The oil palm genome

by Ithnin, Maizura, Kushairi, Ahmad

fromCompendium of plant genomes

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This book compiles the fundamental advances resulting from of oil-palm genome and transcriptome sequencing, and describes the challenges faced and strategies applied in sequencing, assembling and annotating oil palm genome sequences. The availability of genome and transcriptome …

Organic Food Systems: Meeting the Needs of Southern Africa

by Auerbach, Raymond

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This book reports on long-term comparative organic farming systems' research trials carried out over the last 5 years in the Southern Cape of South Africa, as well as research into the successes and failures of the organic sector and the technical tools required for sustainable …

Nanoagronomy

by Javad, Sumera

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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, and economics. Nanotechn…

Sustainable agriculture reviews

by Lichtfouse, Eric

fromSustainable agriculture reviews

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This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

Food security and land use change under conditions of climatic variability: a multidimensional perspective

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This volume analyzes the global challenges of food security, land use changes, and climate change impacts on food production in order to recommend sustainable development policies, anticipate future food services and demands, and identify the economic benefits and trade-offs of …

Nanotechnology-based industrial applications of ionic liquids

by Inamuddin, Asiri, Abdullah M.

fromNanotechnology in the Life Sciences Ser

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Numerous solvents used in chemical processes have poisonous and unsafe properties that pose significant ecological concerns ranging from atmospheric emissions to the contamination of water effluents. To combat these ecological threats, over the course of the past two decades, th…