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  • Instant Insights: Artificial Intelligence applications in agriculture
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    Instant insights: artificial intelligence applications in agriculture

    Dr leisa armstrong ,  Dr n. gandhi ,  Dr p. taechatanasat ,  Dr dean diepeveen ,  Prof stefano carpin ,  Dr ken goldberg ,  Dr stavros vougioukas ,  Dr ron berenstein ,  Dr josh viers ,  Dr jose blasco ,  Dr maría gyomar gonzález gonzález ,  Dr patricia chueca ,  Dr sergio cubero ,  Dr nuria aleixos ,  Prof anne-katrin mahlein ,  Dr jan behmann ,  Dr david bohnenkamp ,  Dr rené h. j. heim ,  Dr sebastian streit ,  Dr stefan paulus

    This collection considers the variety of applications of Artificial Intelligence in agriculture, highlighting its use in vineyards to improve precision irrigation, as well as its use in harvest-assist platforms in citrus orchards.

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  • Advances in image-based identification and analysis of crop insect pests
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    Advances in image-based identification and analysis of crop insect pests

    Professor daniel guyer ,  Dr charles whitfield

    This chapter reviews progress in developing automated image-based systems for identifying crop insect pests. It identifies the challenges in distinguishing insect pests in field conditions and ways they can be addressed. The chapter outlines key steps in image-based identification (image capture,...

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  • Instant Insights: Phosphorus uptake and use in crops
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    Instant insights: phosphorus uptake and use in crops

    Dr jiayin pang ,  Dr zhihui wen ,  Dr daniel kidd ,  Dr megan h. ryan ,  Dr rui-peng yu ,  Professor li long ,  Dr wen-feng cong ,  Professor kadambot siddique ,  Emeritus prof hans lambers ,  Professor john havlin ,  Dr a. j. schlegel ,  Dr richard j. simpson ,  Dr rebecca e. haling ,  Dr phillip graham ,  Prof andrew n. sharpley

    This collection reviews the process of phosphorus acquisition in crops and considers the key soil, root and microbial processes that can influence the success of it. Chapters also consider recent developments in breeding programmes to improve phosphorus acquisition efficiency, as well as the envi...

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  • Advances in the use of X-ray computed tomography in crop phenotyping
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    Advances in the use of x-ray computed tomography in crop phenotyping

    Dr stefan gerth ,  Dr norman uhlmann ,  Dr michael salamon

    This chapter addresses the technological parts of a CT system used for crop phenotyping. First, all of the hardware components are described and explained. Thus, it is shown how they are utilized for phenotyping purposes. After that, different system setups and ways of acquiring a CT dataset are ...

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  • Conservation grass hedges and soil health parameters
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    Conservation grass hedges and soil health parameters

    Professor humberto blanco

    Grass hedges, narrow (<2 m) strips of tall and stiff-stemmed perennial grass planted within croplands, are an innovative conservation practice to improve the health of the soils. Integrating grass hedges with food crops is a potential strategy to reduce erosion, improve soil health and wildlif...

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  • Advances in the use of ozone in the disinfection of horticultural produce
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    Advances in the use of ozone in the disinfection of horticultural produce

    Dr marcin glowacz

    Fruit and vegetables are recognised for their health-promoting properties, while at the same time being associated with numerous bacterial illnesses caused by foodborne pathogens. A sanitation step is crucial to ensure that the produce is safe for consumption. Ozone has been identified as a feasi...

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  • Research challenges in adapting grasslands to climate change
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    Research challenges in adapting grasslands to climate change

    Dr richard kipling

    Climate change poses many challenges to European grasslands, from droughts, heat waves and changing precipitation patterns in the south, to warmer winters and wetter summers in the north and increasing frequency of extreme weather events. This chapter reviews the probable impacts of climate chang...

