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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 3

    Diseases and pests

    by Prof André Drenth, Dr Guy Blomme, Dr Luis Pérez-Vicente, Dr Lilia Carvalhais, Dr John Thomas, Dr Andrew Geering, Dr Sebastien Massart, Dr Mieke Daneel, Dr Tony Pattison, Dr Cesar Guillen Sanchez0, Mr Frans Wielemaker Sanderse1, Prof Gert Kema3, Dr Luud Clercx4, Mr Marc Jackson5, Dr Maria Gloria Lobo6, Dr Jean Carlier7, Dr Mauricio Guzmán8, Dr Einar Martinez9, Prof Luis Ernesto Pocasangre0, Dr Jane Ray1 ...
    Bananas are a key food source for millions, whilst their production supports the livelihood of farmers across the globe. However, recent research has identified the vulnerability of particular banana varieties to major pests and diseases. With the banana industry under threat of extinction, more research is required into understanding the biology of the pests and diseases that pose this threat so ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Instant Insights: Understanding and tackling Fusarium wilt of banana

    by Various authors, Mr Dan Koeppel, Dr Einar Martínez de la Parte, Dr Luis Pérez-Vicente, Dr Fernando García-Bastidas, Prof André Drenth, Prof Gert H. J. Kema, Prof Eli Khayat, Dr Edson Amorim, Dr Vanusia Batista de Oliveira Amorim, Dr Manassés dos Santos Silva, Dr Fernando Haddad, Dr Claudia Fortes Ferreira, Janay Almeida dos Santos Serejo ...
    Series Book 119 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on understanding and tackling Fusarium wilt in global banana production.The first chapter examines the way in which monoculture has affected the banana industry and discusses the available banana varieties, the advent of the Cavendish variety and the need to develop new banana varieties.The second chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana

    Protocols

    Edited by Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Ivan L. Ingelbrecht ...
    Bananas are a staple food for over 500 million people and are also an important cash crop. Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, is one of the most destructive diseases of banana globally. Since the 1990s, an aggressive variant of this fungus, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), severely affected banana plantations in Southeast Asia from where it spread to other ... Read more

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  • Sterile Insect Technique

    Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

    Edited by Victor A. Dyck, Jorge Hendrichs, A.S. Robinson ...
    The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from ... Read more

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  • Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

    Edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Vera ...
    Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication*. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests* comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse ... Read more

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  • Biological Control

    Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management

    Edited by Peter G. Mason ...
    Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management provides a historical summary of organisms and main strategies used in biological control, as well as the key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century.Biological control has been implemented for millennia, initially practised by growers moving beneficial species from one local area to ... Read more

    $128.19 USD

  • The Potato Crop

    Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind

    Edited by Hugo Campos, Oscar Ortiz ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of ... Read more

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  • Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients

    Production, Processing and Food Applications

    Edited by M. Guadalupe Rojas, Aaron T. Dossey, Juan A. Morales-Ramos ...
    Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients: Production, Processing and Food Applications describes how insects can be mass produced and incorporated into our food supply at an industrial and cost-effective scale, providing valuable guidance on how to build the insect-based agriculture and the food and biomaterial industry. Editor Aaron Dossey, a pioneer in the processing of insects for human ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Pre-Field Screening Protocols for Heat-Tolerant Mutants in Rice

    by Fatma Sarsu, Abdelbagi M.A. Ghanim, Priyanka Das, Rajeev N. Bahuguna, Paul Mbogo Kusolwa, Muhammed Ashraf, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek, Ashwani Pareek, Brian P. Forster, Ivan Ingelbrecht ...
    This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering stages – with screening based on simple phenotypic responses. The protocols are based on the use of a hydroponics system and/or ... Read more

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  • Banana Breeding

    Progress and Challenges

    Edited by Michael Pillay, Abdou Tenkouano ...
    With the current world population growth of 1.2%, the earth can expect to house 9-10 billion people by 2050. Food production, too, must increase to accommodate these numbers. Easy growing, high calorie, nutritious foods, such as bananas are the top priority as a solution to this imminent problem. The first comprehensive compendium on bananas in rec ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2

    Genetics, breeding, pests and diseases

    by Enilto de Oliveira Neubert, Luiz Augusto Martins Peruch, Dr Michael Abberton, Badara Gueye, Tchamba Marimagne, Folarin Soyode, Dr Hernán Ceballos, Nelson Morante, Fernando Calle, Jorge Lenis, Dr Virgilio Gavicho Uarrota, Sandra Salazar, Dr Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Ismail Y. Rabbi, Prof. P. Zhang, Q. Ma, M. Naconsie, X. Wu, W. Zhou, J. Yang, Dr Piya Kittipadakul, Deivid L. V. Stefen, Pasajee Kongsil, Chalermpol Phumichai, Shelley H. Jansky, Dr Elizabeth Parkes, Olufemi Aina, Adebayo Abass, Wasiu Awoyale, Lateef Sanni, Taofik Shittu, Dr James P. Legg, Clovis Arruda de Souza, Dr Elizabeth Alvarez, Ignazio Graziosi, Dr Kris A. G. Wyckhuys, Dr Stefan Hauser, Dr Friday Ekeleme, Cileide Maria Medeiros Coelho, Rodolfo Moresco, Marcelo Maraschin, Fernando David Sánchez-Mora, Eduardo da Costa Nunes ...
    Series Book 21 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Assesses developments in genetic resources, genomic information and their application in marker-assisted breeding of cassava;Reviews advances in breeding new varieties with enhanced properties such as higher yield, enhanced nutritional value and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses;Discusses advances in understanding cassava pests and diseases and integrated pest management techniques ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Oil Palm Breeding

    Genetics and Genomics

    Edited by Aik Chin Soh, Sean Mayes, Jeremy A. Roberts ...
    The oil palm is a remarkable crop, producing around 40% of the world’s vegetable oil from around 6% of the land devoted to oil crops. Conventional breeding has clearly been the major focus of genetic improvement in this crop. A mix of improved agronomy and management, coupled with breeding selection have quadrupled the oil yield of the crop since breeding began in earnest in the 1920s. However, as ... Read more

    $67.99 USD