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  • Towards improving the salt tolerance of soybean
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    Towards improving the salt tolerance of soybean

    Dr ailin liu ,  Dr wai-lun cheung ,  Dr wai-shing yung ,  Dr carol lee ,  Dr fuk-ling wong ,  Dr kit-wah siu ,  Hon-ming lam

    The growth and production of soybean, an important cash crop, are severely restricted by salt stress. Salt-tolerant soybean varieties can contribute to sustainable soybean production. This chapter describes different approaches to developing salt tolerance in soybean, including a study of germpla...

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  • Advances in agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles: focus on sensing applications
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    Advances in agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles: focus on sensing applications

    Dr tarin paz-kagan

    In the current chapter, we aim to present an overview of the advantages and limitations of UAV-RS platforms and their applications in PA. To properly review these applications, we formulated the following questions: What are the available UAV sensors for PA applications? How should one select the...

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  • Advances in understanding gut function and immunity in pigs
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    Advances in understanding gut function and immunity in pigs

    Prof bert devriendt

    The gut tissues are important for feed intake and at the same time provide a niche for the microbiota. As a consequence, the gut is exposed to a vast variety of foreign antigens and has evolved a cellular network to ensure gut homeostasis. Maintaining this balance is important for optimal growth ...

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  • Advances in understanding of sugarcane plant growth and physiology
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    Advances in understanding of sugarcane plant growth and physiology

    Dr frederick c. botha

    Crop yield in sugarcane is the result of how well the source leaves can supply the assimilates needed for the growth and filling of the harvestable plant. This is the source–sink relationship, which in sugarcane is still poorly understood. This chapter discusses the significant advances made in t...

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  • Advances in production and formulation of commercial microbial bioprotectant products
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    Advances in production and formulation of commercial microbial bioprotectant products

    Dr jacob eyal ,  Dr michael dimock ,  Dr josé joão carvalho

    This chapter reviews the recent commercialization of microbial bioprotectant products containing bacteria, fungi, yeast and bacteriophages for the control of plant diseases. The chapter also summarizes recent development activities of new bioprotectant products based on microorganisms or their me...

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  • Ageing, physical and chemical methods for improving tenderness and palatability of beef
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    Ageing, physical and chemical methods for improving tenderness and palatability of beef

    David hopkins

    The biochemical understanding of tenderization has helped in the design of more targeted approaches to improve beef tenderness through the utilization of specific enzymes. There has also been development of technologies such as SmartStretch™ and the Pi-Vac Elasto-Pack System®, which offer industr...

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  • Sorghum diseases and their management in cultivation: seedling, seed, panicle and foliar diseases
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    Sorghum diseases and their management in cultivation: seedling, seed, panicle and foliar diseases

    Chris little ,  Dr a. y. bandara ,  R. perumal

    As sorghum continues to grow in significance in large parts of the world, attention is given to the many different types of disease that can affect this crop, and how they might be successfully avoided or managed. All physical structures and tissues of the sorghum plant may become diseased with o...

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  • The role of perches in chicken welfare
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    The role of perches in chicken welfare

    Prof lars schrader ,  Dr julia malchow

    This chapter reviews the current knowledge on perching behaviour of chickens. During nighttime, chickens are highly motivated for elevated resting. During daytime chickens often perform vulnerable behaviours on elevated structures. Access to elevated structures can reduce fearfulness in chickens ...

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  • Yield gap analysis towards meeting future rice demand
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    Yield gap analysis towards meeting future rice demand

    Kazuki saito ,  Pepijn van oort ,  Ibnou dieng ,  Jean-martial johnson ,  Abibou niang ,  Kokou ahouanton ,  Amakoe delali alognon ,  Atsuko tanaka ,  Kalimuthu senthilkumar ,  Elke vandamme ,  Cyriaque akakpo ,  Zacharie segda ,  Ibrahim bassoro ,  Delphine mapiemfu lamare ,  Moundibaye d. allarangaye ,  Henri gbakatchetche ,  Belay a. bayuh ,  Famara jaiteh ,  Ralph k. bam ,  Wilson dogbe ,  Keita sékou ,  Raymond rabeson ,  Nianankoro kamissoko ,  Illiassou maïga mossi ,  Oladele s. bakare ,  Fanny l. mabone ,  Elie r. gasore ,  Idriss baggie ,  Geophrey j. kajiru ,  Komlan a. ablede ,  David nanfumba

    Rice provides 20% of the world’s food energy, and increased rice production owing to growing demand needs to be derived mainly from existing agricultural land. This requires reducing the ‘yield gap’, which is defined as the difference between potential yield and average on-farm yield obtained by ...

