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  • Expedition Agroparks

    Research by Design into Sustainable Development and Agriculture in the Network Society

    This book is the result of several years of expedition into the development of metropolitan FoodClusters. The author's fascination for the agricultural landscapes in and around metropolises led him to the conclusion that improving the efficiency of agriculture is the most effective way to safeguard the quality of such landscapes. The wasteful modes of production developed in the past 150 years ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Plant Systematics

    Plant Systematics, Second Edition, provides the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants.It presents a foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence, and terminology of plant systematics, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field. This updated ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Forest Health

    An Integrated Perspective

    Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective is the first book to define an ecologically rational, conceptual framework that unifies and integrates the many sub-disciplines that comprise the science of forest health and protection. This new global approach applies to boreal, temperate, tropical, natural, managed, even-aged, uneven-aged and urban forests, as well as plantations. Readers of the text can ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability

    Volume 1

    Edited by Ram Prasad ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Remediation through fungi—or mycoremediation—has multifarious possibilities in applied remediation engineering and the future of environmental sustainability. Fungi have the biochemical and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Plant Variation and Evolution

    We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also offering the opportunity for significant progress in the investigation of long-term evolution of flowering plants, as part of molecular phylogenetic studies of the Tree of ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Molecular Farming in Plants: Recent Advances and Future Prospects

    Edited by Aiming Wang, Shengwu Ma ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Molecular farming in plants is a relatively young subject of sciences. As plants can offer an inexpensive and convenient platform for the large-scale production of recombinant proteins with various functions, the driven force from the giant market for recombinant protein pharmaceuticals and industrial enzymes makes this subject grow and advance very quickly. To summarize recent advances, current ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi

    Edited by Marcela C. Pagano ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi integrates work done by pre-eminent scientists, academics, and researchers dedicated to the study of mycorrhizas in laboratories around the world. The main aim of this book is to compile the information related to mycorrhizas advancement and their applications. First, an overview of the recent advances in mycorrhizal fungi is fully examined. Then, researchers ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Rainfed Farming Systems

    While a good grasp of the many separate aspects of agriculture is important, it is equally essential for all those involved in agriculture to understand the functioning of the farming system as a whole and how it can be best managed. It is necessary to re-assess and understand rain-fed farming systems around the world and to find ways to improve the selection, design and operation of such systems ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Legume Nitrogen Fixation in a Changing Environment

    Achievements and Challenges

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The world population will grow more rapidly during the few coming years. This must be accompanied by a parallel increase in the agricultural production to secure adequate food. Sustainability considerations mandate that alternatives to chemical nitrogen fertilizers must be urgently sought. Biological nitrogen (N2) fixation, a microbiological process which converts atmospheric N2 into a plant ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Downy Mildew Disease of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book reviews key developments in downy mildew research, including the disease, its distribution, symptomatology, host range, yield losses, and disease assessment; the pathogen, its taxonomy, morphology, phylogeny, variability, sporulation, survival and perpetuation, spore germination, infection, pathogenesis, seed infection, disease cycle, epidemiology, forecasting, and fine structures. The ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Animal and Plant Stem Cells

    Concepts, Propagation and Engineering

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a multifaceted look into the world of stem cells and explains the similarities and differences between plant and human stem cells. It explores the intersection between animals and plants and explains their cooperative role in bioengineering studies. The book treats both theoretical and practical aspects of stem cell research. It covers the advantages and limitations of many ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Biological Management of Diseases of Crops

    Volume 2: Integration of Biological Control Strategies with Crop Disease Management Systems

    Series Book 16 - Progress in Biological Control
    Biological management of diseases of crops is influenced by the nature of interactions between the pathogens and other organisms and the plants. Due to development of resistance in pathogens to fungicides and bactericides, determination of compatibility of biotic biocontrol agents with chemicals is essential for selecting strains of biocontrol agents (BCAs) showing resistance to chemicals to ... Read more

    $188.99 USD