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  • Variable-rate application technologies in precision agriculture
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    Variable-rate application technologies in precision agriculture

    Dr kenneth a. sudduth ,  Dr aaron j. franzen ,  Dr heping zhu ,  Dr scott t. drummond

    The approach of precision agriculture (PA) can be viewed as cyclical in nature, involving data collection, development of management plans, implementation of those plans in the field and evaluation of the effort. This chapter examines the characteristics of variable-rate application (VRA) control...

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  • Advances in breeding techniques for durable resistance to spot blotch in cereals
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    Advances in breeding techniques for durable resistance to spot blotch in cereals

    Prof ramesh chand ,  Dr sudhir navathe ,  Dr sandeep sharma

    This chapter reviews advances in breeding techniques for durable resistance to spot blotch in cereals. It starts by highlighting the spread, economic importance and the disease cycle of spot blotch. The chapter then goes on to examine the diversity of the pathogen and physiological specialization...

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  • Improving soil health
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    Improving soil health

    Professor william r. horwath ,  Professor william r. horwath ,  Professor michelle m. wander ,  Dr regina o’kelley ,  Prof david d. myrold ,  Dr muhammad adnan ,  Dr fazli wahid ,  Dr shah fahad ,  Dr muhammad arif ,  Dr songmei shi ,  Dr xin-hua he ,  Dr paula a. misiewicz ,  Dr magdalena kaczorowska-dolowy ,  Dr david r. white ,  Dr edward dickin ,  Dr richard j. godwin ,  Dr alison hamm ,  Dr daniel k. manter ,  Professor sieglinde snapp ,  Dr carmen m. ugarte ,  Dr dane w. hunter ,  Dr hero t. gollany ,  Dr cristina lazcano ,  Dr charlotte decock ,  Dr connie t. f. wong ,  Dr kamille garcia-brucher ,  Dr ashraf m. tubeileh ,  Prof. michael j. goss ,  Dr fiona a. nicholson ,  Dr anne bhogal ,  Dr alison rollett ,  Dr john r. williams ,  Dr m. j. salomon ,  Dr s. f. bender ,  Dr t. r. cavagnaro ,  Prof marcel van der heijden ,  Dr elisa zampieri ,  Dr iakovos s. pantelides ,  Dr raffaella balestrini ,  Dr richard c. hayes ,  Dr jason r. condon ,  Dr guangdi d. li

    This collection summarises current research on the effects of different management strategies on the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. It assesses the viability of these management strategies, including zero tillage and intercropping, as a means for improving crop yield, ecos...

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  • Host-rumen microbiome interactions and influences on feed conversion efficiency (FCE), methane production and other productivity traits
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    Host-rumen microbiome interactions and influences on feed conversion efficiency (fce), methane production and other productivity traits

    Dr elie jami ,  Dr itzhak mizrahi

    This chapter focuses on the recent discovery regarding the role of the ruminant microbiome on energy harvest, methane emission, and the potential genetic factors determining its microbial composition and selection.

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  • Spectral manipulations to control growth and quality of lettuce and other leafy greens in vertical farms
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    Spectral manipulations to control growth and quality of lettuce and other leafy greens in vertical farms

    Dr yuxin tong

    Selecting the optimal light environment for plant growth and development, and reducing the amount of electric energy consumed by lighting are both essential to improve the economic operations of vertical farming. Compared with photosynthetic photon flux density and light period, the effects of li...

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  • Micronutrients: advances in understanding molybdenum in crop production
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    Micronutrients: advances in understanding molybdenum in crop production

    Dr aruna nandety ,  Dr ali m. missaoui

    Molybdenum (Mo) is an essential micronutrient for plants. Its biological importance resides in its role in nitrogen fixation. Most soils contain Mo, but its availability is pH dependent. Understanding the dynamics of Mo in plant nutrition and in the plant rhizosphere is key to determining efficie...

