Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Plant Breeding from Laboratories to Fields

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Editor Sven Bode Andersen
ISBN 978-953-51-1090-3
288 pages, May, 2013
Downloads: 91

Breeding of crop plants to make them more adapted to human agricultural systems has been on-going during domestication the last 10 000 years. However, only recently with the invention of the Mendelian principles of genetics and the subsequent develo ...
Oxidative Stress and Chronic Degenerative Diseases - A Role for Antioxidants

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Editor José A. Morales-González
ISBN 978-953-51-1123-8
501 pages, May, 2013
Downloads: 90

This work responds to the need to find, in a sole document, the affect of oxidative stress at different levels, as well as treatment with antioxidants to revert and diminish the damage. Oxidative Stress and Chronic Degenerative Diseases - a Role for ...
Agricultural Science

Editor Godwin Aflakpui
ISBN 978-953-51-0567-1
252 pages, April, 2012
Downloads: 3670

This book covers key areas in agricultural science, namely crop improvement, production, response to water, nutrients, and temperature, crop protection, agriculture and human health, and animal nutrition. The contributions by the authors include mani ...
Current Progress in Biological Research

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Editor Marina Silva-Opps
ISBN 978-953-51-1097-2
385 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 278

Current Progress in Biological Research presents new insights into key topics from different areas of the biological sciences. Some of the topics covered in the book are antibiotic susceptibility, genomic rearrangement, historical biogeography, bioge ...
Abiotic Stress - Plant Responses and Applications in Agriculture

Editor Kourosh Vahdati and Charles Leslie
ISBN 978-953-51-1024-8
410 pages, March, 2013
Downloads: 664

"This book is not intended to cover all known abiotic stresses or every possible technique used to understand plant tolerance but, instead, to describe some of the widely used approaches to addressing such major abiotic stresses as drought, salinity, ...
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 ...
Plants and Environment

Editor Hemanth KN. Vasanthaiah and Devaiah Kambiranda
ISBN 978-953-307-779-6
272 pages, October, 2011
Downloads: 4613

Changing environmental condition and global population demands understanding the plant responses to hostile environment. Significant progress has been made over the past few decades through amalgamation of molecular breeding with non-conventional bre ...
Mycotoxin and Food Safety in Developing Countries

Editor Hussaini Anthony Makun
ISBN 978-953-51-1096-5
268 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 327

This book provides information on the incidence of fungi and mycotoxins in some African countries, the health implications and possible intervention control strategies for mycotoxins in developing countries and in Africa in particular. It will theref ...
Weed and Pest Control - Conventional and New Challenges

Editor Sonia Soloneski and Marcelo Larramendy
ISBN 978-953-51-0984-6
205 pages, March, 2013
Downloads: 471

This book covers alternative insect control strategies, such as the allelopathy phenomenon, tactics in integrated pest management of opportunistic generalist insect species, biological control of root pathogens, insect pest control by polyculture str ...
Aflatoxins - Recent Advances and Future Prospects

Editor Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh
ISBN 978-953-51-0904-4
395 pages, January, 2013
Downloads: 759

This book is broadly divided into five sections and 17 chapters, highlighting recent advances in aflatoxin research from epidemiology to molecular genomics and control measures, biocontrol approaches, modern analytical techniques, economic concerns a ...
Plant Pathology

Editor Christian Joseph R. Cumagun
ISBN 978-953-51-0489-6
362 pages, April, 2012
Downloads: 2562

Plant pathology is an applied science that deals with the nature, causes and control of plant diseases in agriculture and forestry. The vital role of plant pathology in attaining food security and food safety for the world cannot be overemphasized.
Pesticides - Formulations, Effects, Fate

Editor Margarita Stoytcheva
ISBN 978-953-307-532-7
808 pages, January, 2011
Downloads: 5115

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 ...
The Species Problem - Ongoing Issues

Editor Igor Ya. Pavlinov
ISBN 978-953-51-0957-0
280 pages, February, 2013
Downloads: 634

The book includes collection of theoretical papers dealing with the species problem, which is among most fundamental issues in biology. The principal topics are: consideration of the species problem from the standpoint of modern non-classical science ...
Recent Advances in Plant in vitro Culture

Editor Annarita Leva and Laura M. R. Rinaldi
ISBN 978-953-51-0787-3
210 pages, October, 2012
Downloads: 1254

The purpose of this book is to provide the advances in plant in vitro culture as related to perennial fruit crops and medicinal plants. Basic principles and new techniques, now available, are presented in detail. The book will be of use to resear ...
Soybean - Bio-Active Compounds

Editor Hany A. El-Shemy
ISBN 978-953-51-0977-8
546 pages, February, 2013
Downloads: 516

Legumes are important for the diet of a significant part of the world's population; they are a good source of protein, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. The "importance of soybean" lies in the overall agriculture and trade and in its contribution ...
Zoology

Editor Maria-Dolores Garcia
ISBN 978-953-51-0360-8
206 pages, March, 2012
Downloads: 2343

The present book is not a classical manual on Zoology and the reader should not expect to find the usual treatment of animal groups. As a consequence, some people may feel disappointed when consulting the index, mainly if searching for something that ...
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 ...
Organic Farming and Food Production

Editor Petr Konvalina
ISBN 978-953-51-0842-9
189 pages, November, 2012
Downloads: 1018

Organic farming does not mean going "back" to traditional (old) methods of farming. Many of the farming methods used in the past are still useful today. Organic farming takes the best of these and combines them with modern scientific knowledge. The ...
Food Industry

Editor Innocenzo Muzzalupo
ISBN 978-953-51-0911-2
748 pages, January, 2013
Downloads: 658

Due to the increase in world population (more than seven billion inhabitants) the global food industry has the largest number of demanding and knowledgeable consumers. This population requires food products that fulfill the high quality standards est ...
Insecticides - Development of Safer and More Effective Technologies

Editor Stanislav Trdan
ISBN 978-953-51-0958-7
548 pages, January, 2013
Downloads: 582

This book contains 20 chapters about the impact, environmental fate, modes of action, efficacy, and non-target effects of insecticides. The chapters are divided into 7 parts. Part 1 covers the non-target effects of insecticides, whereas part 2 is ded ...