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  • Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
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    Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat volume 1

    Dr steven c. ricke ,  Dr steven c. ricke ,  Lisa k. williams ,  Tom j. humphrey ,  Dr sabrina vandeplas ,  Aishwarya pradeep rao ,  Jungsoo joo ,  Debabrata biswas ,  Isaac p. kashoma ,  Yosra a. helmy ,  Issmat i. kassem ,  Dr gireesh rajashekara ,  Navam s. hettiarachchy ,  Dr a.v.s. perumalla ,  Estefania novoa rama ,  Manpreet singh ,  Dr janne lundén ,  Ana luisa renteria-monterrubio ,  Alma delia alarcon-rojo ,  Ivar vågsholm ,  Jun lin ,  Sandra diaz-sanchez ,  Xiang liu ,  Irene hanning ,  Michael a. grashorn ,  M. s. lilburn ,  Prof cheorun jo ,  Dinesh jayasena ,  Kichang nam ,  Eun joo lee ,  Dong ahn ,  Yuan h. brad kim ,  Iksoon kang ,  Dr arthur hinton jr ,  Ilkka leinonen ,  Hector e. leyva-jimenez ,  Christopher a. bailey ,  E. j. van loo ,  R. morawicki ,  D. luján-rhenals ,  Dr r. michael hulet ,  Dr robyn alders ,  Robert pym

    Poultry production faces many challenges. This collection starts by reviewing safety, including detection, prevention and control of zoonoses in poultry flocks. It also discusses key aspects of quality such as meat flavour as well wider issues such as the environmental impact of poultry production.

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  • Sustainable production of temperate and boreal nontimber forest products: examples from North America
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    Sustainable production of temperate and boreal nontimber forest products: examples from north america

    Dr james l. chamberlain ,  Dr christine j. small ,  Dr michelle baumflek

    Understory plants and fungi are critical to healthy and resilient forest ecosystems, and many of the products they provide are essential to people for sustenance and income. However, nontimber forest products, and the plants and fungi from which they originate, are seldom included in forest manag...

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  • Developments in individual-animal feed efficiency monitoring systems for livestock
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    Developments in individual-animal feed efficiency monitoring systems for livestock

    Prof ilan halachmi ,  Dr ran bezen ,  Dr assaf godo ,  Dr harel levit ,  Dr victor bloch ,  Professor yael edan

    Feed remains a major cost in livestock farming. Accurate measurement of feed intake by individual animals offers the possibility of significant savings and more efficient production. The use of advanced low-cost cameras and innovative computer vision algorithms is changing feed-intake monitoring ...

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  • Advances in screening plants for edits and off-targets
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    Advances in screening plants for edits and off-targets

    Dr chun wang ,  Dr kejian wang

    Genome editing technology greatly accelerates the development of plant molecular research and crop breeding. However, accurately detecting mutations induced by sequence-specific nucleases between large-scale plants produced from transformation become a challenge. This chapter introduces some freq...

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  • Using remote and proximal sensor data in precision agriculture applications
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    Using remote and proximal sensor data in precision agriculture applications

    Dr luciano s. shiratsuchi ,  Dr franciele m. carneiro ,  Dr francielle m. ferreira ,  Dr phillip lanza ,  Dr fagner a. rontani ,  Dr armando l. brito filho ,  Dr getúlio f. seben junior ,  Dr ziany n. brandao ,  Dr carlos a. silva junior ,  Dr paulo e. teodoro ,  Dr syam dodla

    This chapter reviews key issues in using sensor data in precision agriculture (PA) and, in particular, their mode of deployment (proximal or remote). It assesses relative strengths and weaknesses of proximal sensing techniques, compared with imaging data typically acquired from remote sensing pla...

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of mangoes
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    Achieving sustainable cultivation of mangoes

    Dr victor galán saúco ,  Dr victor galán saúco ,  Dr ping lu ,  V. pérez ,  J. i. hormaza ,  Noris ledesma ,  Dr frédéric normand ,  Pierre-éric lauri ,  Maria hilda pérez-barraza ,  Jorge alberto osuna-garcia ,  Sisir mitra ,  A. bhagwan ,  John y. yonemoto ,  Steven a. oosthuyse ,  Victor manuel medina-urrutia ,  Jaime eduardo reyes-hernández ,  Gil virgen-calleros ,  Enrique pimienta-barrios ,  Marciano manuel robles-gonzález ,  A. g. levin ,  Prof kerry walsh ,  Zhenglin wang ,  Apiradee uthairatanakij ,  Pongphen jitareerat ,  Robert paull ,  Noam alkan ,  Laurent urban ,  Mônica maria de almeida lopes ,  Maria raquel alcântara de miranda ,  Claudine basset-mens ,  Dr sandra payen ,  Henri vannière ,  Angela braun ,  Yannick biard ,  Randy c. ploetz ,  Stefano de faveri ,  Anirudh kumar

    Mangoes are grown widely across Asia, Africa, the Americas and Southern Europe. This volume summarises the wealth of recent research on enhancing mango cultivation. Topics include developments in understanding mango genetics and breeding as well as cultivation, pest and disease management.

