Agriculture & Farming

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...

This book presents the biology, culture techniques, research and development, and future of the fishery of some of the most important bivalve mollu...

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...

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists, and also to co...

This PhD looks at Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Baten Bay, Indonesia. Recommendations are given on how environmental information and stakeh...

Using R for Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries has evolved and been adapted from an earlier book by the same author and provides a det...

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...

Artemia is widely used in both life-sciences research and aquaculture. Although there are over 4000 references regarding Artemia, the literature is...

2023 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

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 two-volume reference presents a series of review and research articles on advances in computing, marine physics, and remote sensing and addres...

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...

2021 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

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...

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problem...

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...

Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline. Unfortunately, wides...

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...

Fish constitute an important natural renewable resource and any reduction in their ability to propagate as a result of human interference may have ...

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

From Basic Fundamentals to Advanced Design ApplicationsA culmination of the authors more than 20 years of research efforts, academic papers, and le...

Research in modern experimental and theoretical population genetics has been strengthened by advances in molecular techniques for the analysis of g...