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  • Optimizing pest management in fruit cultivation
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    Optimizing pest management in fruit cultivation

    Prof. arthur agnello

    Tree fruit growers in temperate regions have faced challenges in managing the complex of arthropod pests present in these systems because of increasing pesticide regulatory restrictions, public concerns about food safety and environmental quality, and resistance to older pesticides by key pests. ...

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  • Proximal crop sensing
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    Proximal crop sensing

    Prof richard b. ferguson

    Today’s farmers are increasingly reliant on sensors for their farming operations. This chapter addresses the use of proximal sensors to evaluate a crop during the growing season. After briefly discussing the importance of sensors in modern farming and the crop properties which are of interest, we...

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  • Bacterial diseases affecting potatoes
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    Bacterial diseases affecting potatoes

    M. jennifer sjölund ,  Rachel kelly ,  Gerry s. saddler ,  David m. kenyon

    Bacterial pathogens continue to pose a significant threat to potato production through in-field yield losses, storage rots and reduced marketability. Ralstonia solanacearum alone is estimated to cause US$1 billion losses worldwide. In this chapter we review current knowledge on principal bacteria...

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  • Developments in diagnostic techniques for cereal pathogens
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    Developments in diagnostic techniques for cereal pathogens

    Dr sadia iqbal ,  Prof. michael g. k. jones

    Cereal pests and diseases can significantly reduce potential crop yields. Correct and timely identification in-field is key to their control. This chapter summarizes and evaluates some of the many available methods for detection of pests and diseases, ranging from classical methods of plant patho...

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  • Conserving and characterizing the genetic diversity of grain legumes
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    Conserving and characterizing the genetic diversity of grain legumes

    Dr paula bramel ,  Hari upadhyaya

    An increase in the production and marketing of grain legumes would help to diversify diets and improve human nutrition, as well as contributing to the sustainability of cropping systems and long- term soil health. However, the projected impacts of climate change and the current local adaptation ...

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  • Integrated pest management and biological pest control strategies in mango cultivation
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    Integrated pest management and biological pest control strategies in mango cultivation

    Stefano de faveri

    Integrated pest management (IPM) is the compatible use of various methods to control pests; methods include biological control, cultural control and chemical control. Chemical control should be used as a last resort and should be restricted to selective and less disruptive insecticides. This chap...

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  • Advances in breeding techniques for cereal crops
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    Advances in breeding techniques for cereal crops

    Prof frank ordon ,  Prof. wolfgang friedt ,  Prof. wolfgang friedt ,  Dr wei zhang ,  Xiwen cai ,  Dr matthew haas ,  Dr martin mascher ,  Dr miguel sanchez-garcia ,  Dr alison r. bentley ,  Dr w. tadesse ,  Dr s. tawkaz ,  Dr m. baum ,  Dr benjamin wittkop ,  Dr lászló csélènyi ,  Dr timm bernhard ,  Dr willem s. molenaar ,  Prof. albrecht e. melchinger ,  Dr philipp h. g. boeven ,  Dr c. friedrich h. longin ,  Professor thomas miedaner ,  Dr peer wilde ,  Dr andreas hund ,  Dr lukas kronenberg ,  Dr jonas anderegg ,  Dr kang yu ,  Dr achim walter ,  Dr matthew reynolds ,  Dr francisco pinto ,  Dr carly schramm ,  Dr yuri shavrukov ,  Dr peter anderson ,  Dr akhylbek kurishbaev ,  Dr satyvaldy jatayev ,  Dr jan bettgenhaeuser ,  Dr simon g. krattinger ,  Prof. roberto tuberosa ,  Dr marco maccaferri ,  Dr silvio salvi ,  Dr boby mathew ,  Dr mikko j. sillanpää ,  Prof. jens léon ,  Dr andreas maurer ,  Prof. klaus pillen ,  Dr susanne dreisigacker ,  Dr ernesto igartua ,  Dr carlos p. cantalapiedra ,  Dr ana m. casas ,  Dr patrick thorwarth ,  Dr jochen kumlehn ,  Dr stefan hiekel ,  Dr nagaveni budhagatapalli

    This collection reviews key advances in cereals breeding. It looks at advances in exploiting genetic diversity, the use of doubled haploids and hybrid breeding. The books also reviews developments in phenotyping, the use of genetic markers and techniques such as genomic selection.

