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  • Measuring wheat quality
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    Measuring wheat quality

    Ian batey

    Wheat quality depends on the genetic make-up of a particular wheat sample. The environment in which it is grown then influences this quality potential. This chapter describes the effects of protein and starch on wheat quality, and the way these components give rise to wheat properties considered...

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  • Peptides as novel biopesticides
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    Peptides as novel biopesticides

    Dr lin bao ,  Dr robert m. kennedy ,  Dr kyle schneider ,  Dr alvar carlson ,  Dr andy renz

    Venom peptides are small toxic proteins originated from animal venoms. They have attracted great interest as a route to develop the next generation of novel, effective and safe biopesticides. This chapter reviews the characteristics and discovery of a range of venom peptides. It shows how inhibit...

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  • The influence of gut microbiome on developing immune and metabolic systems in the young pig
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    The influence of gut microbiome on developing immune and metabolic systems in the young pig

    Prof. mick bailey ,  Emily porter ,  Ore francis

    The immune and metabolic systems of young piglets develop after birth, and the rate and type of development are strongly associated with the rate and type of colonisation of the intestine with bacteria. This chapter describes the enteric and mucosal immune systems of pigs and presents evidence fr...

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  • Marker-assisted trait introgression for wheat breeding and research
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    Marker-assisted trait introgression for wheat breeding and research

    Dr miguel sanchez-garcia ,  Dr alison r. bentley

    Trait introgression, the incorporation of a specific character, is a cornerstone of both wheat breeding and research allowing a specific line or variety to be improved for the character. Varieties can be improved by introgressing the trait of interest into their genetic background through backcro...

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  • Achieving sustainable turfgrass management
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    Achieving sustainable turfgrass management

    Prof michael fidanza ,  Prof michael fidanza ,  Dr david jespersen ,  Dr benjamin wherley ,  Dr michelle dacosta ,  Dr phillip l. vines ,  Dr ambika chandra ,  Dr trent m. tate ,  Dr douglas j. soldat ,  Dr paul l. koch ,  Dr john dempsey ,  Dr marco schiavon ,  Dr matteo serena ,  Dr adam w. thoms ,  Dr alex j. lindsey ,  Dr gerald m. henry ,  Dr rebecca grubbs-bowling ,  Dr joseph young ,  Dr james kerns ,  Dr benjamin a. mcgraw ,  Dr audrey simard ,  Dr garrett y. price ,  Dr matthew t. elmore ,  Dr aaron j. patton ,  Dr travis w. gannon ,  Dr james t. brosnan ,  Dr david gardner ,  Dr ed nangle ,  Dr charles fontanier ,  Dr chrissie a. segars ,  Dr alec kowalewski ,  Dr charles schmid ,  Dr ruying wang ,  Dr emily braithwaite ,  Dr cale bigelow ,  Dr stanley kostka ,  Dr erik ervin ,  Dr roch gaussoin ,  Dr frank rossi ,  Dr john cisar ,  Dr f. dan dinelli ,  Dr john pope ,  Dr james steffel ,  Dr dale j. bremer ,  Dr jing zhang ,  Dr mu hong ,  Dr dana g. sullivan ,  Dr david mccall ,  Dr kevin morris ,  Dr yuanshuo qu ,  Dr len kne ,  Dr steve graham ,  Dr michelle wisdom ,  Dr michael richardson ,  Dr paige boyle ,  Dr brian whitlark ,  Dr kai umeda ,  Dr bernhard r. leinauer ,  Dr cole thompson ,  Dr elizabeth guertal ,  Dr pauric mcgroary ,  Prof bryan g. hopkins

    This collection summarises and reviews the wealth of recent research addressing key challenges facing the turfgrass industry, including the need to reduce its carbon footprint and contribution to climate change.

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  • Possible use of allelochemicals in integrated pest management (IPM)
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    Possible use of allelochemicals in integrated pest management (ipm)

    Prof toby bruce

    Allelochemicals are produced and released into the environment by one species and have an effect on another species. They include attractants, repellents and toxic defence compounds which could provide valuable tools for use in IPM. There have been successes with botanical pesticides such as neem...

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  • Advances in monitoring forest growth and health
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    Advances in monitoring forest growth and health

    Dr andrew lister

    Information derived from monitoring the status of and trends in forest resources is a critical tool for policymakers, managers, and other environmental decision makers. Advances in forest monitoring technology, particularly in the use of remote sensing, have helped deliver higher quality informat...

