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This work provides information on the detection, identification, and differentiation of all microbial plant pathogens - presenting modern protocols for rapid diagnosis of diseases based on biological, physical, chemical and molecular properties. It contains methods for the selection of disease-free seeds and vegetatively propagated planting materials and quarantine techniques for screening newly introduced plant materials.

Covers the fungal infection process, molecular host-defense mechanisms, and events leading to the suppression of these defense mechanisms by fungal pathogens. This book features chapters on disease resistance and susceptibility genes in signal perception and emission, and cell death signaling in disease susceptibility and resistance.

This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and updated, the new edition provides comprehensive coverage of topics such as genetic, physiological, and agronomic bases of crop growth. It covers the soil-plant-climate relationships that govern the growth and mineral nutrition of crops in temperate and tropical regions. Offering several new figures, references, and tables, the book contains two new chapters covering remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils and cover crops.

Offers findings and research breakthroughs in plant ecology. This book investigates plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum. It features chapters on molecular ecology as well as the ecology and evolution of plant crowns. It includes a concluding chapter that addresses approaches to generalization in functional plant ecology.

Running a productive agriculture system has always been about having the right tools and the know-how to pursue optimization and efficiency. This work teaches you how to create strategies using available software, spreadsheets, and Internet material to meet the challenges commonly faced in agricultural production, processing and management.

A textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in biotechnology in a wide range of fields concerned with plants. It describes the use of both endogenous and introduced biochemical regulators to manipulate plant responses.

Integrates basic biotechnological methodologies with agricultural practices, offering solutions to specific agricultural needs and problems from plant and crop yield to animal husbandry. This title presents and evaluates the limitations of classical methodologies and the potential of novel and emergent agriculturally related biotechnologies.

Offers comprehensive information on environmental issues in soil science. This work includes such topics as effects of agricultural operations on changing soils properties and the environment, beneficial organisms and their role in nutrient cycling, organic farming, advances in agricultural biotechnology, soil contamination, and soil conservation.

Offers an integrated presentation of the microbial, agronomic and recycling aspects of soil faunal potentials, emphasizing agricultural ecosystems and furnishing methods for modelling food webs. This text covers morphology, reproduction, abundances, basic requirements, competition, predation, nutrient cycling and phytopathological interactions.

Emphasizing the unpredictable nature of plant behavior under stress and in relation to complex interactions of biological pathways, this work covers the versatility of plants in adapting to environmental change. It analyzes environmentally triggered adoptions in developmental programs of plants that lead to permanent, heritable DNA modifications.

The field of humic matter research has undergone drastic changes in concepts and principles, and a second edition is now warranted to communicate these advances. This revised and updated edition continues the tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the genesis, extraction, properties, and impacts of humic matter on agriculture, industry, and the environment. Chapters examine organic matter; present concepts of humus versus humic matter; and explore the nature and distribution, chemical composition, characterization, electrochemical properties, agronomic and industrial applications, and medicinal and pharmaceutical applications of humic substances.

Updated to include 37 original chapters and making extensive revisions to the chapters that have been retained, 90% of the material in this edition of a bestselling reference is entirely new and continues to fill the need for a comprehensive, authoritative, and timely resource. With contributions from over 100 global experts covering the most recent important research findings, it details all photosynthetic factors and processes under normal and stressful conditions. It also addresses growing concerns about excessive levels and high accumulation rates of carbon dioxide due to industrialization.

Highlighting effective, analytical functions that have been found useful for the comparison of alternative management techniques to maximize water and nutrient resources, this reference describes the application of viable mathematical models in data analysis to increase crop growth and yields. Featuring solutions to various differential equations, the book covers the characteristics of the functions related to the phenomenological growth model. Including more than 1300 literature citations, display equations, tables, and figures and outlining an approach to mathematical crop modeling, Mathematical Models of Crop Growth and Yield will prove an invaluable resource.

Offers information on various phytoalexins of crop plants studied worldwide - describing experimental approaches to the research of specific plants and offering explanations on methods of isolation and characterization. This title supplies coverage of cotton, soybean, groundnut, citrus, mustard, grapevine, potato, pepper, sweet potato, and yam.

Weed management systems are provided for cotton, peanut, soybean, wheat, barley, oat, sorghum, rice, fruits, nut crops, and more. This title offers the fundamental information necessary for the development of weed management strategies for various major US crops using concepts that can be applied worldwide.

Stressing the potential application of biochemical processes in soil to environmental biotechnology, this work considers the vital role that such biochemical processes have in the environment - emphasizing the activity of micro-organisms in soil. It highlights the interaction of xenobiotics, such as pesticides, with soil organisms.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of photoassimilate partitioning and source-sink relationships, this work details the major aspects of source-sink physiology and metabolism, the integration of individual components and photoassimilate partitioning, and the plant source-sink relationships in 16 agriculturally important crops.

Features scientific, technical and practical information on mineral, organic and synthetic conditioners, as well as their beneficial effects on the soil's physical properties that promote optimal plant growth, maximize soil fertility, and enhance biomediation processes.

Exploring the role of enzymes in biogeochemical processes, this book explores the function, molecular biology, and biochemistry of microorganisms and their intra-and extra-cellular enzymes in soils and aquatic systems. It offers discussions on the use of enzymes to assess nutrient turnover, soil health, and environmental stresses.