-
Advances in understanding immune response in dairy cattle
From the beginning, cattle have made important contributions to the field of immunology, including the development of the first Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine for human tuberculosis in 1921. In 1981 the first report of a biosynthesized polypeptide vaccine against Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FM...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Modelling crop growth and yield in tomato cultivation
Crop-growth simulation models have become important tools for researchers and growers for the purpose of assisting management and improving production. The CROPGRO-Tomato model described in this chapter is one of a suite of models within the modelling package Decision Support System for Agrotechn...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Quinone outside inhibitor fungicide resistance: selection patterns and the current situation
This chapter focuses on Qol fungicide resistance, specifically drawing attention to selection patterns and the current situation of Qol resistance. The chapter begins by describing the history of resistance and resistance mechanisms, then goes on to provide three case studies to describe differen...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Use of brackish and marginal water for irrigation in water-scarce areas
The lack of freshwater in arid and semi-arid regions makes brackish/marginal water a valuable alternative source of water for irrigation. The use of brackish water in irrigation could ensure high-yield, good quality, efficient and sustainable agricultural development if appropriate management str...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Sorghum cultivation and improvement in west and central africa
The diversity of sorghum cultivated in Africa attests to the African origin of this crop. Farmers in West and Central Africa (WCA) have developed strategies of using varietal diversity to minimize risk and maximize productivity in the context of complex and diverse adaptive challenges. This chapt...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Advances in poultry genetics and genomics
This collection begins by reviewing current challenges facing poultry breeding. It goes on to review recent research on the genetics of key production and functional traits. The book then summarises key advances in genomic selection techniques and concludes by surveying emerging trends such as th...
Read MoreRegular price £190.00Sale price £190.00 Regular price £190.00Unit price per -
Application of machine vision in plant factories
Plant factories have great potential for mitigating the contradiction between the growing global population and food scarcity. Machine vision plays an important role during automated food production, covering each production stage from raising seedlings, transplanting, management, harvesting and ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Requirements and features of cultivation system modules in advanced plant factories with artificial lighting
This chapter discusses the design and management principles of the cultivation room environment of a plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL), mainly based on its material and energy balance. Resource supply rates, product and waste outputs, and environmental factors can be accurately measur...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Key stages of embryo development in poultry
This chapter reviews the key stages in the development of the chicken embryo: from the fertilized oocyte, the zygote, through to the hatched chicken. The chapter also covers extra-embryonic tissues like sub-embryonic fluid, yolk sac, amnion and chorion-allantois membrane (CAM) which develop in sy...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Tropical tree domestication in agroforestry
Trees, whether occurring in wild stands or in agricultural landscapes, play a key role in the livelihoods of smallholders in the tropics. This chapter discusses tropical tree domestication in agroforestry, summarizing the authors’ contribution to the development of new tree crops in the tropics u...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Crop improvement in jackfruit
This chapter focuses on advances in breeding of jackfruit. It reviews the origin, distribution and varieties of the fruit. It then looks at uses and nutritional composition, before discussing breeding and providing examples of improved varieties of jackfruit.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Interactions between photosynthesis and the circadian system
The rising and setting of the sun provides a regular transition between two starkly different environmental conditions for photosynthetic organisms such as plants. Since photosynthetic organisms rely on light as both an environmental signal and an energy source it is beneficial for plants to resp...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Diseases affecting barley: net blotches
This chapter reviews the current knowledge of spot form and net form of net blotch of barley with an emphasis on recent genetic studies and their contribution to our understanding of the range of host-pathogen genetic interactions. Principal differences between the two forms of the disease are ex...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Mapping the soybean genome
The soybean is one of the most important grain legumes, but genetic mapping had been less advanced than in other crops, which limited modern soybean molecular breeding. This chapter discusses the significant progress in mapping the soybean genome that has now been made. Also highlighted are the u...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Instant insights: using crops as biofuel
This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on using crops as biofuel.
Regular price £37.99Sale price £37.99 Regular price £37.99Unit price per -
Water management for sustainable agriculture
There is increasing competition for water resources with declining aquifer reserves and lower rainfall in some areas due to climate change. This volume reviews research into topics such as more sustainable use of groundwater, more efficient irrigation techniques and water management.