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  • Theory of genome-wide association for QTL detection
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    Theory of genome-wide association for qtl detection

    Dr henk bovenhuis ,  Dr frédéric farnir ,  Dr pascale le roy

    To identify the regions on the genome that influence traits, Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) uses the information of Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) between a QTL and neighboring genetic markers. LD is created by mutations and recombinations, but populations mixture also generates gametic phase ...

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  • Entomovectoring: using pollinators to spread biocontrol agents
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    Entomovectoring: using pollinators to spread biocontrol agents

    Dr jari temmermans ,  Dr marie legein ,  Dr sarah leeber ,  Professor guy smagghe

    In this chapter, we review the most important factors for successful entomovectoring. Several previous applications of the entomovectoring technology using two commercially used bumblebee species, Bombus terrestris and Bombus impatiens, will be discussed. Finally, we will present a case study foc...

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  • Instant Insights: Intercropping
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    Instant insights: intercropping

    Laurent bedoussac ,  E-p. journet ,  H. hauggaard-nielsen ,  C. naudin ,  G. corre hellou ,  E. s. jensen ,  Dr eric justes ,  Abeya temesgen ,  Shu fukai ,  Daniel rodriguez ,  Gilbert g. sigua ,  Prof. diomy s. zamora ,  Dr samuel c. allen ,  Dr kent g. apostol ,  Dr shibu jose ,  Gary wyatt

    This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the use of intercropping across agriculture, focussing on its use to manage and improve soil health, as well as its use in temperate agroforestry systems to mitigate the sector’s environmental impact.

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  • Advanced hydroponics design for plant cultivation in cities
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    Advanced hydroponics design for plant cultivation in cities

    Dr giuseppina pennisi ,  Dr alessandro pistillo ,  Dr elisa appolloni ,  Dr francesco orsini ,  Dr giorgio gianquinto

    The growth of the world urban population altogether with the detrimental effects of climate change and resource scarcity are currently exerting extreme pressure on our food systems. Innovation in vegetable crop production is being driven by plant cultivation technologies that are independent of s...

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  • Models, sensors and decision support systems in greenhouse cultivation
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    Models, sensors and decision support systems in greenhouse cultivation

    Dr oliver körner

    Model-based decision support and automation in horticulture is accompanied today by the development of Industry 4.0, that is, today’s greenhouses are advanced production systems with the possibility of controlling the indoor climate (and with that, the crop) very accurately with intelligent algor...

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  • Advances in the understanding of nitrogen (N) uptake by plant roots
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    Advances in the understanding of nitrogen (n) uptake by plant roots

    Prof malcolm j. hawkesford ,  Dr william r. whalley

    Efficient use of nitrogen (N) by plants and particularly crops, is of global importance. In agriculture, high crop yields and protein content depend upon extensive N-inputs, however fertilizer N is costly to the farmer, and overuse can be damaging to the environment. A critical component of optim...

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  • The potential of somatic embryogenesis for commercial-scale propagation of elite cacao varieties
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    The potential of somatic embryogenesis for commercial-scale propagation of elite cacao varieties

    Siela maximova ,  Dr mark guiltinan

    Plant tissue culture can be used to speed up the development and deployment of genetically improved genotypes. Research conducted by multiple groups for over 25 years has led to the development of protocols for efficient somatic embryogenesis (SE) of cacao. This chapter provides a synthesis of pu...

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  • Digital tools for assessing soil organic carbon at farm and regional scale
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    Digital tools for assessing soil organic carbon at farm and regional scale

    Dr matt aitkenhead

    This chapter explores the digital tools for assessing soil organic carbon at farm and regional scale. It first reviews monitoring, reporting and verification frameworks, which is then followed by a discussion of the sampling strategies that can be used for soil organic carbon estimation. A sectio...

