Agronomía y producción agrícola

Tecnología, ingeniería, agricultura / Agricultura y explotación agropecuaria / Agronomía y producción agrícola (649)

Libros Eliminar filtro Tecnología, ingeniería, agricultura Eliminar filtro Agricultura y explotación agropecuaria Eliminar filtro Agronomía y producción agrícola Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Recherches sur les instruments aratoires et le travail du sol en Gaule Belgique
    André Marbach
    A volume of detailed research and summary into metal farming tools used in Gaul/Upper Germania from the Gallo-Romano period; indeed many of the types are still in use today. 199 finds are investigated and reconstructed to show the various techniques of manufacture, use and efficiency. The new method of analysis has shown that ploughing equipment was capable of turning the soil ...
    Disponible

    109,47 €

  • Advances in plant factories
    This collection reviews the wealth of research on vertical farms or plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs). It summarises key research both on improving process efficiency and produce quality of horticultural crops such as fruit and vegetables, ornamentals and herbs. ...
    Disponible

    290,93 €

  • Understanding and minimising fungicide resistance
    This collection reviews the wealth of research on understanding the development of fungicide resistance and preventative measures to limit the problem and its impact on effective control of crop diseases. ...
    Disponible

    269,85 €

  • Advances in ensuring the microbiological safety of fresh produce
    This collection reviews the wide range of research on preventing microbial contamination of fresh fruit and vegetables, from understanding key pathogens to ways of detecting and preventing contamination across the supply chain. ...
    Disponible

    262,91 €

  • Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems
    This collection summarises the wealth of research on ways to improve models predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural systems, as well as their application to understanding impacts in particular regions. ...
    Disponible

    291,71 €

  • Instant Insights
    Megan Long / Michael Schirmann / Nathaniel Newlands
    This collection features six peer-reviewed reviews on advances and in detecting and forecasting crop pests and diseases. The first chapter introduces the concept of machine learning to identify and diagnose crop diseases, focussing on the deep learning concept. The second chapter discusses recent advances in crop disease forecasting models, focussing on the application of preci...
    Disponible

    69,98 €

  • Key issues in agricultural ethics
    This collection explores key ethical debates surrounding agriculture and agri-food supply chains, including issues such as animal welfare, use of labour, the effects of new technologies and the overall impact of agriculture on the environment. It considers the ways these ethical dilemmas may be better understood and potentially resolved. ...
    Disponible

    262,52 €

  • Instant Insights
    Catello Pane / Dr Catello Pane / Dr Kenneth A. Sudduth / Kenneth A Sudduth / Prof Richard B. Ferguson / Richard B Ferguson
    This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on proximal sensors in agriculture. ...
    Disponible

    69,58 €

  • Instant Insights
    Adriana Farah / Arnaud Petitvallet / Claudine Campa
    This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on the nutritional and health benefits of beverage crops. The first chapter introduces the importance of coffee leaves, highlighting their high antioxidant potential and impact on fruit quality. The chapter provides an inventory of molecules identified in the leaves of cultivated coffee trees, as well as the beneficial effects...
    Disponible

    69,68 €

  • Advances in monitoring of native and invasive insect pests of crops
    Dr Archie K. Murchie
    Early detection of insect pests is critical to successful integrated pest management (IPM) programmes. This collection reviews the wealth of research on improving monitoring techniques for the detection of both native and alien insect pests. ...
    Disponible

    249,02 €

  • The Ultimate Guide to Beekeeping
    SERGIO RIJO
    If you’ve ever been interested in beekeeping, The Ultimate Guide to Beekeeping: Tips and Tricks for Beginners is the perfect resource for you. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to get started, from the basics of beekeeping to advanced techniques for managing your hives.Starting with the equipment you’ll need, the book takes you through the process of s...
    Disponible

    12,27 €

  • Advances in understanding insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals
    This collection reviews the wealth of research on understanding insect population dynamics, novel pest invasions, the effects of changing production systems, plant-pathogen-interactions, detection, forecasting and decision support for integrated pest management (IPM) techniques to control major insect pests affecting wheat and other cereals. ...
    Disponible

    270,05 €

  • Instant Insights
    Leisa Armstrong / N Gandhi / P Taechatanasat
    This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in agriculture. The first chapter reviews developments in the use of AI techniques to improve the functionality of decision support systems in agriculture. It reviews the use of techniques such as data mining, artificial neural networks, Bayesian networks, support vector machines an...
    Disponible

    69,59 €

  • Instant Insights
    Helene Reynaud / Paolo Bonini / Veronica Cirino
    This collection features five peer-reviewed reviews on biostimulant applications in agriculture. The first chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the optimal design and formulation of microbial and non-microbial biostimulants. The chapter presents two case studies to demonstrate the successful commercialisation of microbial and non-microbial biostimulant products. The sec...
    Disponible

    69,92 €

  • Instant Insights
    Daniel Kidd / Jiayin Pang / Zhihui Wen
    This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on phosphorus uptake and use in crops. The first chapter summarises the progress in research on root traits associated with phosphorus acquisition, including root morphology, architecture, biochemistry, colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and fine root endophytes. The chapter also reviews the recent advances in breed...
    Disponible

    69,84 €

  • Instant Insights
    Abeya Temesgen / Gilbert C Sigua / L Bedoussac
    This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on intercropping.The first chapter summarises data from over 50 field experiments undertaken since 2001 on cereal-grain legume intercropping using spring and winter cereal-grain legume intercrops. The chapter addresses the effects of intercropping on yields and quality, the agronomical performance of intercropping and cultivat...
    Disponible

