Agricultural and Biological Sciences

World Cotton Germplasm Resources

Editor Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov
ISBN 978-953-51-1622-6
320 pages, July, 2014
All chapters downloaded 634 times.

Preservation of plant germplasm resources is vitally important for mankind to supply food and product security in the globalization and technological advances of the 21st century. Mankind preserved a wealth of available genetic resources of many plan ...
Organic Agriculture Towards Sustainability

Editor Vytautas Pilipavicius
ISBN 978-953-51-1340-9
282 pages, May, 2014
All chapters downloaded 1800 times.

Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promotes fair relationships and a good quality of life. This book is a compilation of 11 chapters focused on development of organic agriculture, the ...
Rice - Germplasm, Genetics and Improvement

Editor Wengui Yan and Jinsong Bao
ISBN 978-953-51-1240-2
316 pages, April, 2014
All chapters downloaded 1877 times.

Rice is a staple food for half of the worlds population mostly in Asia. Productivity of rice has largely been improved since the Green Revolution in 1960s. Further improvement of rice yield is necessary to keep pace with population growth, which is a ...
Sustainable Aquaculture Techniques

Editor Martha Patricia Hernandez- Vergara and Carlos Ivan Perez-Rostro
ISBN 978-953-51-1224-2
274 pages, February, 2014
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This book presents some innovative developments in sustainable aquaculture practices in the context of environmental protection and seafood production techniques. The chapters are written by experts in their respective areas, so that their contributi ...
Hydraulic Conductivity

Editor Vanderlei Rodrigues da Silva
ISBN 978-953-51-1208-2
218 pages, December, 2013
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This book is a research publication that covers original research on developments within the Hydraulic Conductivity field of study. The book is a collection of reviewed scholarly contributions written by different authors. Each scholarly contributio ...
Applied Bioremediation - Active and Passive Approaches

Editor Yogesh B. Patil and Prakash Rao
ISBN 978-953-51-1200-6
406 pages, October, 2013
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Bioremediation technologies are gaining immense credibility in the field of waste management because of their eco-compatibility nature. Biomass can interact and confront with water and soil pollutants in both active (live) as well as passive (dead) w ...
Advances in Agrophysical Research

Editor Stanislaw Grundas and Andrzej Stepniewski
ISBN 978-953-51-1184-9
408 pages, July, 2013
All chapters downloaded 15329 times.

The idea of this book was born due to the rapid increase of the interest in excellence of agricultural production in the aspect of both – the quality of raw material for food production as well as in the aspect of environment protection. Agrophysic ...
Crop Production

Editor Aakash Goyal and Muhammad Asif
ISBN 978-953-51-1174-0
198 pages, July, 2013
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Humans are depended on crops for food, fibber and more recently for fuel. Demands for crop production in rising because of increasing population, change in food habits and biofuel consumption. The book focus on challenges, progress and prospects of c ...