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa
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    Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa

    Prof. pathmanathan umaharan ,  Prof. pathmanathan umaharan ,  Dr ranjana bhattacharjee ,  Dr malachy akoroda ,  Brigitte laliberté ,  Michelle end ,  Dr nicholas cryer ,  Andrew daymond ,  Dr jan engels ,  Dr albertus bernardus eskes ,  Dr martin gilmour ,  Dr philippe lachenaud ,  Dr wilbert phillips-mora ,  Chris turnbull ,  Dr dapeng zhang ,  Stephan weise ,  Lambert a. motilal ,  Dário ahnert ,  Dr rob lockwood ,  Dr augusto roberto sena gomes ,  Dr george andrade sodré ,  Dr mark guiltinan ,  Siela maximova ,  Richard asare ,  Dr victor afari-sefa ,  Dr sander muilerman ,  Dr gilbert j. anim-kwapong ,  Didier snoeck ,  Bernard dubos ,  Jorge teodoro de souza ,  Dr fernando pereira monteiro ,  Dr maria alves ferreira ,  Dr karina peres gramacho ,  Dr edna dora martins newman luz ,  Ulrike krauss ,  David i. guest ,  Dr philip j. keane ,  Leila bagny beilhe ,  Dr régis babin ,  Dr martijn ten hoopen ,  Samuel orisajo ,  Christian cilas ,  Dr olivier sounigo ,  Dr bruno efombagn ,  Dr salomon nyassé ,  Dr mathias tahi ,  Dr sarah m. bharath ,  Dr m. a. rutherford ,  J. crozier ,  Dr julie flood ,  Dr s. sastroutomo ,  Mary a. egbuta ,  Darin a. sukha ,  Naailah a. ali ,  Dr christian bunn ,  Dr fabio castro ,  Dr mark lundy ,  Dr peter läderach ,  Dr eduardo somarriba ,  Dr luis orozco-aguilar ,  Dr rolando cerda ,  Dr arlene lópez-sampson ,  Amanda berlan ,  Dr verina ingram ,  Dr yuca waarts ,  Dr fedes van rijn ,  Paul macek ,  Dr upoma husain ,  Dr krystal werner

    Cocoa cultivation faces a number of significant challenges, including stagnating yields, a narrow genetic base, vulnerability to pests and diseases and environmental impact. This volume reviews how research is addressing these challenges in areas such as breeding and agronomy, understanding and m...

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  • Non-infectious disorders affecting potatoes
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    Non-infectious disorders affecting potatoes

    Andrew p. robinson

    There are a wide range of non-infectious disorders that can affect potatoes, generally as a result of imbalances within the plant caused by environmental stresses. Such disorders make tubers unappealing to consumers, and therefore have significant economic consequences. However, non-infectious di...

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  • Digestion of milk protein and milk fat
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    Digestion of milk protein and milk fat

    Dr aiqian ye

    Milk is a nutrient-rich and well-balanced food containing high-quality proteins with super-digestibility. The dairy products produced from milk make an important contribution to the total dietary supply of nutrients. However, the digestion and absorption of nutrients not only is based on the high...

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  • Integrating livestock production into whole-farm system models of mixed crop–livestock systems
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    Integrating livestock production into whole-farm system models of mixed crop–livestock systems

    Dr katrien descheemaeker ,  Dr lindsay bell

    Crop-livestock farming systems integrate various biophysical components with farm decision-making. Whole-farm system models help to understand the complexity arising from this integration and are useful tools to explore effects of interventions and to design improved systems. After describing the...

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  • Leveraging the QTLome to enhance climate change resilience in cereals
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    Leveraging the qtlome to enhance climate change resilience in cereals

    Prof. roberto tuberosa ,  Dr marco maccaferri ,  Dr silvio salvi

    Global food security relies on the release of cultivars more resilient to the negative effects of abiotic stress caused by climate change. Attaining this daunting goal will require a substantial increase in selection gain achieved so far with conventional breeding. To this end, the identification...

