Category Archives: Agronomy

Soil Carbon Management: Economic, Environmental and Societal Benefits

Better Manage Soil C for Improved Soil Quality In the United States, soil has fueled the availability of abundant, safe food, thus underpinning economic growth and development. In the future we need to be more vigilant in managing and renewing … Continue reading

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The Triazine Herbicides (Chemicals in Agriculture Series)

Over the past 50 years, triazines have made a great impact on agriculture and world hunger by assisting in the development of new farming methods, providing greater farming and land use capabilities, and increasing crop yields. Triazines are registered in … Continue reading

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Plant Roots: Growth, Activity and Interactions with the Soil

The root system is a vital part of the plant and therefore understanding roots and their functioning is key to agricultural, plant and soil scientists. In Plant Roots Professor Peter Gregory brings together recent developments in techniques and an improved … Continue reading

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Agrobacterium Protocols: Volume I (Methods in Molecular Biology)

A gold standard collection of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation techniques for state-of-the-art plant genetic engineering, functional genomic analysis, and crop improvement. Volume 1 details the most updated techniques available for twenty-six plant species drawn from cereal crops, industrial plants, legume plants, and … Continue reading

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Handbook of Plant Nutrition (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

The burgeoning demand on the world food supply, coupled with concern over the use of chemical fertilizers, has led to an accelerated interest in the practice of precision agriculture. This practice involves the careful control and monitoring of plant nutrition … Continue reading

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Soils: Basic Concepts and Future Challenges

This book was born as an international tribute to Fiorenzo C. Ugolini, an outstanding soil scientist who recently retired from university teaching and research. It is a fully up-to-date synthesis of the present knowledge of soils, their genesis, functions and … Continue reading

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Pesticides: Health, Safety and the Environment

Over the last five decades pesticides have undoubtedly helped to increase agricultural production and control vectors of disease, however the environmental impact of long term agro-chemical use has been cause for concern along with the effects on human health. In … Continue reading

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Plant Breeding: The Arnel R. Hallauer International Symposium

Plant breeding practices have improved the livelihoods of millions. Current breeding practices have allowed farmers to produce enough crops to feed growing populations, added significant profits in the grain trade, and minimized the amount of land needed for agricultural production … Continue reading

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Plant Biotechnology: Current and Future Applications of Genetically Modified Crops

Plant Biotechnology: Current and Future Uses of Genetically Modified Crops covers in detail the development, use and regulation of GM crops. Split into three sections, Part 1introduces GM crops anddescribes the GM crops that are used commercially. Part 2 looks … Continue reading

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Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics (Advances in Soil Science)

The most complete, nonpartisan source of information available today on this hot agronomic topic, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate between sedimentologists, soil scientists, and agronomists over whether the effects of … Continue reading

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