Agronomy & Crop Production

With coverage of chemistry, genetics, and molecular breeding, this book provides comprehensive and current information on barley types, composition...

Climate Change and Agriculture Authoritative and comprehensive resource covering climate-smart agriculture with key insights into its implementatio...

Biological diversity is as crucial in agriculture as it is in nature, and it is equally important to the economic health of both industrial and non...

Darwin's Harvest addresses concerns that we are losing the diversity of crop plants that provide food for most of the world. With contributions fro...

With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted territory—where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in agriculture vie with dire view...

Long recognized as the standard work in its field, this fifth edition of Breeding Field Crops deals with worldwide advances in plant breeding scien...

Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in the horticultural sciences. The emphasis is on applied topics including the pr...

New technologies are becoming available for managing glyphosate resistant (GR) weeds and reducing their spread. GR crop technology has revolutioniz...

A comprehensive guide that covers the banana's full value chain — from production to consumption  The banana is the world's fourth major fruit crop...

Plant Genomics introduces the complex relationship between the genome, microbiome, genes, and epigenetics of plants, as well as the range of molecu...

This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is ...

Great attention has been paid to reduce the use of conventional chemical fertilizers harming living beings through food chain supplements from the ...

Sometime around 1500 AD, an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of t...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Volume 2 covers nitrogen fertilizer efficiency, acid tolerance of the legume symbiosis, fruit tree nutrition, rhizosphere pH change, iron deficienc...

Algae, macroalgae and microalgae can be valuable biological resources in a new, more environmentally friendly form of agriculture known as agrobiol...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Innovation is a major challenge for economic development and social progress. Faced with the ecological and food problems that the world is current...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Agriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. New ideas, research, and initiatives developed over the past deca...

An analysis of the historical and scientific effects of technology transfer from an imperial to colonial setting. Science and Power in Colonial Ma...

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES HARVESTING, HANDLING AND STORAGE The second edition of this very well-received book, which in its first edition was entitled P...

Hemp, Cannabis sativa, has been called the world's most versatile plant. Materials made from hemp fibre have been discovered in tombs dating back t...

With a new introduction by Gareth Austin This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which...

Bioresource Technology Discover the latest developments in the field of bioresource technology with this practical handbook The management and cul...

Harnessing fungi’s enzymatic ability to break down lignocellulolytic biomass to produce ethanol more efficiently and cost-effectively has become a ...

Presents the latest knowledge of improving the stress tolerance, yield, and quality of rice crops One of the most important cereal crops, rice prov...

This new and updated edition of a popular text provides a broad, balanced review of the scientific knowledge of strawberries and their cultivation....

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the field of quantitative genetics, genomics and breeding has changed markedly. In resp...