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  • Modeling climate change impacts on crop growth and yield formation
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    Modeling climate change impacts on crop growth and yield formation

    Professor davide cammarano ,  Dr johannes wilhelmus maria pullens ,  Dr pierre martre

    The aim of this chapter is to briefly illustrate current practices in modeling crop yield as a response to climate change and what has been learnt so far, especially in terms of multi-model assessment and comparisons. For additional information, readers are directed to the “Where to look for furt...

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  • The European spruce bark beetle
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    The european spruce bark beetle

    Dr sigrid netherer ,  Dr sigrid netherer ,  Dr maartje klapwijk ,  Dr maartje klapwijk ,  Dr simon kärvemo ,  Dr martin schebeck ,  Dr dineshkumar kandasamy ,  Dr marcela vanloo ,  Dr georg gratzer ,  Dr louise eriksson ,  Dr martin thalhammer ,  Dr christian temperli ,  Dr langning huo ,  Dr gernot hoch ,  Dr anne-maarit hekkala ,  Dr tobias frühbrodt

    This book reviews current research on understanding and controlling the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), one of the most important threats facing forests in Europe and North America.

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  • Advances in understanding the genetic and environmental factors determining seed longevity
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    Advances in understanding the genetic and environmental factors determining seed longevity

    Dr julia buitink ,  Professor olivier leprince

    Longevity is defined as the extent to which seeds can remain alive during storage. It is an essential seed trait that serves to bridge the time between seed abscission until germination, and underpins global agriculture and plant species conservation. Over the past decade, the research field in l...

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  • Predicting the effect of climate change on sugarcane cultivation
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    Predicting the effect of climate change on sugarcane cultivation

    Professor fábio r. marin ,  Daniel s. p. nassif ,  Leandro g. costa ,  Dr murilo s. vianna ,  Kassio carvalho ,  Pedro r. pereira

    Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) can be used to produce ethanol and biomass for energy generation, as part of a climate change mitigation policy. It is also an important crop from a food security perspective, with almost 75% of the world's sugar coming from sugarcane plantations. In this chapter we rev...

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  • Trends in exploring wheat and barley germplasm for novel disease resistance traits
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    Trends in exploring wheat and barley germplasm for novel disease resistance traits

    Dr sambasivam periyannan ,  Dr lee hickey

    Wheat and barley are major food crops grown for human consumption worldwide, yet the sustained production of these important cereals continues to be threatened by rapidly evolving fungal pathogens. This chapter highlights recent advancements in phenotyping, genotyping and other breeding technolog...

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  • Climate risk management in maize cropping systems
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    Climate risk management in maize cropping systems

    Daniel rodriguez ,  Caspar roxburgh ,  Claire farnsworth ,  Ariel ferrante ,  Joseph eyre ,  Stuart irvine-brown ,  James mclean ,  Martin bielich

    Climate variability affects the lives and livelihoods of farmers in many diverse ways, directly it affects farmers levels of food security, income and poverty; indirectly it affects farmers’ behaviours and decisions, as well as prices and markets. On the one hand climate variability it presents f...

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  • Cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus)
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    Cereal leaf beetle (oulema melanopus)

    Prof edward w. evans

    The cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus L.), native to Eurasia and introduced to North America, poses significant economic threat to crops of small grains across much of the northern hemisphere. Pest management is challenging because cereal leaf beetle outbreaks are sporadic and remain unpredict...

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  • Nutritional strategies to reduce emissions from waste in pig production
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    Nutritional strategies to reduce emissions from waste in pig production

    Phung le dinh ,  Andre aarnink

    Emissions of ammonia, odour and greenhouse gases (GHGs) from livestock housing and storage and application of manure are major concerns in the environmental sustainability of pig production. This chapter addresses dietary strategies to reduce these emissions. It examines in detail the relationshi...