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  • Advances in microbial control in IPM: entomopathogenic viruses
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    Advances in microbial control in ipm: entomopathogenic viruses

    Dr sean moore ,  Dr michael jukes

    Although there are several families of viruses known to include insect pathogens, only a handful are recognised to have species with any potential of being biopesticides. The majority of these are baculoviruses and are an ideal component of an integrated pest management (IPM) programme, as they a...

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  • Advances in the use of semiochemicals in integrated pest management: pheromones
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    Advances in the use of semiochemicals in integrated pest management: pheromones

    Prof gadi v. p. reddy ,  Dr anamika sharma ,  Dr angel guerrero

    Semiochemicals enable intra- and interspecific chemical communication in insects. Among them, pheromones are species-specific and have been used in the management tactics for control of many insect pests for the last 50 years. During this time, important advancements have been made in understandi...

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  • Nutritional considerations for soybean meal use in poultry diets
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    Nutritional considerations for soybean meal use in poultry diets

    Justin fowler

    The poultry feed industry uses about 50% of the soybean meal (SBM) produced in the United States each year. The meal is valuable to the animal feed industry because it is an excellent source of amino acids that would otherwise be lost to the human food chain after the oil has been removed from t...

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  • Instant Insights: Weed management in regenerative agriculture
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    Instant insights: weed management in regenerative agriculture

    Professor gottlieb basch ,  Dr fernando teixeira ,  Professor sjoerd w. duiker ,  Prof. paolo bàrberi ,  Matt liebman ,  John r. teasdale ,  Dr ludovic bonin ,  Dr r. leskovšek ,  Dr anna-camilla moonen ,  Dr w. smith ,  Dr m. sønderskov

    This collection addresses the emerging use of integrated weed management programmes throughout regenerative agriculture. Chapters review the sustainable control of weeds in Conservation Agriculture systems, as well as organic cropping systems.

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  • Cocoa plant propagation techniques to supply farmers with improved planting materials
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    Cocoa plant propagation techniques to supply farmers with improved planting materials

    Michelle end ,  Brigitte laliberté ,  Dr rob lockwood ,  Dr augusto roberto sena gomes ,  Dr george andrade sodré ,  Dr mark guiltinan ,  Siela maximova

    The availability of high-performance planting materials to cocoa farmers is an important part of a package of measures to improve the productivity of cocoa farms and thus the sustainability of the cocoa economy. This chapter reviews the methods, advantages and challenges of techniques of mass pro...

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  • Risk-based measures for prevention and control of African swine fever (ASF) in pigs
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    Risk-based measures for prevention and control of african swine fever (asf) in pigs

    Dr silvia bellini

    This chapter highlights the tools currently available for early detection of the presence of African swine fever (ASF) and biosecurity measures to prevent its spread, including adequate cleaning and disinfection (C&D) procedures.

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  • The role of crop cultivation in contributing to climate change
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    The role of crop cultivation in contributing to climate change

    Dr sonali shukla mcdermid ,  Dr david kanter

    While 20th century gains in agricultural productivity enabled rising levels of food security, these developments have also made the food system a major contributor to global climate change. Agricultural production accounts for over 80% of food system emissions, and nearly 60% of global non-CO2 gr...

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  • Maintaining soil fertility and health in organic crop cultivation
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    Maintaining soil fertility and health in organic crop cultivation

    Prof. c. watson ,  Dr e. a. stockdale

    Maintaining the health and fertility of our soils is central to the productivity of farming systems because of the key role that both health and fertility play in crop production. The links between soil health and the health consumers (both animal and human) and the wider ecosystem are important ...