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  • Sustainable arthropod management for apples
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    Sustainable arthropod management for apples

    Dr elizabeth h. beers

    Management of apple pests is a necessary and challenging part of crop production. Cosmetic and phytosanitary standards entail management of key pests to very low levels which are biologically difficult to sustain. This chapter begins by covering key pests. Such pests drive integrated pest manag...

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  • Planting and cultivation of tea
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    Planting and cultivation of tea

    M. a. wijeratne

    Originating in natural forests characterized by warm and humid environmental conditions and nutrient-rich soils, tea’s growth and yield largely depend on climatic and soil factors of the land. Frequent removal of photosynthetically active tea shoots (harvesting) and periodic removal of leaf-beari...

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  • Advances in proximal sensors to detect crop health status in horticultural crops
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    Advances in proximal sensors to detect crop health status in horticultural crops

    Dr catello pane

    Advances in proximal sensing for targeted application of bioprotectants and biopesticides are crucial for more sustainable horticultural crop disease management. These technologies can help to identify spatial/temporal patterns of disease and provide data for forecasting models. They rely on opto...

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  • Pesticide use and biodiversity in soils
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    Pesticide use and biodiversity in soils

    Robert j. kremer

    Pesticides are applied to agricultural systems in high quantities relative to other synthetic compounds and therefore have considerable effects on soil microbial communities and their functions. Although pesticides undergo considerable evaluation for efficacy in controlling target pests in agroec...

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  • Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems
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    Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems

    Professor claas nendel ,  Professor claas nendel ,  Dr jacques-eric bergez ,  Dr julie constantin ,  Dr philippe debaeke ,  Dr hélène raynal ,  Dr sophie plassin ,  Dr magali willaume ,  Dr raphael martin ,  Dr roland baatz ,  Dr michael berg-mohnicke ,  Dr gohar ghazaryan ,  Dr sander janssen ,  Dr pierre martre ,  Dr cheryl h. porter ,  Dr carlos d. messina ,  Dr mark cooper ,  Dr ian p. holman ,  Dr paula a. harrison ,  Dr fulu tao ,  Dr taru palosuo ,  Dr reimund paul rötter ,  Professor davide cammarano ,  Dr johannes wilhelmus maria pullens ,  Dr ryan g. mcguire ,  Dr shannon m. mclaughlin ,  Dr tanisha l. waring ,  Dr kayley d. barnes ,  Dr sharon a. huws ,  Professor nigel d. scollan ,  Dr myriam adam ,  Dr gatien falconnier ,  Dr david berre ,  Dr katrien descheemaeker ,  Dr juliette lairez ,  Dr louise leroux ,  Dr charlotte weil ,  Dr justin a. johnson ,  Dr rebecca chaplin-kramer ,  Dr ignacio pérez domínguez ,  Dr jordan hristov ,  Dr christian elleby ,  Dr thomas fellmann ,  Dr andrea toreti ,  Dr thomas chatzopoulos ,  Dr ana luisa barbosa ,  Dr frank dentener ,  Dr arnout van soesbergen ,  Dr fiona jones ,  Professor mirek trnka ,  Dr rudolf brázdil ,  Dr lorenzo brilli ,  Dr hannah c. von czettritz und neuhaus ,  Dr sergi costafreda-aumedes ,  Dr petr dobrovolný ,  Dr petr holub ,  Dr karel klem ,  Dr matthias kuhnert ,  Dr luisa leolini ,  Dr marco moriondo ,  Dr nina muntean ,  Professor jørgen olesen ,  Dr markéta poděbradská ,  Dr vera potopová ,  Dr petr štěpánek ,  Dr otmar urban ,  Dr peter zander ,  Professor bruno basso ,  Dr neville millar ,  Dr lydia price ,  Professor fábio r. marin ,  Dr ivo zution gonçalves ,  Dr francisco j meza ,  Dr néstor m. riaño h. ,  Dr andrés j. peña q ,  Dr alexandre b. heinneman ,  Dr nereu a. streck ,  Dr alencar jr zanon ,  Dr murilo s. vianna ,  Dr evandro h. f. silva ,  Dr nilson a. vieira jr ,  Dr enli wang ,  Dr edmar teixeira ,  Dr bangyou zheng ,  Dr neal hughes ,  Dr karine chenu ,  Dr james hunt ,  Dr afshin ghahramani ,  Dr andries b. potgieter ,  Dr junqi zhu ,  Dr rogerio cichota ,  Dr neil huth ,  Professor soora naresh kumar ,  Dr bing liu ,  Dr zi ye ,  Dr yuan cao ,  Dr bo liu ,  Professor yan zhu ,  Dr ehsan eyshi rezaei ,  Dr sevim seda yamaç ,  Dr dilys maccarthy ,  Dr p. b. i. akponikpe ,  Dr f. m. akinseye ,  Dr m. ly ,  Dr e. c. timpong-jones ,  Dr i. hathie ,  Dr s. g. k. adiku

