Bøger i Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment serien

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.

This book provides an assessment of the understanding of soil microbiology and biochemistry as part of reclamation processes. It attempts to assemble more specialized literature on reclamation, where application of microbiological concepts has provided the understanding of the process.

Offers description of various soil-water phenomena and their applications to soil problems such as water retention and the flux of water in soils and clays. This title contains material on the physical properties of adsorbed water, the application of fractal theory to solute and water flows in field soils, and fingering research.

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.

Describes the sampling and analysis methods commonly used in modern soil laboratories around the world. This book contains three chapters on soil and plant test methods. It focuses on testing and analysis limited to edaphology, as opposed to edaphology and pedology as a whole in the ecosystem.

Written by a renowned professional with more than 30 years of experience in environmental sampling and analysis, this reference describes in unparalleled detail all the essential elements for the development and execution of a successful sampling plan at both contaminated and uncontaminated sites. The book covers presampling planning and decision-making, specific sampling situations, and correct sample labeling, and presents the framework and background for the sampling of any contaminated site. Presenting a wide variety of models, quality control procedures, and valuable troubleshooting methods, Field Sampling contains an abundance of topics never before covered in any other source.

This book reviews some aspects of soil biochemistry, including the biochemical turnover of specific elements and organic compounds in soil; the properties and functions of soil enzymes; and the structure, distribution and pathways of metabolism of organic compounds.

This book describes the interactions between soil minerals and microorganisms to more specialized areas such as the formation of desert varnishes. It is helpful for scientists and students who want to extend their knowledge of and research into soil biochemistry.

Explores the role of biochemical processes in the soil environment, particularly the activity of microorganisms, and the potential application of those processes to environmental biotechnology. This title highlights the application of molecular biology and microbial genetics to soil biology.

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.

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.

Explores the climate, soil zones, and altitudinal variation in soil formation. This book discusses the genesis, properties, classification, and land use of the soils. It covers the development of soil science in Indonesia, the geography and geomorphology of the archipelago, climate, vegetation, and mineralization and humification processes.

Explores the diversity of agricultural production systems including the geno/phenotype diversity through plant breeding. This title collects data on soil space diversity and species richness of microbial communities such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and Tardigrada. It focuses on lumbricid earthworms as distributors of microbes.

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.

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.

Outlining breeding techniques to augment the yields of the world's major crops, this reference analyzes the physiological and genetic basis for past and potential future increases in crop yields. It describes several genetic factors responsible for both yield potential and stress resistance in barley.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.