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  • Breast meat abnormalities associated with ischaemic necrosis: dorsal cranial myopathy and deep pectoral myopathy
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    Breast meat abnormalities associated with ischaemic necrosis: dorsal cranial myopathy and deep pectoral myopathy

    Dr liris kindlein

    Deep pectoral myopathy (DPM) and dorsal cranial myopathy (DCM) have been reported at different processing plants worldwide, causing economic losses due to condemnation or downgrading of carcasses. Both myopathies have split fibres and are associated with ischaemic necrosis, which may indicate a p...

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  • The principles and processes of sorghum breeding
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    The principles and processes of sorghum breeding

    Cleve franks

    This chapter provides an overview of the basic principles and processes involved in the breeding of sorghum. A number of standard field operations are described, such as crossing, emasculation and harvesting, followed by a discussion of various methods of selection and topcrossing. After describi...

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  • Instant Insights: Managing arthropod pests in tree fruit
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    Instant insights: managing arthropod pests in tree fruit

    Dr giuseppe e. massimino cocuzza ,  Prof. arthur agnello ,  Dr elizabeth h. beers ,  Dr matthew j. grieshop

    This collection reviews the available methods for managing arthropod pests affecting global tree fruit production. Chapters consider the use of integrated pest management programmes as a more sustainable control method in the face of increasing pesticide regulatory restrictions and concerns surro...

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  • The rumen microbiota and its role in dairy cow production and health
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    The rumen microbiota and its role in dairy cow production and health

    Anusha bulumulla ,  Dr mi zhou ,  Le luo guan

    Ruminants have a complex microbial community inhabiting their gastrointestinal tract. In particular, rumen microbiota converts lignocellulose material to nutrients and energy, which dictate to the animal’s performance through a host–microbe symbiotic relationship. Owing to their significant role ...

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  • Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 1
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    Achieving sustainable production of eggs volume 1

    Prof. juliet r. roberts ,  Prof. juliet r. roberts ,  Prof. juliet r. roberts ,  Prof maureen m. bain ,  Kaustav majumder ,  Kaustav majumder ,  Professor yoshinori mine ,  Yasumi horimoto ,  Yasumi horimoto ,  Hajime hatta ,  Hajime hatta ,  Kylie hewson ,  Kylie hewson ,  Kapil chousalker ,  Kapil chousalker ,  Florence baron ,  Florence baron ,  Florence baron ,  Sophie jan ,  Sophie jan ,  Richard k. gast ,  Richard k. gast ,  Dr nicolas guyot ,  Professor deana jones ,  Margaret sexton ,  Margaret sexton ,  Pietro rocculi ,  Pietro rocculi ,  Steven vermeir ,  Steven vermeir ,  Dr koen de reu ,  Dr bart de ketelaere ,  Dr bart de ketelaere ,  F. cisneros ,  F. cisneros ,  C. hamelin ,  C. hamelin ,  Mitch kanter ,  Mitch kanter ,  Tia m. rains ,  Tia m. rains ,  Naiyana gujral ,  Naiyana gujral ,  Hoon h. sunwoo ,  Hoon h. sunwoo ,  Neijat mohamed ,  Neijat mohamed ,  Erin m. goldberg ,  Erin m. goldberg ,  James d. house ,  James d. house ,  Janet e. fulton ,  Janet e. fulton ,  Anna wolc ,  Anna wolc ,  Dr sophie réhault-godbert ,  Dr yves nys

    This collection begins by looking at egg composition and chemistry. This provides a foundation for discussing pathogenic contamination of eggs and methods for its prevention, detection and control. The book concludes by assessing factors affecting egg appearance, shelf-life, nutritional value and...

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  • Advances in dairy lipid science: physicochemical aspects
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    Advances in dairy lipid science: physicochemical aspects

    Dr daylan a. tzompa-sosa ,  Dr naomi arita-merino

    The physical properties of milk fat are intrinsically related to its chemical composition. This in turn is linked to animal feeding and to a lesser extent to genetics. Understanding the relation between these factors is utmost important to define the effects of animal feeding strategies on milk f...

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  • Trickle irrigation systems
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    Trickle irrigation systems

    Megh goyal

    Trickle irrigation is the practice of dripping water into soil at very low rates, using outlets placed closed to the plant to ensure targeted application to the root zone. Since the 1950s, trickle irrigation technology has become increasingly advanced and widespread. It is believed that the techn...

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  • Organic cocoa cultivation
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    Organic cocoa cultivation

    Amanda berlan

    The last two decades have witnessed a dramatically increased demand for organically produced goods. As a crop, cocoa can be grown successfully using organic methods, and demand for organic chocolate has risen in line with the overall growth in the organic market. This chapter offers a summary of ...

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  • Advances and challenges in sustainable peach production
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    Advances and challenges in sustainable peach production

    Prof luca corelli grappadelli ,  Dr brunella morandi ,  Dr luigi manfrini ,  Dr pasquale losciale

    By adopting precise management techniques, growers can reduce the environmental impact of fruit growing, without sacrificing quality and yields, while maintaining income. This chapter discusses how improvements in sustainable peach production can be achieved by an interaction among quite varied d...

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  • Proximal soil surveying and monitoring techniques
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    Proximal soil surveying and monitoring techniques

    Dr r. gebbers

    The understanding of soil fertility is fundamental to agricultural production. However, soils can show great variation both spatially and temporally. This chapter outlines the key challenges faced in monitoring such variation and the solutions that have been developed and further employed to aid ...

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  • Biodiversity reporting in the fast-food industry
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    Biodiversity reporting in the fast-food industry

    Dr dusan ecim ,  Prof warren maroun

    The fast-food industry has a significant impact on global biodiversity. The industry members are well placed to address these impacts through initiatives encouraging no-net-loss/net-gain biodiversity policies. A review of prior academic research identifies the key challenges faced by the fast-foo...

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  • Integrated weed management in organic cropping systems
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    Integrated weed management in organic cropping systems

    Prof. paolo bàrberi

    Weed management is a key challenge for organic production. Integrated Weed Management (IWM), that is, the combination of different tactics within a long-term management strategy, can keep weed abundance low. However, successful IWM relies on maximum diversification of the cropping system, which i...

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  • Practical application of integrated pest management to control cabbage root fly in vegetables
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    Practical application of integrated pest management to control cabbage root fly in vegetables

    Dr louis lippens ,  Dr sander fleerakkers ,  Dr femke temmerman ,  Dr annelies de roissart

    In north-western Europe cabbage root fly is considered to be an important pest of Brassica crops. Root fly larvae mainly feed on roots of Brassica vegetable crops causing damage and eventually crop loss. Pest damage consequently results in considerable economic losses for these crops. Due to the...

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  • Advanced detection technologies for weed scouting
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    Advanced detection technologies for weed scouting

    Prof cesar fernandez-quintanilla ,  Dr j. dorado ,  Dr j. m. peña ,  Dr d. andújar

    This chapter discusses advanced detection technologies for weed scouting. It starts by highlighting the current techniques that can be used to make optimising herbicide treatments more efficient, such as on-ground and remotely-sensed weed detection. The chapter then goes on to discuss the replace...

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  • Conservation Agriculture in South America
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    Conservation agriculture in south america

    Dr rafael fuentes-llanillo ,  Dr marie l. c. bartz ,  Dr tiago santos telles ,  Dr ademir calegari ,  Dr augusto guilherme de araújo ,  Prof amir kassam ,  Dr david roggero ,  Dr dimas soares junior ,  Dr edgard ramírez ,  Dr facundo capandeguy ,  Dr herbert arnold bartz ,  Dr jaime hernández-zamora ,  Dr ken moriya ,  Dr luciano dabalá ,  Dr maría cecilia ginés ,  Dr martín maria cubilla ,  Dr ricardo ralisch ,  Dr richard trujillo mendoza ,  Dr roberto peiretti ,  Dr rolf derpsch ,  Prof telmo jorge carneiro amado ,  Dr theodor friedrich

    This chapter describes the origins and current status of CA as well as NT and the NTS in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. These represent the top five CA countries with about 99% of the area under CA cultivation in South America.