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  • Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 3
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    Advances in conservation agriculture volume 3

    Prof amir kassam ,  Prof amir kassam ,  Dr theodor friedrich ,  Dr rolf derpsch ,  Dr tom goddard ,  Dr adam hayes ,  Professor sjoerd w. duiker ,  Jose r. benites ,  Dr roberto azofeifa rodríguez ,  Dr ariel espinoza salinas ,  Dr j. c. juárez lópez ,  Dr carlos andrés zelaya elvir ,  Dr jose escobar ,  Dr rafael fuentes-llanillo ,  Dr marie l. c. bartz ,  Dr tiago santos telles ,  Dr ademir calegari ,  Dr augusto guilherme de araújo ,  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 ,  Prof telmo jorge carneiro amado ,  Professor emilio j. gonzález-sánchez ,  Professor gottlieb basch ,  Dr julio roman-vazquez ,  Dr elizabeth moreno-blanco ,  Dr miguel a. repullo-ruiberriz de torres ,  Dr rachid mrabet ,  Dr haithem bahri ,  Dr omar zaghouane ,  Dr hatem cheikh m’hamed ,  Dr sherif ragab mohamed el-areed ,  Dr moamen mohamed abou el-enin ,  Dr lamourdia thiombiano ,  Dr kalifa coulibaly ,  Dr saidi mkomwa ,  Dr kofi boa ,  Dr robert b. zougmoré ,  Dr oumarou balarabe ,  Dr traoré salifou ,  Dr sylla halimatu ,  Dr sepo marongwe ,  Dr raymond nazare ,  Dr weldone mutai ,  Dr hendrik smith ,  Dr g. trytsman ,  Dr a. a. nel ,  Dr j. a. strauss ,  Dr e. kruger ,  Dr r. k. mampholo ,  Dr j. n. van coller ,  Dr h. otto ,  Dr j. g. steyn ,  Dr i. d. dreyer ,  Dr d. slabbert ,  Dr r. findlay ,  Dr e. zunckel ,  Dr l. visser ,  Prof isam bashour ,  Dr roula bachour ,  Dr nicolas haddad ,  Dr razan dbaibo ,  Dr kassem jouni ,  Dr faten adada ,  Dr yahya shakhatreh ,  Dr yahya bani-kalaf ,  Dr abedaraheem bawaliz ,  Dr iyad musallam ,  Dr faddel ismael ,  Dr mahmud huwaian ,  Dr nabeel bani hani ,  Dr mina devkota ,  Dr atef haddad ,  Dr yaser musa ,  Dr rabea al hayek ,  Dr abdulsattar asmair alrijabo ,  Dr irfan gultekin ,  Dr mohammad esmaeil asadi ,  Dr aziz nurbekov ,  Dr alisher mirzabaev ,  Dr muratbek karabayev ,  Dr nurali asozoda ,  Dr nasriddin khalilov ,  Dr dossymbek sydyk ,  Dr hafiz muminjanov ,  Dr tatiana semenova ,  Dr avetik nersisyan ,  Dr turi fileccia ,  Dr gagik mkrtchyan ,  Dr armen zakaryan ,  Dr imran jumshudov ,  Dr yagub guliyev ,  Dr alena abarava ,  Dr allan pineda burgos ,  Dr demna martsvaladze ,  Dr gulnaz kaseeva ,  Dr omurbek mambetov ,  Dr cholpon alibakieva ,  Dr boris boincean ,  Dr mihail rurac ,  Dr vadim bandurin ,  Dr luidmila orlova ,  Dr alexandr toigildin ,  Dr khalil safin ,  Dr muhammadi muminov ,  Dr jamshed sangynov ,  Dr shavkat juraev ,  Dr askarsho zevarshoev ,  Dr nicola kosolap ,  Dr oksana davis ,  Dr oleksandr zhuravel ,  Dr michail draganchuk ,  Dr alim pulatov ,  Dr josef kienzle ,  Dr sandra corsi ,  Dr yashpal singh saharawat ,  Dr mushtaq gill ,  Dr mahesh gathala ,  Dr tika bahadur karki ,  Dr d. b. t. wijeratne ,  Dr sayed samiullah hakimi ,  Dr neelam chaudhary ,  Dr md. enamul haque ,  Prof richard bell ,  Dr c. m. parihar ,  Dr harisankar nayak ,  Dr rajbir singh ,  Dr r. k. malik ,  Dr upendra singh ,  Dr raj paroda ,  Dr yuji niino ,  Dr victor b. ella ,  Dr florent tivet ,  Dr vira leng ,  Dr hoa tran quoc ,  Dr pascal lienhard ,  Dr pham thi sen ,  Dr thatheva saphangthong ,  Dr vang seng ,  Dr lyda hok ,  Dr manuel reyes ,  Dr stephane boulakia ,  Dr sim choon cheak ,  Dr hongwen li ,  Dr jin he ,  Dr jean-francois rochecouste ,  Dr john baker ,  Dr bill crabtree

    Conservation Agriculture (CA) seeks to understand the ecological basis of sustainability, whilst making better use of soil as a key resource in farming. Following on from previous volumes that discussed the systems, science, practice and benefits of CA, Volume 3 reviews the adoption and spread of...

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  • Ensuring and exploiting the genetic diversity of sugarcane
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    Ensuring and exploiting the genetic diversity of sugarcane

    Anna l. hale ,  Phillip jackson ,  James r. todd

    The majority of cultivars in current commercial sugarcane breeding programmes trace back to a few key interspecific hybrids that were developed during the early 1900s. Sugarcane breeders have expressed concerns about the narrow sampling of ancestral clones in modern sugarcane breeding programmes,...

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  • Advances in understanding agroecosystems ecology and its applications in integrated pest management
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    Advances in understanding agroecosystems ecology and its applications in integrated pest management

    Prof. casey hoy

    Achieving the theoretical goal of integrated pest management (IPM), maintaining pest populations at levels below an economic threshold through a combination of tactics, has so far proved difficult to attain. Production systems, particularly specialized commodity production based on economies of s...

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  • Managing grassland for forage production: an overview
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    Managing grassland for forage production: an overview

    Dr d. hennessy

    In temperate agriculture, grasslands play an important role in the provision of forage for livestock. Management of these grasslands is vital in order to ensure that high-quality feed is available. This chapter reviews the short-, medium- and long-term management of grasslands, including stocking...

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  • Instant Insights: Heat stress in dairy cattle
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    Instant insights: heat stress in dairy cattle

    Dr thuy t. t. nguyen ,  Prof. jennie e. pryce ,  Yvette de haas ,  John moran ,  J. m. k. ojango ,  R. mrode ,  A. m. okeyo ,  J. e. o. rege ,  M. g. g. chagunda ,  D. r. kugonza

    This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on heat stress in dairy cattle.

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  • Using life cycle assessment to compare intensive versus extensive agricultural systems
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    Using life cycle assessment to compare intensive versus extensive agricultural systems

    Dr. matthias meier

    The number of life cycle assessment (LCA) and LCA-based footprint studies comparing food products coming from different agricultural production systems, reflecting different production intensities, is rapidly growing providing an increasing amount of data for further analyses. This chapter examin...

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  • Improving data access for more effective decision making in agriculture
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    Improving data access for more effective decision making in agriculture

    Dr ben schaap ,  Dr suchith anand ,  Mr andré lapperrière

    With the increased amount of data that is collected on agriculture, we live in a time where data seems to be abundant. Through farm equipment and remote sensing, comes the potential for the development of new applications that can help food production and protect against worldwide food insecurity...

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  • Supporting smallholders in improving wheat cultivation
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    Supporting smallholders in improving wheat cultivation

    Tinashe chiurugwi ,  Simon kerr ,  Ian midgley ,  L. a. boyd ,  Johnson kamwaga ,  Peter njau ,  Terry van gevelt ,  Claudia canales ,  Max marcheselli

    We present an overview of how research and development (R&D) can support smallholder wheat farmers (i.e. wheat farmers with limited access to resources and services), reviewing published research and presenting a case study based on our ongoing wheat technology transfer project in Kenya. Glob...

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  • The Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative
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    The sustainable sugarcane initiative

    Biksham gujja ,  U. s. natarajan ,  Norman uphoff

    With ever-growing demands for sugar and difficulties in expanding cane area to meet such demands, increasing cane productivity per unit area, but with a reduced ecological footprint, has become imperative. The Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) addresses these concerns. This chapter describes...

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  • Reconciling agricultural production with biodiversity conservation
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    Reconciling agricultural production with biodiversity conservation

    Prof. paolo bàrberi ,  Prof. paolo bàrberi ,  Dr anna-camilla moonen ,  Dr anna-camilla moonen ,  Dr m. l. paracchini ,  Dr s. condé ,  Dr r. d’andrimont ,  Dr b. eiselt ,  Dr o. fernandez ugalde ,  Dr e. gervasini ,  Dr a. jones ,  Dr v. kovacevic ,  Dr r. oppermann ,  Dr a. orgiazzi ,  Dr m. van der velde ,  Dr c. polce ,  Dr c. rega ,  Dr c. van swaay ,  Dr p. voříšek ,  Professor g. r. squire ,  Dr corrado topi ,  Dr leonie j. pearson ,  Dr alicia cirujeda ,  Dr gabriel pardo ,  Dr audrey alignier ,  Dr léa uroy ,  Dr stéphanie aviron ,  Prof sylvain plantureux ,  Professor maría rosa mosquera-losada ,  Dr j. j. santiago-freijanes ,  Dr a. rigueiro-rodríguez ,  Dr f. j. rodríguez-rigueiro ,  Dr d. arias martínez ,  Professor anastasia pantera ,  Dr n. ferreiro-domínguez

    The first part of this volume assesses general issues such as landscape approaches, mapping and assessing the economic value of biodiversity. Part 2 reviews management practices promoting biodiversity such as field margins, hedgerows, improved pasture management and agroforestry.

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  • The use of exogenous enzymes to optimize gut function in pigs
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    The use of exogenous enzymes to optimize gut function in pigs

    Dr david torrallardona ,  Dr joan tarradas ,  Dr núria tous

    Exogenous enzymes are used in pig diets to improve the availability and digestibility of some non-accessible nutrients. As result of this enhanced digestion, short fragments of these molecules may become available in the distal foregut and the hindgut and modulate microbiota composition, gut barr...

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  • Understanding and preventing spoilage of cow’s milk
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    Understanding and preventing spoilage of cow’s milk

    G. lapointe

    Milk spoilage is essentially a result of inadequate control of the growth of microorganisms, combined with the activity of enzymes which have found their way into milk from production and processing environments. Microorganisms have developed strategies to survive and thrive in cold (psychrotroph...

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  • Developments in cell culture media for cultured meat applications
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    Developments in cell culture media for cultured meat applications

    Dr andrew j. stout

    Cell culture media is one of the key inputs for cultured meat production. It provides a physiologically favorable environment for cells, nutrients for cell consumption and utilization, and signaling molecules to instruct cell behavior. For all cell culture, media should be optimized towards speci...

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  • Improving grassland/forage quality and management to reduce livestock greenhouse gas emissions
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    Improving grassland/forage quality and management to reduce livestock greenhouse gas emissions

    Dr michael o'donovan

    This chapter reviews grazing management strategies that can contribute to reducing livestock greenhouse gas emissions. Strategies discussed include grazing season length and timing as well as sward structure and quality, including dry matter and clover content. The chapter also discusses the use ...