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  • Developing decision support systems (DSS) for farm soil and crop management
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    Developing decision support systems (dss) for farm soil and crop management

    Dr matt aitkenhead

    This chapter provides a review of decision support systems (DSS) in agriculture and addresses several key questions about them. Why are they important, and why are they necessary for the future? What kind of systems currently exist? Different aspects of agricultural DSS design, implementation and...

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  • Instant Insights: Viral diseases affecting pigs
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    Instant insights: viral diseases affecting pigs

    Prof alejandro ramirez ,  Prof joaquim segalés ,  Professor raymond (bob) rowland ,  Carla correia-gomes

    This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on viral diseases affecting pigs.

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  • Optimizing yields in tomato cultivation: maximizing tomato plant use of resources
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    Optimizing yields in tomato cultivation: maximizing tomato plant use of resources

    V. s. almeida ,  F. t. delazari ,  C. nick ,  W. l. araújo ,  D. j. h. silva

    The operation of leaf stomata affects a plant’s photosynthesis, transpiration and respiration, and allows vegetable dry matter to be produced, which is required for production of the tomato fruit. The opening and closing of the stomata can be affected by various factors, and this in turn can have...

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  • Developments in automated monitoring of livestock fertility/pregnancy
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    Developments in automated monitoring of livestock fertility/pregnancy

    Dr michael iwersen ,  Dr marc drillich

    Livestock production has been characterized by the intensification and specialization of production leading to larger farms and, hence, to more animals per farm worker. Detecting cows in estrus and getting cows pregnant are two of the major challenges in dairy herd management. In addition to the ...

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  • Incentivizing sustainable production practices: improving and scaling extension, certification, carbon markets and other incentive systems
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    Incentivizing sustainable production practices: improving and scaling extension, certification, carbon markets and other incentive systems

    Dr christine negra ,  Dr tanja havemann

    In the absence of subsidies and secure land ownership, farmers often have weak incentives to adopt sustainable production practices. Potential means to change that include improved extension services, certification schemes, access to finance, and results-based payments (e.g. for carbon offset cre...

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  • Commercial poultry production and gut function: a historical perspective
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    Commercial poultry production and gut function: a historical perspective

    Dr dana k. dittoe ,  Dr steven c. ricke ,  Dr aaron kiess

    In the United States, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, poultry production was only a side operation for many farmers; however, by the 1930s a commercial poultry industry began to flourish. Certainly, today’s poultry industry would never have developed without the many advances tha...

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  • Nematode pests of potatoes
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    Nematode pests of potatoes

    Dr kim davie ,  Jon pickup

    Potatoes are particularly susceptible to attack from nematodes, with around 70 species from 24 genera several different reported. Nematodes reduce the value of the harvested crop by affecting yield, tuber size and marketability or indirectly through the transmission of viruses. After introducing ...

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of tropical fruits
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    Achieving sustainable cultivation of tropical fruits

    Prof elhadi m. yahia ,  Dr patrick ollitrault ,  Prof. marcos david ferreira ,  Dr john golding ,  Dr john archer ,  Prof. robert w. jones ,  Dr pablo liedo ,  Dr santiago vergara-pineda ,  Dr lukasz stelinski ,  Dr muhammad usman ,  Dr muhammad mumtaz khan ,  Dr rashid al-yahyai ,  Dr bilquees fatima ,  Dr josé cuenca ,  Prof. luis navarro ,  Dr pablo aleza ,  Dr jayeni hiti-bandaralage ,  Dr alice hayward ,  Dr chris o’brien ,  Dr madeleine gleeson ,  Dr william nak ,  Dr neena mitter ,  Dr gary s. bender ,  Dr charles staver ,  Dr l. parera ,  Dr r. manimekalai ,  Dr s. sudarsono ,  Dr m. a. foale ,  Dr quang thien nguyen ,  Dr steve w. adkins ,  Dr pankaj kumar ,  Dr k. usha ,  Dr bhupinder singh ,  Dr noosheen zahid ,  Dr mehdi maqbool ,  Dr ajit singh ,  Prof asgar warsi ,  Dr s. shyamalamma ,  Dr s. priyanka ,  Dr g. s. k. swamy ,  Dr p. m. sampath ,  Dr xuming huang ,  Dr sunday o. s. akinyemi ,  Dr victor galán saúco ,  Dr sunil kumar sharma ,  Dr parmeshwar lal saran ,  Dr ravish choudhary ,  Dr ibrahim kahramanoglu ,  Dr serhat usanmaz ,  Dr turgut alas

    This collection reviews current advances in the breeding and cultivation of key tropical and subtropical fruits. Part 1 discusses citrus fruits whilst Parts 2 and 3 cover soft, stone and other fruits.