Regular price £190.00Sale price £190.00 Regular price £190.00Unit price per -
Precision livestock farming and pasture management systems
Precision livestock farming (PLF) focuses on individual animal monitoring and management. Precision pasture/rangeland management is concerned with monitoring and dealing with landscape spatial and temporal variability whilst considering the influence that animals bring to these systems. This chap...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Assessing the cost of supplying water for agriculture: the food supply cost curve
As part of a ‘Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region’, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been proposing a practical tool for the assessment of investment projects called the Food Supply Cost Curve (FSCC). This chapter describes the c...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Pest management for urban agriculture
Agriculture in urban contexts largely differs from “conventional” and industrial agriculture. Pest management strategies must address a plethora of peculiar factors, such as: proximity to citizens living environments, microclimate and environmental conditions, plot and field size, multiplicity of...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Advances in cultivation of walnuts
Walnuts as a crop has expanded considerably in production and value over the last 30 years. There has been a shift in dominant production area from California to China. While the United States is still the world’s largest exporter of walnuts China now dominates world production. This chapter prov...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Advances in the use of entomopathogenic fungi as biopesticides in suppressing crop pests
Hypocrealean ascomycetes have a set of properties such as their unique mode of action by direct penetration through the cuticle, relatively ease to mass production, and their newly discovered ecological roles as endophytes and/or plant growth promoters which put them at the forefront of the globa...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Food safety control on poultry farms: effective control of campylobacter
The zoonotic pathogen, Campylobacter, is the leading cause of foodborne illness worldwide. It colonizes the intestinal tract of chickens, its primary host. In chickens, this pathogen is considered commensal and does not cause illness or have adverse impacts on production performance. A number of ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Humane transport, lairage and slaughter of sheep
Contemporary public concerns about and policy debates on animal production focus on conditions that guarantee food security, public health, environmental quality and animal welfare. This chapter reviews the main welfare issues associated with management of sheep post-farm gate, including transpor...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Spectral mapping of soil organic carbon
This chapter first reviews recent pilot studies covering limited areas often with exposed bare soils. Then we focus on the challenges for large-scale application of spectral mapping when the soil and parent material are heterogeneous and surface conditions are unknown. In order to deal with these...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Advances in understanding apple tree growth: the manipulation of tree growth and development
Recent research and development has investigated the factors influencing apple tree growth, with the ultimate aim of helping apple growers provide the market with fruit which is consistent in quality and which exhibits the features that consumers value, such as firmness, juiciness, colour and app...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Understanding smallholders in oil palm cultivation: a case study from sumatra
This chapter provides insights about oil palm smallholders in the Riau province of Sumatra, Indonesia, based on two recent sets of data. Based on two surveys conducted in 2013 and in 2015, the chapter characterises smallholders’ production structures, relying on the methodological framework elabo...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
New uses and processes for cassava
Cassava’s versatility, resilience to climate stress and huge potential for yield increase make it increasingly popular for both food security and industrial applications. This chapter investigates current uses of cassava and considers new processes which might be introduced to promote greater uti...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Fungicide resistance risk assessment
New fungicide active substances are at risk of losing efficacy due to the development of resistance in target pathogen populations. In the European Union, an assessment of resistance risk is required by regulatory authorities for the approval of each fungicide product This chapter will review the...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Exploring barley germplasm for yield improvement under sulphur-limiting environments
This chapter reviews genetic diversity in barley and its role in improving varieties, including adaptation to abiotic stresses. Sulphur is an essential macronutrient required in plants for normal growth and development. Its deficiency in agricultural soils reduces grain yield and grain quality tr...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Advances in understanding potato plant physiology and growth
Potato physiology determines how genetically-encoded developmental attributes interact with local environmental conditions, as modified through agricultural practice, to produce the final crop. This chapter highlights how physiological responses of potato to management choices made by growers and...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Instant insights: improving water management in crop cultivation
This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on improving water management in crop cultivation.