    This collection summarises the wealth of research on ways to improve models predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural systems, as well as their application to understanding impacts in particular regions.

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  • Monitoring and minimizing health risks related to pesticides
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    Monitoring and minimizing health risks related to pesticides

    Dr keith tyrell ,  Dr sheila willis ,  Dr stephanie williamson ,  Dr davo simplice vodouhe ,  Prof. anthony youdeowei

    Pesticide poisoning is a cause of many human deaths, either via deliberate self-poisoning or via occupational exposure. This chapter looks at monitoring exposure to pesticides and how to minimize human health risks related to their use/exposure. Following an introduction, a section on data-collec...

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  • Instant Insights: Feather-pecking in poultry
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    Instant insights: feather-pecking in poultry

    Dr nienke van staaveren ,  Dr alexandra harlander ,  Dr dorothy mckeegan ,  Thea van niekerk

    This collection features three peer-reviewed literature reviews on feather-pecking in poultry.

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  • Water management for rainfed smallholder farming
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    Water management for rainfed smallholder farming

    Prof christoph studer

    This chapter aims to show how small-scale farmers can use water more efficiently, productively and sustainably in rainfed production. We will first discuss general aspects of how water use in crop and livestock production may be improved – measures that are important and useful in both rainfed as...

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  • Management of diseases on banana fruit in the field
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    Management of diseases on banana fruit in the field

    Mr marc jackson

    This chapter outlines the management of bacterial and fungal diseases on banana fruit from a practical and real-life banana farmers perspective and can be used as a guide to identifying diseases occurring on banana fruit. Different options for control and prevention are outlined and discussed fro...

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  • Optimising the health of finisher pigs
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    Optimising the health of finisher pigs

    Prof edgar garcia manzanilla

    The growing and finishing phase is often seen as the simplest part of the pig production cycle in commercial farms. The target is to have the pigs ready for slaughter at the expected weight and age with the minimum variability on weights and avoiding production tails. This is probably easier said...

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  • Developing decision-support systems for crop rotations
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    Developing decision-support systems for crop rotations

    Dr zia mehrabi

    Crop rotations have formed a fundamental component of agricultural systems for millennia. Improved decision support systems for crop rotations hold great potential for improving soils and agricultural sustainability. New opportunities exist to gather and collect on farm data at unprecedented tem...

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  • Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2
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    Advances in conservation agriculture volume 2

    Prof amir kassam ,  Prof amir kassam ,  Dr laila kassam ,  Dr muhammad farooq ,  Dr ahmad nawaz ,  Dr yashpal singh saharawat ,  Dr timothy reeves ,  Professor kadambot siddique ,  Prof michele pisante ,  Dr angelica galieni ,  Professor gottlieb basch ,  Dr theodor friedrich ,  Dr fabio stagnari ,  Dr fernando teixeira ,  Professor sjoerd w. duiker ,  Prof z. r. khan ,  Dr a. w. murage ,  Dr j. o. pittchar ,  Dr c. a. o. midega ,  Dr stephane boulakia ,  Dr florent tivet ,  Dr olivier husson ,  Dr lucien séguy ,  Prof joão carlos m. sá ,  Prof rattan lal ,  Dr ademir de oliveira ferreira ,  Dr clever briedis ,  Dr thiago massao inagaki ,  Dr daniel potma gonçalves ,  Dr jucimare romaniw ,  Mr scott day ,  Dr ademir calegari ,  Dr alessandra santos ,  Dr marcus cremonesi ,  Dr lilianne maia ,  Dr wilian demetrio ,  Dr marie l. c. bartz ,  Professor emilio j. gonzález-sánchez ,  Dr oscar veroz-gonzalez ,  Dr manuel morena-garcia ,  Dr rafaela ordoñez-fernandez ,  Dr jesus a. gil-ribes ,  Dr julio roman-vazquez ,  Dr antonio holgado-cabrera ,  Dr gordon conway ,  Dr saidi mkomwa ,  Dr paula triviño-tarradas ,  Dr antonio miranda-fuentes ,  Dr francisco marquez-garcia ,  Dr rosa m. carbonell-bojollo ,  Dr patrick c. wall ,  Dr christian thierfelder ,  Dr peter hobbs ,  Dr jon hellin ,  Dr bram govaerts ,  Prof rafael fuentes llanillo ,  Dr tiago santos telles ,  Dr dimas soares junior ,  Dr sara kaweesa ,  Dr anne-marie b. mayer ,  Dr tom goddard ,  Dr hongwen li ,  Dr ivo mello ,  Dr francis shaxson ,  Prof telmo jorge carneiro amado ,  Dr carlos alexandre costa crusciol ,  Dr claudio hideo martins da costa ,  Dr otávio dos anjos leal ,  Dr luan pierre pott