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  • Advances in understanding sources of pathogenic contamination of fresh produce: soil and soil amendments
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    Advances in understanding sources of pathogenic contamination of fresh produce: soil and soil amendments

    Dr alexis omar ,  Dr manan sharma ,  Prof kalmia e. kniel

    Biological soil amendments of animal origin (BSAAO) are essential in contemporary agricultural production to increase crop yield and enrich soil health. BSAAOs may introduce or extend the survival of microbial pathogens that may be transferred to crops. Climate and weather along with amendment ty...

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  • Improving the quality of apples
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    Improving the quality of apples

    Professor fabrizio costa ,  Dr masoumeh bejaei ,  Dr jennifer arthur ,  Dr margaret a. cliff ,  Dr hilde nybom ,  Dr gabriela ploscutanu ,  Dr matteo scampicchio ,  Dr soon li teh ,  Dr sarah kostick ,  Prof kate evans ,  Dr luigi manfrini ,  Dr alessandro bonora ,  Prof john cline ,  Prof zora singh ,  Dr vijay yadav tokala ,  Dr mahmood ul hasan ,  Dr andrew woodward

    This collection reviews the wealth of recent research undertaken on the factors which can determine the quality of apples, focussing on attributes such as texture and nutritional content. The book also considers how these attributes can be optimised at both the pre- and postharvest stages in the ...

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  • Conservation Agriculture in Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico
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    Conservation agriculture in central america, the caribbean and mexico

    Jose r. benites ,  Dr theodor friedrich ,  Dr roberto azofeifa rodríguez ,  Dr ariel espinoza salinas ,  Dr j. c. juárez lópez ,  Dr carlos andrés zelaya elvir ,  Dr jose escobar

    This chapter provides an overview of the actual level of Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption in Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. Estimated values in hectares under CA came from collaborators of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. The estimated total area under dif...

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  • Use of the secondary gene pool of barley in breeding improved varieties
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    Use of the secondary gene pool of barley in breeding improved varieties

    Dr matthew haas ,  Dr martin mascher

    Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare L.) is an important crop species and breeding efforts over the past century have resulted in agronomically advanced cultivars. These efforts have also resulted in reduced genetic diversity of elite barley germplasm, hampering the ability of breeders to improve...

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  • Current crop models
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    Current crop models

    Professor gerrit hoogenboom ,  Emeritus professor ken boote ,  Dr david fleisher ,  Professor armen kemanian ,  Professor tom sinclair ,  Professor bruno basso ,  Dr bill salas ,  Dr jim kiniry ,  Professor benjamin dumont ,  Dr myriam adam ,  Dr xinyou yin ,  Dr allard de wit ,  Dr tom schut ,  Dr iwan supit ,  Professor frank ewert ,  Professor claas nendel ,  Emeritus professor dirk raes ,  Dr kiril manevski ,  Professor soora naresh kumar ,  Professor yan zhu ,  Dr liwang ma

    This book reviews the current range of crop models, the ways they explore the complex interplay between genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables and how these can be optimised to create a more sustainable and resilient agriculture.

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  • Developments in vaccines to protect poultry against diseases
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    Developments in vaccines to protect poultry against diseases

    Dr yongxiu yao ,  Prof venugopal nair

    As one of the fastest growing sectors of livestock farming, poultry industry plays a crucial role in global food security and poverty alleviation. One of the major challenges in sustainable growth of the sector comes from a plethora of diseases, including those caused by diverse set of viruses. W...

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  • Advances in understanding the biosynthetic pathways of milk lipids, their health benefits and bioactive properties
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    Advances in understanding the biosynthetic pathways of milk lipids, their health benefits and bioactive properties

    Dr nurit argov-argaman

    Milk lipids provide various nutrition and health benefits to the consumer. However, these components are not secreted by the mammary gland epithelial cells as isolated components. They are secreted as part of complex molecules such as triglycerides and polar lipids like glycerophospholipids and s...

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