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  • Innovative agriculture management to foster soil organic carbon sequestration
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    Innovative agriculture management to foster soil organic carbon sequestration

    Dr maría de la luz mora ,  Dr jorge medina ,  Dr patricia poblete-grant ,  Dr rolando demanet ,  Dr paola durán ,  Dr patricio barra ,  Dr cecilia paredes ,  Dr marcela calabi-floody

    There is a need to develop new strategies to maintain and increase food production on degraded agricultural soils while decreasing the environmental impact of agricultural production. These strategies can be based on the concept of soil as a ‘natural bioreactor”, including modulation of Al/Fe com...

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  • Instant Insights: Viruses affecting horticultural crops
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    Instant insights: viruses affecting horticultural crops

    Various authors ,  Kenneth c. eastwell ,  Dr karel petrzik ,  Dr manuel rubio ,  Dr federico dicenta ,  Dr pedro martínez-gómez ,  H czosnek ,  A. koren ,  F. vidavski ,  Dr john e. thomas ,  Dr andrew d. w. geering

    This book offers a detailed overview of some of the key viruses affecting major horticultural crops, including apples, bananas, tomatoes and plums, as well as best practices for their management and control.

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  • Banana Red Rust thrips
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    Banana red rust thrips

    Mr frans wielemaker sanderse

    This chapter gives an in depth overview of what the pest management practices are in conventional banana production systems before outlining the alternative practices in organic banana production systems. An overview is provided of the challenges and limitations of Red Rust thrips control, while ...

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  • Disorder of digestion and metabolism in dairy cattle: the case of subacute rumen acidosis
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    Disorder of digestion and metabolism in dairy cattle: the case of subacute rumen acidosis

    Gregory b. penner

    Excessive fermentation in the rumen as a result of energy-rich diets decreases ruminal pH and leads to a digestive disorder called ruminal acidosis. This chapter examines one kind of acidosis, subacute rumen acidosis (SARA), and includes a detailed case study on SARA risk in the post-partum phase...

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  • Advances in understanding uptake and utilization of nitrogen in wheat
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    Advances in understanding uptake and utilization of nitrogen in wheat

    Dr ajit s. nehe ,  Prof m. john foulkes

    Wheat provides 20% of calories and protein consumed by humans. Cereals represent 56% of world fertilizer nitrogen (N) consumption and the wheat crop accounts for 18.2% of global use. Nitrogen fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and also has environmental impacts through N leac...

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  • Use of probiotics and prebiotics in pig nutrition in the post-weaning period
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    Use of probiotics and prebiotics in pig nutrition in the post-weaning period

    Ingunn stensland ,  John r. pluske

    Prebiotics and probiotics have attracted considerable interest as alternatives or replacements for growth-promoting antibiotics and/or some heavy metals in diets for pigs, particularly in the post-weaning period where the newly weaned pig is subject to considerable challenges in its new environme...

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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 understanding the nutritional and nutraceutical properties of apples
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    Advances in understanding the nutritional and nutraceutical properties of apples

    Dr gabriela ploscutanu

    This chapter reviews the latest scientific studies on the health benefits of apples, including fresh, canned, frozen, dried and/or juice (clear and cloudy) and their phytochemicals. Due to their popularity, accessibility and high nutritional content, apples have been the subject of many scientifi...

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  • Insect pests and their management in sorghum cultivation
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    Insect pests and their management in sorghum cultivation

    Bonnie pendleton

    Integrated pest management (IPM) is a practical approach that uses a combination of methods, including cultural, biological and chemical controls, to keep pest abundance or damage below economic loss. This chapter describes ways to prevent damaging infestations, as well as evaluate pest abundanc...

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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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  • Effect of far-red light on improving yields of tomatoes produced in vertical farms
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    Effect of far-red light on improving yields of tomatoes produced in vertical farms

    Dr yongran ji ,  Dr michele butturini

    Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the major crops cultivated globally and one of the most important vegetable crops in the world. While open field production is the primary method for producing freshly consumed tomatoes, protected environment production has seen rapid expansion in recent...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Vertical farming systems for urban agriculture
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    Vertical farming systems for urban agriculture

    Prof dickson despommier

    Judging by the rapid growth of the vertical farm industry over recent years, vertical farming is projected to become a common feature of the built environment on a global scale within the next 10–20 years. This chapter describes and evaluates technologies and methods for growing edible plants ind...

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