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  • The use of bacterial probiotics and direct-fed microbials as dietary supplements in dairy cow nutrition
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    The use of bacterial probiotics and direct-fed microbials as dietary supplements in dairy cow nutrition

    Prof zhongtang yu ,  Dr amlan patra ,  Dr ming yan

    Direct-fed microbials (DFM), or probiotics, overall can improve feed digestion and/or fermentation, reduce the risk of rumen acidosis, increase milk production, enhance immunity and gut health, especially reducing calf diarrhea, and reduce mastitis in dairy cattle. The commonly used DFM include s...

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  • Biodiversity as a prerequisite of sustainable organic farming
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    Biodiversity as a prerequisite of sustainable organic farming

    Lukas pfiffner ,  Dr laura armengot

    Over the last century, the intensification of agriculture with high inputs of synthetic pesticides and fertilisers combined with monocrop specialisation has been detrimental to the diversity of genetic resources of crop varieties and livestock breeds, to the wild flora and fauna species and to th...

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  • The use of gene-editing techniques in breeding improved ornamentals
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    The use of gene-editing techniques in breeding improved ornamentals

    Dr bruno trevenzoli favero ,  Dr josefine nymark hegelund ,  Dr henrik lütken

    The aim of ornamental plant breeding is developing novel cultivars with new and improved traits. Innovation in this field has increased with the advent of precise genome editing. These techniques use nucleases to guide site directed mutagenesis e.g. the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palin...

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  • Improving welfare assessment indicators and protocols for poultry
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    Improving welfare assessment indicators and protocols for poultry

    Prof linda keeling

    There have been considerable advances in welfare assessment in the past decades. This chapter explains some of the terminology related to welfare assessment and why the emphasis is moving towards including indicators of poultry welfare taken on the birds themselves rather than from the environmen...

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  • Advances in cultured meat technology
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    Advances in cultured meat technology

    Professor mark post ,  Professor che connon ,  Dr chris bryant ,  Dr apeksha bharatgiri goswami ,  Dr james charlesworth ,  Dr joanna m. biazik ,  Dr mark s. rybchyn ,  Prof johannes le coutre ,  Dr neil stephens ,  Dr alexandra sexton ,  Dr johnny yeung ,  Dr yong quan tan ,  Dr siew herng chan ,  Dr kern rei chng ,  Dr calvin yeo ,  Dr jer lin poh ,  Dr teng yong low ,  Ms joanne sheot harn chan ,  Dr irfan tahir ,  Dr miranda stahn ,  Dr n. stephanie kawecki ,  Dr vicky andriessen ,  Dr bianca datta ,  Dr dwayne holmes ,  Dr lejjy gafour ,  Dr isha datar ,  Dr leonard nelson ,  Dr richard siller ,  Dr gareth sullivan ,  Dr andrew j. stout ,  Dr stefan schlößer ,  Dr philipp nold ,  Dr iris ianovici ,  Dr idit goldfracht ,  Dr yana shaulov dvir ,  Dr hagit shoyhat ,  Prof shulamit levenberg ,  Dr panagiota moutsatsou ,  Dr paul cameron ,  Dr ben dages ,  Dr alvin w. nienow ,  Dr gary lye ,  Dr eirini theodosiou ,  Dr mariana p. hanga ,  Dr jette feveile young ,  Dr a. abraham ,  Dr m. k. rasmussen ,  Dr s. skrivergaard ,  Dr m. therkildsen ,  Professor hanna l. tuomisto ,  Dr christina hartmann ,  Dr michael siegrist ,  Mr john p. ellersick ,  Dr elliot swartz ,  Dr reina ashizawa

    This collection reviews current advances in cellular agriculture, focussing primarily on the emerging research in cultured meat technology. The book considers the establishment of regulatory frameworks for cultured meat in the USA and Singapore and highlights the quality and sustainability issues...

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