    Volume 2 reviews research on optimising Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices and their benefits. Chapters cover soil management, crop nutrition and irrigation, pest and disease management, as well as broader issues such as managing carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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  • Maximizing the efficiency of ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP) regeneration to optimize photosynthesis in crops
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    Maximizing the efficiency of ribulose bisphosphate (rubp) regeneration to optimize photosynthesis in crops

    Prof thomas d. sharkey

    Photosynthesis provides the carbon and energy for crop growth and many investigators are working to improve photosynthesis in the expectation that that will improve crop growth. There are many component processes to photosynthesis. One grouping of processes can be used to predict responses to the...

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  • Key issues in the regulation of microbial bioprotectants in the European Union: challenges and solutions to achieve more sustainable crop protection
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    Key issues in the regulation of microbial bioprotectants in the european union: challenges and solutions to achieve more sustainable crop protection

    Dr rüdiger hauschild ,  Dr willem j. ravensberg

    Microbial bioprotectants, like chemical pesticides, are required to pass a risk assessment and risk management procedure prior to use in plant protection, which in many countries is an obstacle for market access, in particular, the European Union. Administrative issues and data requirements, adap...

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  • Whole-farm system models in practice: diverse applications
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    Whole-farm system models in practice: diverse applications

    Dr alison m. laing ,  Dr cam k. mcdonald ,  Dr andrew j. ash ,  Dr diane b. prestwidge ,  Prof holger meinke

    The challenges of contemporary agriculture are causing farmers to seek models of whole-farm goals, which requires mathematically-based modeling grounded in the latest scientific understanding of animal growth and reproduction, crop physiology, soil and environmental sciences, as well as economics...

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  • Instant Insights: Zero/no-till cultivation
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    Instant insights: zero/no-till cultivation

    Dr alison hamm ,  Dr daniel k. manter ,  Dr theodor friedrich ,  Prof michele pisante ,  Dr angelica galieni ,  Professor gottlieb basch ,  Dr fabio stagnari ,  Dr mike kucera

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation of zero/no-till cultivation practices across agriculture and the consequent effects on soil health, productivity and other soil functions.

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  • Advances in understanding invasive characteristics in weed species
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    Advances in understanding invasive characteristics in weed species

    Dr ahmet uludağ ,  Dr mehmet arslan ,  Dr i̇lhan üremiş ,  Dr necmi aksoy

    Genetic modifications are a well-known mechanism for understanding the evolution of weeds and invasive alien plants. Recently more attention has been given to epigenetic modifications in weed ecological genetics since epigenetic modifications can govern the ecological-adaptive potential of weed s...

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  • The economics of apple production
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    The economics of apple production

    R. karina gallardo ,  Hildegard garming

    Economic prosperity is essential to guarantee sustainability, and this chapter provides a cost analysis of apple production worldwide, including classification of production cost studies, an exploration of different cost study approaches and categories included in cost-of-production studies. The ...

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  • Egg washing to ensure product safety
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    Egg washing to ensure product safety

    Margaret sexton

    The structure of eggs poses specific problems for washing, especially in large commercial operations. However, washing is a valuable process, both to make eggs look clean and to reduce the bacterial load on the shell. This chapter reviews those properties of eggs that are relevant to the washing ...

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  • The impact of improving feed efficiency on the environmental impact of livestock production
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    The impact of improving feed efficiency on the environmental impact of livestock production

    Prof james k. drackley ,  Prof christopher k. reynolds

    This chapter examines the impact of improving feed efficiency on the environmental impact of livestock production. It starts by discussing the relation between greenhouse gases and dairy production, highlighting how important it is to the dairy sector to find ways of decreasing greenhouse gas out...

