Agricultural Science

A flexible, current, and comprehensive look at the biological, industry, and species approaches to Animal Science, complete with worldview informat...

Sequencing of the maize genome has opened up new opportunities in maize breeding, genetics and genomics research. This book highlights modern trend...

The health and profitability of grass-based livestock begins with the food they eat. In Managing Pasture, author Dale Strickler guides farmers and ...

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L) is an anadromous species contributing to major fishery catches and comprising a significant part of the aquacultur...

Development of transgenic crop plants, their utilization for improved agriculture, health, ecology and environment and their socio-political impact...

Energy in Agroecosystems: A Tool for Assessing Sustainability is the first book on energy analysis that is up-to-date and specifically dedicated to...

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles. Recent phylogenetic (DNA-based) reorganization of higher plants has ...

This book is a jewel, its many facets revealing the full range of advanced technical and technological data and innovative strategies in nitrogen m...

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospect...

Sometimes called 'black gold,' Iowa's deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world's grassl...

This detailed volume describes the most recent methodology for buckwheat research. Buckwheat serves as a promising functional food source containin...

This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable, durable, beside-the-animal ...

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mu...

Intensive and extensive cultivation of grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) leads to serious pest problem in vineyards in major grape growing areas of the wo...

Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both insid...

The global population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Feeding this growing population more sustainably is a huge challenge facing agricultu...

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day. This waste is rich in water, nutrients, energy and organic compounds. Yet waste is not being m...

This work, comprising two volumes, reviews recent advances in plant developmental biology and explores the possibility of their biotechnological ap...

The search for new strategies of pest control with safer molecules is currently of great importance and interest. Microbe-mediated biological crop ...

This book offers effective, low-cost and user-friendly protocols for the pre-field selection of salt-tolerant mutants in cereal crops. It presents ...

This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environm...

This book contains 9 invited keynote and 12 theme lectures presented at the 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14ECEE) held in Ohr...

This book contains 9 invited keynote and 12 theme lectures presented at the 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14ECEE) held in Ohr...

Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections ...

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the authored book categoryIn recent years, conflicts between ecological conservation an...

This book captures how industrial crops can be used in conventional agriculture and greener biopharming for pharmaceutical industries. Pharmaceutic...

Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant resins to maintain their colonies. The chemical components...

Waste Management for Sustainable and Restored Agricultural Soil provides a holistic approach to various mechanisms of waste management for plant nu...

The agricultural sector remains under increasing pressure to reduce its environmental impact and consequent contribution to climate change, whilst ...

There have been several advancements made in high-throughput protein technologies creating immense possibilities for studying proteomics on a large...

There have been several advancements made in high-throughput protein technologies creating immense possibilities for studying proteomics on a large...

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new v...

Advances in Macrofungi: Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnology discusses the diversity and ecology of edible, toxic, medicinal and mycorrhizal macrof...

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on bone health in poultry.The first chapter reviews the literature on genetic mappin...

This book explores how climate change affects households that rely on shifting cultivation and how to assess their vulnerability. This study looks ...

This book discusses the smallholder tea economy and regional development opportunities in India. It first gives a conceptual overview of Plantation...

I really don't think this book will ever be surpassed as the 'go-to' clinical ruminant reference for undergraduates, recent grads and vets in mixed...

The chapters of the book have been selected and arranged in such a manner as to lead the students through the entire gamut of rainfed agriculture s...

Agroecology theory is not endless. A point is reached where the central elements become visible, equations distill, and a conceptual apex is reache...

Formally established by the EPA nearly 15 years ago, the concept of green chemistry is beginning to come of age. Although several books cover green...

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new v...

Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentall...