Six chemicals that changed agriculture / Robert L. Zimdahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimdahl, Robert L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural chemicals.

Lime.

Nitrogen fertilizers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture is a scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest management, antibiotics to DNA, chemicals have transformed the way our food is grown, protected, and processed. Agriculture is the world's most important environment interaction, the essential human activity, and an increasingly controversial activity because of its use and presumed misuse of chemistry. The major characteristics of US agriculture for at least the last six decades have been risi

Contents:

Introduction

The characteristics of modern agriculture enabled by chemicals

Lime : A soil amendment

Nitrogen

Phosphorus

2, 4-D : An herbicide

DDT : An insecticide

Recombinant DNA

Antibiotics

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780128006177

012800617X

OCLC:

915311392