Author: Niamh O'LearyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Divergent Selection of Corn (Zea Mays) in Monoculture and Intercrop
Author: Niamh O'LearyUsing Divergent Recurrent Selection to Develop Maize (Zea Mays L.) Cultivars Suited to Intercrop with Dry Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.)
Author: Gregorio Jacob Soto-GuevaraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Evaluation of Maize Populations Resulting from Divergent Recurrent Selection Under Interseeding with Red Clover
Author: Mohamed Farah ShirdonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Agrindex
Author: American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Agronomy News
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Sept.-Oct. issue includes list of theses and dissertations for U.S. and Canadian graduate degrees granted in crop science, soil science, and agronomic science during the previous academic year.
Sustainable Intensification
Author: Jules N. PrettyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136529276
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Crop Stress and its Management: Perspectives and Strategies
Author: B. VenkateswarluPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400722206
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Crops experience an assortment of environmental stresses which include abiotic viz., drought, water logging, salinity, extremes of temperature, high variability in radiation, subtle but perceptible changes in atmospheric gases and biotic viz., insects, birds, other pests, weeds, pathogens (viruses and other microbes). The ability to tolerate or adapt and overwinter by effectively countering these stresses is a very multifaceted phenomenon. In addition, the inability to do so which renders the crops susceptible is again the result of various exogenous and endogenous interactions in the ecosystem. Both biotic and abiotic stresses occur at various stages of plant development and frequently more than one stress concurrently affects the crop. Stresses result in both universal and definite effects on plant growth and development. One of the imposing tasks for the crop researchers globally is to distinguish and to diminish effects of these stress factors on the performance of crop plants, especially with respect to yield and quality of harvested products. This is of special significance in view of the impending climate change, with complex consequences for economically profitable and ecologically and environmentally sound global agriculture. The challenge at the hands of the crop scientist in such a scenario is to promote a competitive and multifunctional agriculture, leading to the production of highly nourishing, healthy and secure food and animal feed as well as raw materials for a wide variety of industrial applications. In order to successfully meet this challenge researchers have to understand the various aspects of these stresses in view of the current development from molecules to ecosystems. The book will focus on broad research areas in relation to these stresses which are in the forefront in contemporary crop stress research.