Agricultural Science

This book focuses on the complex and often contradictory relationships between agricultural production and markets. It examines the micro-macro lin...

This book locates the malignant causes behind the factors leading to farmers suicides in India. It argues that not only a combination of innovative...

This book is dedicated to the spiky little freshwater ruffian known better as the ruffe, pope, 'tommy ruffe' and other local names. A fascinating l...

Response of Field Crops to Abiotic Stress: Current Status and Future Prospects is a collection of useful scientific resources for students, researc...

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on problems and their management by select...

Emerging technologies in wastewater treatment plant is an ecological, profitable and natural technology designed to eliminate heavy metals, radionu...

Biofuels are a renewable source of energy used mainly for transportation. They link together food, energy and natural resources sectors, and involv...

This book is the first review of the scientific literature on the Africanized honey bee. The African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata (formerly...

Fluorescence of Living Plant Cells for Phytomedicine Preparations reveals how valuable medicinal compounds can be identified through the applicatio...

Weeds are plants existing at places and/or times at which they are considered undesirable by man. Thys, mans primary interest in weeds is in dingin...

This book discusses the photosynthesis for ecosystem models, in particular the strengths and limitations of four methods used for predicting photos...

These volumes, Cytolytic Lymphocytes and Complement: Effectors of the Immune System, originate from the realization that pathways of recognition an...

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which privat...

The discussion on arsenic in the environment is complex and must grasp the importance of very many, mostly unrelated works on individual aspects. T...

This new compilation focuses on 386 of the most commonly used pesticides recently registered by the EPA. The structural and molecular formulas are ...

Top-down approaches to pest management, relying on agrochemical inputs that can be scarce, expensive, ecologically toxic, or inaccessible, have rep...

Studies of Adjuvants involve many scientific fields from basic research of the chemistry, through investigations into physiological effects and env...

Studies of Adjuvants involve many scientific fields from basic research of the chemistry, through investigations into physiological effects and env...

This book attempts to provide to provide concise, critical, synthetic and up-to-date coverage of different aspects of plant disease management. The...

Edited by a recognized leader in the field, Herbicide-Resistant Crops is the first book to cover all of the issues related to the controversial top...

The importance of low temperature stress physiology research has become increasingly apparent in agriculture for productions of food, fibre and orn...

Zoo animals as a population are a diverse array of species from all around the globe. When managed in captivity, it is important that key aspects o...

Plant viruses are of considerable interest to the science of biology, and their study has contributed significantly to the elucidation of several m...

This book examines the anatomy and morphology of onion inflorescence. It is concerned with both the development of the individual seed and with the...

The 1983 International Stockmen's School Handbooks include more than 200 technical papers presented at this year's Stockmen's Schoolsponsored by Wi...

The purpose of this book is to provide a reference guide on principles and practices of cloning agricultural plants via in vitro techniques for sci...

This book is the outcome of a conference on 'Empirical Studies of Industrial Organization and Trade in the Food Industries' in Indianapolis. The co...

The plant mildews are one of the most important diseases on crop plants, and occur widely throughout the world causing huge losses. This unique boo...

A work which traces the development of US Government programmes designed to help migrant farm workers, showing how the programmes operate today and...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

This book provides state of the art description of various approaches, techniques and some basic fundamentals of bioremediation to manage a variety...

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and i...

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs. In recent decades, there has been increased appr...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options. This book addresses the c...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...

The organic products market is experiencing rapid growth. This surge can be attributed to consumers' perception of organic products as healthier op...