Sustainable Agriculture Reviews : Cereals / edited by Eric Lichtfouse, Aakash Goyal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lichtfouse, Eric, editor.

Goyal, Aakash, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)

Sustainable agriculture reviews 2210-4410 ; 16.

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 2210-4410 ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 214 pages) : 44 illustrations.

Edition:

First edition 2015.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

System Details:

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Summary:

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world.

Contents:

Drought and salt stress in cereals

Precision nitrogen management for sustainable corn production

Soil and crop management for sustainable agriculture

Rice pest management and biological control

Sustainable rice production

Rice, wheat and maize biofortification

Sorghum fungal diseases

Sorghum health benefits

Sorghum and millet seed systems in southern Africa

Recent advances in cereals proteomics.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-319-16988-0

9783319169880

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