Agricultural and Biological Sciences

  • Soybean - Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physiology
    Soybean - Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physiology
    Editor Tzi-Bun Ng
    ISBN 978-953-307-219-7
    642 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 2827
    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
    Soybean - Molecular Aspects of Breeding
    Editor Aleksandra Sudaric
    ISBN 978-953-307-240-1
    514 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 2195
    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
    Pesticides - Strategies for Pesticides Analysis
    Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
    ISBN 978-953-307-460-3
    404 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 3189
    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
    Pesticides - Formulations, Effects, Fate
    Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
    ISBN 978-953-307-532-7
    808 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 5189
    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
    Pesticides - The Impacts of Pesticides Exposure
    Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
    ISBN 978-953-307-531-0
    446 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 2139
    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 ...
  • Herbicides and Environment
    Herbicides and Environment
    Editor Andreas Kortekamp
    ISBN 978-953-307-476-4
    746 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 2863
    Herbicides are much more than just weed killers. They may exhibit beneficial or adverse effects on other organisms. Given their toxicological, environmental but also agricultural relevance, herbicides are an interesting field of activity not only for ...
  • Herbicides, Theory and Applications
    Herbicides, Theory and Applications
    Editor Sonia Soloneski and Marcelo L. Larramendy
    ISBN 978-953-307-975-2
    610 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 2240
    The content selected in Herbicides, Theory and Applications is intended to provide researchers, producers and consumers of herbicides an overview of the latest scientific achievements. Although we are dealing with many diverse and different topics, w ...
  • Fungicides
    Fungicides
    Editor Odile Carisse
    ISBN 978-953-307-266-1
    538 pages, December, 2010
    Downloads: 3055
    Plant and plant products are affected by a large number of plant pathogens among which fungal pathogens. These diseases play a major role in the current deficit of food supply worldwide. Various control strategies were developed to reduce the negativ ...