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  • Transportation and the welfare of poultry
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    Transportation and the welfare of poultry

    K. schwean-lardner ,  T. g. crowe

    A variety of factors before and during transport of poultry affect their welfare, with impacts ranging from slight discomfort to death. This chapter begins by considering the pre-loading factors which can eventually affect the birds’ welfare during transportation, and then reviews the physiologic...

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  • Advances in the use of Bt genes in insect-resistant crops
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    Advances in the use of bt genes in insect-resistant crops

    Dr salvatore arpaia

    Insecticidal toxins derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have been widely used as microbial pesticides to selectively control juveniles of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and soil-dwelling nematodes. Synthetic genes derived from different strains of Bt have been used to pr...

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  • Seed dormancy and germination: a critical update
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    Seed dormancy and germination: a critical update

    Dr henk w. m. hilhorst

    Seeds are the prime source of food in the world, not only from a nutritional point of view but also as the basis of crop production. A key requirement for farmers is vigorous and fast-germinating seed to guarantee a uniform crop of high yield. This is quite opposite to the natural behaviour of se...

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  • Measuring and improving the environmental performance of organic farming
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    Measuring and improving the environmental performance of organic farming

    Dr a. muller ,  Dr m. meier ,  Dr c. schader ,  Dr a. gattinger ,  Dr m. steffens

    There is a large and growing body of literature comparing the environmental performance of organic and conventional farming in specific settings, either on farm or product level. However, how one assesses ‘environmental performance’ is a complex and multifaceted question, and one-dimensional indi...

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  • Rice insect pests and their management
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    Rice insect pests and their management

    Emeritus prof. e. a. heinrichs ,  Francis e. nwilene ,  Professor michael j. stout ,  Buyung a. r. hadi ,  Thais freitas

    This book uses the unique expertise of leading rice entomologists from Africa, Asia and the Americas to provide the first global coverage of rice insect pests. The groups of insects discussed are : Root and stem feeders, Stem borers, Rice gall midges, Leafhoppers and planthoppers, Foliage feeders...

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  • Rainwater and floodwater harvesting for crop irrigation
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    Rainwater and floodwater harvesting for crop irrigation

    Dieter prinz

    Rainwater and floodwater harvesting are environmentally-friendly ways to utilize rainwater and surface runoff for irrigation, water storage and groundwater recharge. Water harvesting (WH) can also reduce flooding and soil erosion risk and can diminish impacts of climate change. This chapter discu...

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  • Understanding and improving the shelf life of tomatoes
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    Understanding and improving the shelf life of tomatoes

    K. wang ,  Prof. a. k. handa ,  Dr a. k. mattoo

    The shelf life of tomatoes is regulated via a myriad of physiological, biochemical and environmental processes. Tomato, a climacteric fruit, undergoes increases in respiration and ethylene production at the onset of ripening; once the ripening process is initiated it cannot be reversed. Ripening ...

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  • Chemical composition of soils: role in soil health
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    Chemical composition of soils: role in soil health

    Samira daroub ,  Dr claire friedrichsen

    Integrated nutrient management systems that use a holistic approach, using inorganic fertilizers as well as management practices aimed to increase soil organic matter, are needed to improve soil health. Management practices need to take into account differences in soil properties, climate and ava...

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  • Dairy cattle welfare and health: an intimate partnership
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    Dairy cattle welfare and health: an intimate partnership

    Prof clive phillips

    This chapter discusses the intimate partnership between dairy cattle welfare and health. It begins by examining the welfare implications of common dairy cow diseases such as lameness, mastitis, metritis, acidosis, ketosis and other production-related diseases. It also addresses the impact of subc...

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  • Managing soil health for grassland
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    Managing soil health for grassland

    D. barker

    Soil health is a holistic concept that includes all the processes affecting the ability of soil to provide the ecosystem services we require from grassland. The primary ‘service’ provided by grassland is forage for livestock, but additional secondary ‘services’ can include benefits such as enviro...

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  • Minimizing the environmental impact of poultry production through improved feed formulation
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    Minimizing the environmental impact of poultry production through improved feed formulation

    Hector e. leyva-jimenez ,  Christopher a. bailey

    Every year, millions of broilers, turkeys and laying hens are raised to supply eggs and meat to an increasing number of consumers. Along with the growth of the commercial poultry industry, waste generated in live production operations and processing plants has become an important environmental co...

