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Growing American Rubber explores America's quest during tense decades of the twentieth century to identify a viable source of domestic rubber. Straddling international revolutions and world wars, this unique and well-researched history chronicles efforts of leaders in business, science, and government to sever American dependence on foreign suppliers. Mark Finlay plots out intersecting networks of actors including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, prominent botanists, interned Japanese Americans, Haiti...

Es una introduccion breve, pero completa, del increible mundo de la microbiologia del suelo. La vida microscopica del suelo esta presente practicamente en todo lo que respecta a nuestra vida cotidiana: desde el agua que bebemos, los alimentos que ingerimos, al aire que respiramos. El presente libro pretende transmitir al lector los fundamentos basicos de los organismos que habitan en el suelo, de modo que pueda apreciar lo que aportan estas formas de vida y de que manera intervienen en nuestro e...

The aim of this book is to highlight the utilization of algae for the development of useful products using environmentally friendly technologies such as supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE). Each chapter is a collection of comprehensive information on the present research on algae in different applications. The primary emphasis of this book however, is concerned with the products used for agriculture. Algal extracts were presented in this book also as a b...

Topics covered in this title include the tissue culture and genetic transformation of sorghum, examples of specific applications, transgene expression, and the deployment of transgenics in Third World agriculture.

The word "pesticide" is derived from Latin words pest -(which meansharm)and caedo (which means to destroy); it is the common name inchemical preparations for the destruction of organisms (pest) which cause damage to crops and livestock. By their nature, pesticidal substances are biologically active; they are capable of causing disturbances in the vital activity of living organisms of plant and animal origin. However, the degree of disruption of the vital activity of various organisms with the sa...

During the last six decades of the twentieth century, U.S. agriculture experienced great progress through the utilization of technological advances in machinery and equipment, pest and disease protection, nutrients, irrigation, breeding and genetics, and conservation. The question now arises, Can the United States sustain or even increase the rate of this progress, particularly in the crop and livestock sectors of the agricultural economy? To obtain the information needed to answer this question...

The production of Agaricus bisporus is a major, world-wide, highly mechanized process. Healthy crops are essential if yields, quality and profitability are to be maintained. Pests and diseases are a major cause of crop losses and this book covers their recognition, biology and control. New pests and diseases are described together with changes in the management of pest and pathogen populations. The book is fully up-to-date on the important cultural changes that have occurred in recent years. New...

Papers of the second International Symposium on Coconut Research and Development, held at Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod, Kerala, 26th-29th Nov. 1991 organized by the Indian Society for Plantation Crops.