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This practical textbook provides essential information and easy to follow instructions for performing everyday surgeries. Common procedures are detailed as well as instrument preparation and use, theatre preparation, tissue handling, antibiotics, sutures and nutritional support, with a best practice approach.

Covers the biology and cultivation of citrus, considering the industry from an international perspective. This updated edition includes new findings of advances in molecular approaches to taxonomic studies, cultivars, physiological understanding of key citrus fruits and environmental factors affecting fruit quality.

Beginning with a description of the processes of evolution in native and cultivated plants, this fully updated edition reviews the origins of crop domestication and their subsequent development over time. It discusses all major crop species, from their origins to conservation of their genetic resources for future development.

This textbook introduces students to statistical epidemiology methods in a structured and accessible format. Drawing on the authors' extensive teaching experience, with defined learning outcomes, the suggested chapter orders can be tailored to the needs of students at both undergraduate and graduate level from a range of academic backgrounds.

This book includes green synthesis of nanoparticles by algae, diatoms and plants and the mechanism behind the synthesis of nanoparticles. It is a valuable resource for students, researchers and teachers of biology, chemistry, chemical technology, nanotechnology, microbial technology and those who are interested in green nanotechnology.

Transgenic plants are cultivated globally on a large scale, and mostly fed to domestic animals. Including over 150 feeding studies with food-producing animals, and covering first and second generation transgenic plants, this book is the first key resource of this information for researchers, students and policy makers.

Written from a practitioner's viewpoint, this book covers the everyday veterinary care and treatment of pigs. Suitable for veterinarians, veterinary students and pig industry personnel, this book takes a worldwide approach with notifiable diseases, poisons and diseases beyond the UK plus the dangers and control strategies of zoonotic diseases.

This is a paperback version of the 2008 edition of The Dictionary of the Fungi. This 10th edition, of the acclaimed reference work, has more than 21,000 entries, and provides the most complete listing available of generic names of fungi, their families and orders, their attributes and descriptive terms.

This book, the output of a three-year EU project involving 40 European experts, is an authoritative compendium of current knowledge on this amazing invasive plant and will facilitate improved management. It covers topics including taxonomy, genetics, reproduction, population ecology, and invasion dynamics.

The rangelands of China and Mongolia encompass diverse landscapes of global environmental and cultural significance. Pastoralists in these two nations share much common history and tradition, including their nomadic heritage and twin eras of collectivized production under different centrally planned socialist regimes. This unique...

Combining social, technological and natural systems to form its products, cruise tourism is an area of increasing study; with regards to the managerial challenges posed by the interaction of these systems. This book brings together industry know-how, managerial experience and academic rigour to address managerial challenges related to ocean cruises

This edition covers the viruses, bacteria and protozoan and helminth parasites that are transmitted between man and dogs, discussing population management, control disease agents and human-dog relationships. It also includes new chapters on the benefits of human-dog relationship and non-infectious disease issues with dogs.

Focusing on pathobiology and protective strategies against protozoan and metazoan parasites of fish, this book reviews the latest research on important parasites in particular those that cause financial hardships to the aquaculture industry.

Aimed at researchers, policy makers, agricultural ministries, donors, regional and sub-regional organizations, non-governmental development organizations and universities - this book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research and recommendations for handling future challenges in Africa's food security.

This book provides practical and innovative approaches to biosecurity surveillance. It explains the foundation and concepts behind surveillance design, with examples of methods and tools created to deal with surveillance challenges. With supporting case studies, it covers detectability, single and multi-species detection and risk assessment.

Amino acids play a role in the defence mechanisms and stress responses of plants, as well as in food quality and safety for humans and animals. This book collates chapters on plant enzymes and metabolism, modulation, molecular aspects, secondary products, ecology, the environment and mammalian nutrition and toxicology.

Drawing on almost 40 years of experience of irrigation in the developing world, Laycock introduces new ideas on the design of irrigation systems and combines important issues from the disciplines of social conflict, management, and political thinking.

Drawing on the author's world-wide experience and with contributions from professionals in the field, this book takes a comparative approach relating to different economic, political and temporal dimensions, examining established initiatives both in the context of the standards of the time and from a modern perspective looking back.

This book examines peppers from historical, genetic, physiological and production perspectives. Diverse examples of pod types and their variation in pungency are examined, production methods and constraints are discussed, and harvesting methods, post-harvest challenges and opportunities are explored.

Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes provides extensive information on food legumes' history, origin, evolution and botany, as well as breeding objectives and procedures, nutritional improvement, industrial uses, post-harvest technology and recent developments made through biotechnological intervention.

Highlighting parallels and contrasts between parasitic and free-living nematode groups, this book integrates strategies that enable nematodes to persist in the absence of food with tactics used by parasitic forms to survive the defence responses of a plant or animal host.

Taking an integrated and comprehensive approach, this book focuses on both the macro and micro aspects of destination marketing and management.

Using case studies from European countries, chapters discuss trust-building methods for food networks in an e-business environment. Key issues include the influence of cultural disparity and cross-border transactions upon major product groups such as meat, cereal products and fresh produce.

Using case studies from European countries, chapters discuss trust-building methods for food networks in an e-business environment. Key issues include the influence of cultural disparity and cross-border transactions upon major product groups such as meat, cereal products and fresh produce.

Explaining the physiological needs of turfgrass plants, this textbook outlines the management techniques that help supply those needs. A range of practices and methods to cope with stress under both normal and less than optimum conditions are discussed, providing the decision making tools for improvement based on changing environmental conditions.

Focusing on the principles behind production practices and their scientific basis, rather than detailed biological traits of each crop, this text outlines successes and failures in practices to date and sets out how the quantity and quality of horticultural produce can improve in the future.

Following an overview of the field, this textbook reviews key genetic concepts, provides an update on relevant genomic technology, and describes methods for assessing the magnitude of genetic influences on diseases and risk factors. It is an essential resource for graduate students in epidemiology and public health genetics.

Core principles are examined such as soil-plant relationships, genetic manipulation and diversity, yield and water requirements, as well as physical factors such as solar radiation, temperature and weather.

Updated, developed and reworked from Doug Kettle's seminal Medical and Veterinary Entomology, this major new reference presents vital information in encyclopedia format, with alphabetical entries and an extensive index to make key facts easy to find.