This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current achievements and future possibilities for the application of epigenetic and epigenomic techniques to the improvement of crops. Creating crop……続きを見る
Two iconic trees might be more important for food security and preventing disastrous global warming than any other species growing on our home planet.
Baobab and marula could be grown sparsely on va……続きを見る
著者：Monika Hartmann, Joachim Hesse
出版社： Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
発売日： 2014年12月15日
This Festschrift in honour of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. P. Michael Schmitz covers theoretical as well as empirical works on challenges prevailing in the food and agricultural sector. Discussions of con……続きを見る
Genome editing offers a powerful tool to significantly accelerate crop-breeding programs in order to develop new and improved varieties. It allows precise modification of an organism's DNA sequence,……続きを見る
Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal's behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model……続きを見る
Reviews the development of novel feed sources as feed for poultry, focussing on the use of essential oils, macroalgae, microalgae and corn fermented protein
Addresses the recent advances in underst……続きを見る
Biofortification is a widely accepted cost-effective agricultural strategy to improve the nutrient deficiency in populations. It is especially useful in low income and developing nations. Strategies……続きを見る
The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the world's most important palms, and contributes significantly to the income and livelihood of many people in tropical countries. Widely referred to a……続きを見る
In recent years, consumers have become increasingly interested not just in price and quality but in where and how food is produced. However, these changes to consumer attitudes have highlighted a co……続きを見る
Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;
Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as ……続きを見る
Reviews key challenges and solutions in improving the health and welfare of organic farm animals
Addresses how organic livestock farming can build on smallholder systems such as pastoralism and agr……続きを見る
Summarises current research on the adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA) principles in different regions around the world
Highlights the emergence of CA as a key alternative to tillage-based ag……続きを見る
This updated and expanded second edition adds the most recent advances in participatory planning approaches and methods, giving special emphasis to decision support tools usable under uncertainty. T……続きを見る
This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalising world that fundamentally impacts on the structure of agricultural life in rural areas and urban-rural relations. It analys……続きを見る
This is a hands-on practical guide to the use of Trichoderma as a biocontrol, as part of sustainable disease control measures for Ganoderma disease in oil palm plantations. The manual provides backg……続きを見る
This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in……続きを見る
Trichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years……続きを見る
This book contains current knowledge and the most recent developments in the field of halophyte biology, ecology, and potential uses. Halophytes are characterised as plants that can survive and comp……続きを見る
Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) has profound effects on plant growth and development, and exposure varies with ozone depletion and across geographic regions, with ecosystem and agricultural consequen……続きを見る
Selbst gebaute und gestaltete Nützlingsquartiere – vom Insektenhotel bis zum Fledermauskasten – bieten vielen Tieren geeignete Ruhe- oder Überwinterungsplätze. Zusätzliche Gartenelemente aus natürli……続きを見る
The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutriti……続きを見る
This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996–2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results. The invent……続きを見る
The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years’ rotat……続きを見る