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  • Advances in organic dairy cattle farming
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    Advances in organic dairy cattle farming

    Dr mette vaarst ,  Dr mette vaarst ,  Dr mette vaarst ,  Dr stephen roderick ,  Dr stephen roderick ,  Dr stephen roderick ,  Dr lindsay whistance ,  Dr lindsay whistance ,  Dr lindsay whistance ,  Dr morten kargo ,  Dr morten kargo ,  Dr hannah jones ,  Dr hannah jones ,  Dr gillian butler ,  Dr gillian butler ,  Dr kerstin barth ,  Dr kerstin barth ,  Dr lisa morgans ,  Dr lisa morgans ,  Dr maria groot ,  Dr maria groot ,  Dr stig milan thamsborg ,  Dr stig milan thamsborg ,  Dr david rose ,  Dr david rose ,  Dr will simonson ,  Dr will simonson ,  Dr otto schmid ,  Dr otto schmid ,  Dr julie brastrup clasen ,  Dr margot slagboom ,  Dr hannah davis ,  Dr marie haskell ,  Silvia ivemeyer ,  Dr julie føske johnsen ,  Dr catarina svensson ,  Dr julie duval ,  Dr ariane maeschli ,  Dr michael walkenhorst ,  Dr nadine ravinet ,  Dr miguel peña-espinoza ,  Dr andrew williams ,  Dr helena mejer ,  Dr philip j. skuce ,  Dr juliette schillings ,  Dr eden keily-thurstain ,  Dr hannah stolz ,  Dr karlotta koch ,  Dr claudia meier ,  Dr a. muller ,  Dr c. schader ,  Florian leiber ,  Dr bernadette oehen

    This collection reviews the wealth of recent research on how organic dairy farming can best meet the key organic principles of health, ecology, fairness and care. The book also considers how the organic dairy sector is addressing challenges such as improving welfare and sustainability.

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  • Crop rotation: a sustainable system for maize production
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    Crop rotation: a sustainable system for maize production

    Bao-luo ma ,  Zhigang wang

    Modern agriculture has led to a simplification of maize-based cropping systems and the extensive practice of monoculture maize (MM). This has led to problems such as yield reduction and soil quality degradation. Meanwhile, the overuse of inorganic fertilizer to increase yields comes with a high e...

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  • Advances in measuring soil health
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    Advances in measuring soil health

    Professor wilfred otten ,  Dr felicity crotty ,  Dr jacqueline l. stroud ,  Dr andy taylor ,  Dr thomas freitag ,  Dr lucinda j. robinson ,  Dr duncan white ,  Dr mansonia pulido-moncada ,  Dr bruce c. ball ,  Dr wim m. cornelis ,  Prof alexandra kravchenko ,  Dr andrey guber ,  Dr ho-chul shin ,  Dr guillaume blanchy ,  Dr ian shield ,  Dr peter fruen ,  Dr timothy barraclough ,  Dr christopher w. watts ,  Dr andrew binley ,  Dr william r. whalley ,  Prof r. j. rickson ,  Dr e. dowdeswell downey ,  Dr g. alegbeleye ,  Dr s. e. cooper ,  Dr muhammad naveed ,  Dr francisco j. calderón ,  Dr andrew j. margenot ,  Dr scarlett bailey ,  Professor bas van wesemael ,  Dr e. a. stockdale ,  Dr paul hargreaves ,  Dr anne bhogal ,  Dr matt aitkenhead

    This volume begins with a review of advances in measuring soil biological activity. Parts 2 and 3 survey developments in measuring soil physical and chemical properties. The collection concludes by reviewing soil health indicators and decision support systems for improving soil management.

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  • Physiological challenges in poultry breeding
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    Physiological challenges in poultry breeding

    Prof. douglas d. rhoads ,  Dr robert f. wideman jr.

    This chapter discusses some of the different aspects of physiological limitations of concern in poultry breeding and production. It then covers research to map the genetic determinants of ascites, including recent successes in identifying the genetic determinants of ascites. The chapter shows ho...