    69,54 €

  • Advances in sensor technology for sustainable crop production
    This collection reviews key advances in sensor technology, including developments in proximal and remote sensing techniques to measure and monitor crop health, weeds and diseases. ...
    Disponible

    262,82 €

  • Beneficial Nematodes And Nematode Antagonistic Bioagents
    S. Subramanian
    Based on the biocontrol potential of entomopathogenic nematodes it can be used in the pest combat strategies and bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes having biocontrol potential against plant parasitic nematodes. The book on 'Beneficial Nematodes and Nematode Antagonistic Bioagents' comprises of two sections, the first section (chapter 1 to 16) deals with isolation, identification...
    Disponible

    45,68 €

  • Air Pollution and Its Impacts on Plant Growth
    Shilpa Shyam
    Rapid urbanization and industrialization has led to continuous deterioration of air quality which i a major environmental problem in many urban centers in both the developed and developing countries. Air pollution is characterized by high concentration of suspended particulates matter, oxides of Sulphur and nitrogen primarily from increased use of vehicles. The book provided i...
    Disponible

    36,78 €

  • Agronomy
    E. Somasundaram / M. Mohamed Amanullah
    Understanding the basic principles of agronomy is as much important as that of knowing the latest developments scenario in the field of agriculture. It is strenuous strive to keep pace with the progress of such a vast subject like Agronomy which is in practice throughout the globe. The book is divided in to 15 chapters and which covers comprehensively the syllabus of the princi...
    Disponible

    46,40 €

  • Fostering a Healthy Planet
    Michael Barton
    'Transform Your Understanding of Agriculture & Soil Science with 'Fostering a Healthy Planet'Looking for an insightful and engaging guide to regenerative agriculture and soil science? 'Fostering a Healthy Planet' is your 2-in-1 collection, providing essential knowledge for creating a sustainable future.From 'The Power of Regenerative Agriculture:'It provides a holistic view of ...
    Disponible

    22,44 €

  • Fostering a Healthy Planet
    Michael Barton
    'Transform Your Understanding of Agriculture & Soil Science with 'Fostering a Healthy Planet'Looking for an insightful and engaging guide to regenerative agriculture and soil science? 'Fostering a Healthy Planet' is your 2-in-1 collection, providing essential knowledge for creating a sustainable future.From 'The Power of Regenerative Agriculture:'It provides a holistic view of ...
    Disponible

    30,31 €

  • Agri-Food Crops
    R.Sasi Kumar
    The book deals with value addition and processing of agro-food crops. Each agro-food crop is discussed from the point of its production, processing, value addition, packaging and storage. Main food crops of special importance in the food processing sector like cereals, millets and pulses, minor forest products, fruits and vegetables and milk and milk based products are consider...
    Disponible

    63,11 €

  • An Illustrated Dictionary of Floriculture and Landscaping
    M. Kannan / P. Ranchana / S. Vinodh
    In the present work, the authors have endeavored to bring out the information on various characteristics of morphological, taxonomical, economical importance of floriculture and landscaping in glossary format with illustrations and photographs. The book will prove useful to the students and researchers in horticulture, landscapists and botanists as it is for the first time that...
    Disponible

    114,20 €

  • Analytical Techniques In Animal Nutrition Research
    Prabhu T. M.
    Analysis of rumen liquor for fraction of VFA’s enzymatic activity of various metabolites and estimation of rumen fluid volume and its flow rate are covered in depth. It was followed by estimation of anti-nutritional / toxic factors in various un-conventional feeds using HPLC / Spectrophotometer, detail analysis of milk and body condition scoring for dairy cattle are included as...
    Disponible

    29,45 €

  • A TEXTBOOK OF SEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    S. Padmavathi
    A Text Book of Seed Science and Technology: Seed Science and Technology is the science of new discipline which deals with the principles and methods of production of Quality Seed and improving the quality of the seed by various seed enhancement techniques starting from sowing till the storage. The Importance of Seed Quality can be felt by the proverb 'what are known as Seeds of...
    Disponible

    30,49 €

  • Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Plants
    B.K. Sinha / Reena
    This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants focusing “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as, Major insect-pest of cereal crops in India and their management, Biotic stresses of major pulse crops and their management strategies, Insect pest of oilseed crops and their manageme...
    Disponible

    96,15 €

  • A Colour Handbook on Practical Plant Pathology
    Vijay Yadav
    This Laboratory Manual has been designed for students for easy understanding of basic plant pathological laboratory techniques related with Isolation of pathogen, Preservation of disease samples, Demonstration of Koch.s postulates, Study of different groups of fungicides and antibiotics, Preparation of fungicides, Methods of application of fungicides, Bio-assay of fungicides, B...
    Disponible

    47,17 €

  • Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Plants
    B.K. Sinha / Reena
    This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of abiotic stress responses in plants focusing “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as, Cell signalling in Plants during abiotic and biotic stress, Salinity stress induced metabolic changes and its management, High temperature stress: responses, mechanism and managemen...
    Disponible

    96,70 €

  • Achieving sustainable turfgrass management
    This collection summarises and reviews the wealth of recent research addressing key challenges facing the turfgrass industry, including the need to reduce its carbon footprint and contribution to climate change. ...
    Disponible

    298,41 €