The book compiles the main ideas and methodologies that have been proposed and tested within these last fifteen years in the field of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Begining with current experiences of soil information system developments in various regions of the world, this volume presents states of the art of different topics covered by DSM: Conception and handling of soil databases, sampling methods, new soil spatial covariates, Quantitative spatial modelling, Quality assessment and representat...
Rice has been chosen as a model cereal for functional genomics because of its well understood genetics. In addition, there is great similarities among all the cereals and grasses: any understanding of rice genes is directly applicable to the genes of other cereals. This book details rice functional genomics. It takes a multi-pronged genome-wide approach using structural similarities, expression profiles, and mutant phenotypes. Coverage includes the current status of genome sequencing and annotat...
The 2006 Suriname Economic and Product Market Databook
by Philip M. Parker
While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtney Fullilove shows, is that seeds are inherently political objects transformed by the ways they are gathered, preserved, distributed, regenerated, and improved. In The Profit of the Earth, Fullilove unearths the history of American agricultural develo...
The 2006 Laos Economic and Product Market Databook
by Philip M. Parker
Cocoa
In this new fifth edition all major aspects of the crop are covered within this important volume, including the history and development of the cocoa crop, botany, agronomy, labour usage, crop protection, post harvest management, quality and inspection, marketing, production, consumption and manufacture. New details include waste processing and other environmental issues, social issues, sustainability and organic aspects, functional properties for enhancing nutritional benefits, and traceability...
Dynamics of Soil
Soilless Culture: Theory and Practice: Theory and Practice
by Michael Raviv
Habitat manipulation comprises biological control, crop rotations, crop diversity, flower strips, natural enemy refuges etc, and is a powerful tool for suppressing arthropod pest populations. It offers scope for farmers to avoid 'high tech' approaches, and reliance on powerful pesticides, and is the backbone of organic and traditional farming systems. This book examines the broad range of theoretical, methodological and applied approaches currently used, and captures state-of-the-art thinking by...
Alternative Farming Systems, Biotechnology, Drought Stress and Ecological Fertilisation
by Lichtfouse Eric
Pesticide Manual