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  • Instant Insights: Regenerative techniques to improve soil health
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    Instant insights: regenerative techniques to improve soil health

    Dr april leytem ,  Dr robert dungan ,  Dr mindy spiehs ,  Dr dan miller ,  Dr cristina lazcano ,  Dr charlotte decock ,  Dr connie t. f. wong ,  Dr kamille garcia-brucher ,  Dr iris vogeler ,  Dr peter sørensen ,  Ingrid thomsen ,  Professor friedhelm taube ,  Dr lucie chmelikova ,  Kurt-jürgen hülsbergen ,  Sebastian wolfrum

    This book provides a detailed overview of the use of regenerative techniques to improve soil health, including the use of compost and crop rotations.

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  • Soil inorganic carbon: stocks, functions, losses and their consequences
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    Soil inorganic carbon: stocks, functions, losses and their consequences

    Dr kazem zamanian ,  Prof yakov kuzyakov

    Carbonate-containing minerals comprise an additional form of soil carbon known as soil inorganic carbon (SIC). Though SIC stocks are large, they been disregarded in most studies to carbon sequestration. After reviewing the main forms of SIC (geogenic, biogenic and pedogenic carbonates) and the ch...

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  • Organic grassland
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    Organic grassland

    Thomas f. döring ,  Prof. ulrich köpke

    Organic farming makes up an increasing share of agricultural and food systems. Within organic agriculture, grasslands are of particular importance because of their multiple benefits to soils, crops, livestock and ecosystems. In this chapter, we review the multifunctionality of grasslands in the c...

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  • The role of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in preserving crop genetic diversity
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    The role of the svalbard global seed vault in preserving crop genetic diversity

    Dr åsmund asdal

    Genetic material in individual genebanks is potentially vulnerable to being lost (e.g. through conflict or a natural disaster). One important and simple security measure is to ensure that samples of these valuable genetic materials are conserved in more than one place. In this context, the Svalb...

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  • Dairy cattle welfare and other aspects of sustainability
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    Dairy cattle welfare and other aspects of sustainability

    Emeritus prof donald m. broom

    Welfare and other aspects of sustainability are becoming increasingly important in consumer purchasing decisions. This chapter introduces a number of key welfare issues affecting the dairy industry that need system change, including lameness, mastitis and aspects of calf management. Other major t...

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  • Doubled haploid production in wheat
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    Doubled haploid production in wheat

    Dr w. tadesse ,  Dr miguel sanchez-garcia ,  Dr s. tawkaz ,  Dr m. baum

    A doubled haploid is a genotype formed from haploid (n) cells through random chromosome doubling or artificially induced chromosome doubling methods. In vitro haploid production followed by chromosome doubling greatly enhances the production of homozygous wheat lines in a single generation and in...

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  • The role and management of soil mulch and cover crops in Conservation Agriculture systems
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    The role and management of soil mulch and cover crops in conservation agriculture systems

    Dr ademir calegari ,  Dr t. tiecher ,  Dr e. b. wutke ,  Dr l. b. dos s. canalli ,  Dr r. bunch ,  Dr d. dos s. rheinheimer

    This chapter discusses the main components of an adequate Conservation Agriculture system and the role of soil mulching within these systems. It highlights the use of different cover crops species to promote live or dead soil mulch cover. The chapter also reviews how cover crops effect aspects su...

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  • Managing dry cow udder health
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    Managing dry cow udder health

    Prof päivi j. rajala-schultz ,  Dr tariq halasa

    The dry period lays a foundation for a successful next lactation, especially from the udder health perspective. It is a high-risk period for acquiring new intramammary infections (IMI), but it also provides an excellent opportunity for eliminating existing subclinical infections. The way cows are...

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  • Supporting smallholders in maintaining soil health: key challenges and strategies
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    Supporting smallholders in maintaining soil health: key challenges and strategies

    David güereña

    Smallholder farmers are important stewards of global soil resources with strong linkages between livelihoods, global poverty and soil health There is no single method to engage with smallholder farmers in managing soil health, as they are a diverse group scattered across multiple geographies, soi...

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