Regular price £37.99Sale price £37.99 Regular price £37.99Unit price per -
The use of microorganisms in integrated weed management
Biological control of weeds by fungal pathogens, bacteria and viruses has been studied for more than three decades. The aim is to suppress or reduce the weed population below an ecological or economic threshold. This chapter describes the role of biopesticides in weed control, historical accompli...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Economic assessment of integrated pest management (ipm) implementation
Besides reducing health and the ecological risks of pest control, integrated pest management (IPM) seeks to increase farm income. Economic constraints also act as barriers to adoption of IPM practices. An understanding of how IPM affects the farm “bottom line” is crucial to efforts to encourage I...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Considerations with using unmanned aircraft systems in turfgrass
In recent years, small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and advancements in remote sensing technology have provided alternative and more affordable means for monitoring crop health and stress than ground-based (hand-held or vehicle-mounted) or other aerial-based platforms (manned aircraft or sate...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Understanding the development of the gut microbiome in pigs: an overview
Living organisms continuously and intimately interact with commensal microbial communities referred to as microbiota and microbiomes. These complex ecosystems provide their hosts with vital services. The gut microbiome develops and diversifies after birth in pigs, as in all mammals. The diversifi...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Case studies on food safety control in the production of fresh poultry meat: effective control of salmonella in sweden
Swedish control of Salmonella in poultry is very successful, with rare findings of Salmonella in meat and almost no human cases linked to Swedish poultry meat. This chapter presents the Swedish system for controlling Salmonella in poultry, with the aim of highlighting insights which may be helpfu...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Adoption and spread of conservation agriculture in east asia
This chapter examines the adoption and spread of Conservation Agriculture in East Asia. Conservation Agriculture, which has been extended in East Asia for the past 15-20 years, is offering promising prospects of both enhanced yields, reduced cost and environmental services. The chapter begins by ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Genomic selection using bayesian methods
For decades, the method of choice the prediction of breeding values in poultry breeding programs was the Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP). More recently, genomic selection is quickly becoming the standard tool for genetic evaluation. One of the main challenges in the implementation of genom...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Lessons learned from operational and shuttered vertical plant farms
Vertical plant farming (VPF), defined as crop production utilising vertical space through stacking horizontally or in towers, is a promising and relatively novel type of controlled environment agriculture (CEA). The nascent sector has been riddled with complexities in economic viability, labour, ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Mapping and exploiting the barley genome: techniques for mapping genes and relating them to desirable traits
Barley is the fourth most cultivated cereal in the world and is thus an important crop in breeding. A large variety of traits are needed for resistance to various stresses as well as to meet the requirements of its several uses. To breed efficiently for those traits, identification of the causal ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Advances in optical analysis for crop phenotyping
Plant phenotyping technologies have been developing rapidly in the last decades. Among various phenotyping technologies, optical sensing such as RGB, multi-spectral and hyperspectral imaging have become popular and widely applied in different applications. In this chapter, these optical sensors a...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Biotechnology applications for integrated pest management
An exciting wave of discoveries in biotechnology is revolutionizing agriculture worldwide. Biotechnology tools and applications are offering great opportunities for integrated pest management (IPM) programs in agriculture. This chapter describes biotechnology applications for pest management incl...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
The potential role for tea in combating chronic diseases
Tea, made from the leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis, Theaceae, is a popular beverage worldwide. For the past 30 years, tea has been studied extensively for its beneficial health effects in the prevention of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases; reduction o...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Instant insights: irrigation management in horticultural production
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in irrigation management in horticultural production, focussing on more conventional growing systems, as well as emerging systems, such as soilless culture production.
Regular price £37.99Sale price £37.99 Regular price £37.99Unit price per -
Progress in understanding viruses affecting sugarcane
There are currently around ten diseases of sugarcane known to be caused by viruses. In recent years our understanding of these diseases has greatly benefited from access to low-cost sequencing technologies which have revolutionized virus discovery, improved our understanding of genetic variation ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Postharvest diseases of bananas and their sustainable management
This chapter discusses crown rot and anthracnose in detail, with a briefer coverage of the minor diseases such as mokillo fruit speckle, squirter and ceratocystis fruit stem-end rot. These diseases are discussed with regards to their causal agents, described and illustrated symptoms, disease cycl...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Mastitis, milk quality and yield
Mastitis is one of the most economically important diseases in dairy production and it is defined as an inflammation of the mammary gland. This chapter examines the impact of clinical and subclinical mastitis in cows on milk quality, and provides a detailed account of indicators of mastitis. In a...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Optimising integrated weed management in narrow-row crops
Sustainable management of weeds represents a major challenge for farmers. Herbicides offer the most effective curative technique and are widely used. Nevertheless, less reliance on them is necessary for environmental and technical reasons, and also in the face of societal pressure. Four detailed ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
