Agronomy & Crop Production

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.Theobroma cacao is an importan...

Maize is widely cultivated throughout the world due to its high-yield potential. The economic and nutritional value of maize grains is associated w...

Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but also natural leakage90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agr...

There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner. Transforming r...

Genomic selection (GS) is a promising tool in the field of breeding especially in the era where genomic data is becoming cheaper. The potential of ...

This book focuses on the menace of metal pollution and its impact on plants, particularly food grains, pulse and vegetable plants covering morpholo...

Why have so many approaches to farming and food policy failed in Sub-Saharan Africa? Because, argues William Moseley in this compelling analysis, o...

This book provides a general presentation of knowledge and methods in mathematical modelling and simulation of individual plants. The chapters main...

Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now...

In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of h...

This updated second edition textbook explains the different technologies of agronomy to achieve a more sustainable agriculture, for undergraduate a...

Nanoparticles Synthesis by Soil Microbes: Application in Plant Production and the Environment, a volume in the Plant and Soil Microbiome series, pr...

This book aims to present a comprehensive collection of information that combines improved soil and crop productivity, climate-based stress managem...

Guide to Plant Single-Cell Technology: Functional Genomics and Crop Improvement summarizes the current status of single-cell technology in plants i...

This contributed volume covers sugarcane byproducts, preservation, functional foods, bioethanol, and liquid fuels. It focuses on advancements in va...

Conventional plant breeding alone can no longer sustain the rising global demand for food. Genetic engineering technology makes it possible to deve...

This companion to The Business of Plant Breeding: Market-led Approaches to Plant Variety Design in Africa contains experiences from postgraduate ed...

Thebook is a culmination of extensive research, practical insights, and a deep understanding of entrepreneurship & new learning procedures. It ...

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on machine vision applications in agriculture.The first chapter examines recent advances in machine v...

Genomic Applications for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress, Quality and Yield Improvement is the second of two volumes looking at the latest advances i...

The increase in global population, urbanization and industrialization is resulting in the conversion of cultivated land into wasteland. Providing f...