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  • Ensuring the health and welfare of dairy calves and heifers
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    Ensuring the health and welfare of dairy calves and heifers

    Emily miller-cushon ,  Ken leslie ,  Trevor devries

    Pre-weaning morbidity and mortality rates in dairy calves remain a challenge for dairy producers worldwide. Health challenges, along with housing and management, all have an impact on calf productivity and welfare. This chapter will review strategies for managing calving, improving calf vitality,...

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  • The use of gene editing techniques in dairy cattle breeding
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    The use of gene editing techniques in dairy cattle breeding

    Dr alison van eenennaam ,  Dr amy e. young

    As the global population increases and incomes rise, global demand for dairy products is predicted to grow rapidly. The dairy industry will need to produce more product with fewer resources in the face of an ever-changing climate. Gene editing could complement existing technologies to increase pr...

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  • Recent developments in multi-trait selection in dairy cattle breeding
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    Recent developments in multi-trait selection in dairy cattle breeding

    Dr peter amer ,  Dr tim byrne

    Selection indexes, and their underlying breeding objectives, are widely used in dairy cattle breeding, and indexes tend to play an important role in selection decisions made by commercial farmers in many of the more advanced dairy industries within well developed economies. This chapter describes...

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  • Enhancing naturalness and human care in organic animal farming
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    Enhancing naturalness and human care in organic animal farming

    Dr lindsay whistance

    Organic farming aims to produce food in a way that respects the environment, the people and the animals involved. These aims are covered by the principles of Health, Ecology, Fairness and Care. Naturalness and human care are integral components of welfare for farm animals that are managed under o...

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  • Advances in postharvest management of horticultural produce
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    Advances in postharvest management of horticultural produce

    Prof. chris watkins ,  Dr j. r. olatunji ,  Prof a. r. east ,  Dr john delong ,  Dr robert prange ,  Dr jeffrey s. brandenburg ,  Dr elizabeth a. baldwin ,  Prof jeffrey k. brecht ,  Prof keith warriner ,  Dr mahdiyeh hasani ,  Dr p. truchado ,  Dr a. allende ,  Dr m. i. gil ,  Dr joshua b. gurtler ,  Dr xuetong fan ,  Dr tony jin ,  Dr brendan niemira ,  Prof elazar fallik ,  Dr susan lurie ,  Dr lisa jamieson ,  Dr allan woolf ,  Dr john golding ,  Dr sukhvinder pal singh ,  Dr marcin glowacz ,  Prof samir droby ,  Dr michael wisniewski ,  Dr davide spadaro ,  Prof kerry walsh ,  Dr nicholas t. anderson ,  Prof penelope perkins-veazie ,  Dr chris gunter ,  Dr marlee trandel ,  Dr i. uysal ,  Dr m. c. n. nunes ,  Dr j. p. emond ,  Dr s. mercier ,  Dr u. mccarthy

    Postharvest losses remain a serious problem in the fresh produce sector. This collection reviews advances in preservation and disinfection, monitoring and management techniques to optimise safety and quality of fresh fruit and vegetables.

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  • Controversies surrounding the impact of the fat content of beef on human health
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    Controversies surrounding the impact of the fat content of beef on human health

    Jennifer fleming ,  Penny kris-etherton

    Whether ‘red’ or ‘processed meat’ intake is related to adverse health outcomes in the US population and other developed countries is an often-debated concept. Beef frequently is a focus of such discussions because of its contribution to saturated fat in the diet. This chapter examines the evide...

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  • Improved energy and water management to minimize the environmental impact of dairy farming
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    Improved energy and water management to minimize the environmental impact of dairy farming

    Dr j. upton ,  E. murphy ,  Dr laurence shalloo ,  M. murphy ,  I. j. m. de boer ,  Professor peter groot koerkamp

    As demand for animal products such as milk increases, the livestock sector places increasing demands on already scarce resources such as land, water and fossil fuels, while also contributing to environmental problems such as climate change. In this chapter, we consider how dairy farms can manage ...

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    Understanding the genetics of poultry muscle development

    Dr wen luo ,  Dr qinghua nie ,  Dr xiquan zhang

    Poultry meat is one of the most consumed animal proteins by humans. Understanding genetic regulation of poultry skeletal muscle development is essential in improving poultry meat quality and production. This chapter summarizes current knowledge of the development of skeletal muscle in poultry. Th...

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