Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Soybean and Nutrition

Editor Hany El-Shemy
ISBN 978-953-307-536-5
476 pages, September, 2011
Downloads: 1310

Worldwide, soybean seed proteins represent a major source of amino acids for human and animal nutrition. Soybean seeds are an important and economical source of protein in the diet of many developed and developing countries. Soy is a complete protein ...
Abiotic Stress Response in Plants - Physiological, Biochemical and Genetic Perspectives

Editor Arun Shanker and B. Venkateswarlu
ISBN 978-953-307-672-0
346 pages, August, 2011
Downloads: 5287

Plants, unlike animals, are sessile. This demands that adverse changes in their environment are quickly recognized, distinguished and responded to with suitable reactions. Drought, heat, cold and salinity are among the major abiotic stresses that ad ...
Soybean - Applications and Technology

Editor Tzi-Bun Ng
ISBN 978-953-307-207-4
402 pages, April, 2011
Downloads: 3948

Soybean is an agricultural crop of tremendous economic importance. Soybean and food items derived from it form dietary components of numerous people, especially those living in the Orient. The health benefits of soybean have attracted the attention o ...
Soybean - Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physiology

Editor Tzi-Bun Ng
ISBN 978-953-307-219-7
642 pages, April, 2011
Downloads: 2790

Soybean is an agricultural crop of tremendous economic importance. Soybean and food items derived from it form dietary components of numerous people, especially those living in the Orient. The health benefits of soybean have attracted the attention o ...
Soybean - Molecular Aspects of Breeding

Editor Aleksandra Sudaric
ISBN 978-953-307-240-1
514 pages, April, 2011
Downloads: 2166

The book Soybean: Molecular Aspects of Breeding focuses on recent progress in our understanding of the genetics and molecular biology of soybean and provides a broad review of the subject, from genome diversity to transformation and integration of de ...
Pesticides - Strategies for Pesticides Analysis

Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
ISBN 978-953-307-460-3
404 pages, January, 2011
Downloads: 3147

This book provides recent information on various analytical procedures and techniques, representing strategies for reliability, specificity, selectivity and sensitivity improvements in pesticides analysis. The volume covers three main topics: current ...
Pesticides - Formulations, Effects, Fate

Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
ISBN 978-953-307-532-7
808 pages, January, 2011
Downloads: 5114

This book provides an overview on a large variety of pesticide-related topics, organized in three sections. The first part is dedicated to the "safer" pesticides derived from natural materials, the design and the optimization of pesticides formulatio ...
Pesticides - The Impacts of Pesticides Exposure

Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
ISBN 978-953-307-531-0
446 pages, January, 2011
Downloads: 2111

Pesticides are supposed to complete their intended function without "any unreasonable risk to man or the environment". Pesticides approval and registration are performed "taking into account the economic, social and environmental costs and benefits o ...