Environment & Agriculture

Citrus is a very ancient crop known to have existed for over 4000 years. This book is an effort to present Citrus comprehensively. It aims at the holistic way-integrating Production and Utilization of Citrus...

Classification Methods for Remotely Sensed Data, Second Edition provides a comprehensive review of the field of classification methods applied to remotely sensed data. This edition provides seven fully revised chapters, and two new chapters covering support vector machines (SVM) and decision trees. ..

This book provides analyses ofthe global consequences to crop yields, production, and risk of hunger of linked socioeconomic and climate scenarios. Potential impacts of climate change are estimated to evaluate consequent changes in global cereal production, cereal prices, and the number of people at..

The purpose of this book is to provide a reference guide on principles and practices of cloning agricultural plants via in vitro techniques for scientists, students, commercial propagators, and other individuals who are interested in plant cell and tissue culture especially its application for cloni..

The design, development, and optimization of modern combine harvesters require a thorough understanding and a suitable representation (model) of each machine system as well as of the whole machine. This book provides a unique and unitary approach of the engineering concepts, construction, and calcul..

Conservation Farming in the United States: The Methods and Accomplishments of the STEEP Program explains the success of the STEEP (Solutions to Economic and Environmental Problems) conservation project, currently in its third decade, which focuses on the Palouse and the western Pacific Northwest. To..

In this invaluable book, leading agronomic researchers provide in-depth reviews of present conservation tillage practices in a wide variety of temperate agroecosystems...

The main goal of this book is to present a summary of the state of the art historical background. Conventional chemical pest control methods are mentioned only as a means of comparison to controlled release...

This dictionary includes every area of agriculture, from traditional farming to the latest techniques in biotechnology and genetics. The dictionary provides standardized definitions that establish common ground between the various types of practitioners involved in agriculture. It defines terminolog..

Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and discusses their economic and nutritional value...

This new compilation focuses on 386 of the most commonly used pesticides recently registered by the EPA...

This important and comprehensive book is designed to provide information on crop diseases and how to manage those diseases. Covering a multitude of crops and diseases, the book presents integrated approaches on managing diseases that affect such crops as cereal and crop plants, such as maize, pigeon..