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Encyclopedia of agriculture research / Gary C. Reiter and Caleb J. Schuster, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Agriculture issues and policies series.
- Agriculture issues and policies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Research--Encyclopedias.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (997 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new book presents and discusses current research in the study of agriculture, with a particular focus on technology, production and economics. Topics discussed include agricultural software; mechanized land application of organic fertilizers; pesticide models; optical metrology in agriculture; amplification of small interfering RNAs in transgenic plants; spate irrigation of rangelands; land titling and agricultural development; social labels for agricultural products and contemporary ecological-economic assessment of contaminated agricultural lands.
- Contents:
- Computers and electronics in innovative olive oil mill production chain / Monica Carfagni ... [et al.]
- A methodology for resource assignment and scheduling in uncertain environment and its applications to farm work management / Senlin Guan ... [et al.]
- Recent advances on agricultural software / Daniela de C. Lopes, Antonio J. Steidle Neto
- Mechanized land application of organic fertilizers / Hubert Landry, Claude Lague, Joy M. Agnew
- Pesticide models for simulating environmental transport of soil fumigants / Dong Wang
- The fungicides / Md. Wasim Aktar, Dwaipayan Sengupta
- Green fluorescent protein / Slavomir Rakousky, Marek Hraka
- Building true forecasts into crop disease management systems / Kathleen Baker ... [et al.]
- Optical metrology in agriculture / Roberto Braga
- Nutritional and safety assessment of feeds from genetically modified plants / Gerhard Flachowsky and Sven Danicke
- Optimizing the content of nutritionally essential trace metals in Chinese cabbage (Brassica chinesis l.) with soil applications of compost or nitrogen / Gerhard Gramss, Hans Bergmann
- Amplification of small interfering RNAs in transgenic plants / Hiroaki Kodama ... [et al.]
- Downstream processing strategies for the purification of recombinant proteins from transgenic maize / Dimitris Platis, Nikolaos E. Labrou
- Banana trade worldwide / Hong Xu, WenJun Zhang
- How mathematics are helping the olive oil industry / Jose S. Torrecilla
- Lignan biosynthesis enhancement in transgenic wheat / Allan K. Ayella, Weiqun Wang
- Sustained agriculture / Gary Witmer, Grant Singleton
- Spate irrigation of rangelands / Sayyed Hamid Mesbah, Sayyed Ahang Kowsar
- A stochastic evaluation of the validity of an animal-health survey in Uruguay / K. Suzuki ... [et al.]
- Serological monitoring of selected avian pathogens of commercial poultry farms in Uruguay / K. Suzuki ... [et al.]
- Assessing the seroprevalence for abortigenic diseases of ovine herds based on diagnostic tests applied to individual- animals in Uruguay / K. Suzuki ... [et al.]
- Land titling and agricultural development / David S. Jones
- Sustainable irrigated agricultural production of countries in economic transition / Shavkat Rakhmatullaev ... [et al.]
- Agricultural production in China / Jenifer Huang McBeath and Jerry McBeath
- Social labels for agricultural products / Sebastian Jaenichen, Torsten Steinrucken
- Improvement of plant resistance to pathogens and insects by the use of genes of protease inhibitors / Ya.E. Dunaevsky ... [et al.]
- The role of culture and food habits in olive-oil purchase behaviour / Juan Carlos Gazquez-Abad, Francisco J. Martinez-Lopez, Juan Antonio Mondejar-Jimenez
- A comparative economic study of China's and Australia's cotton production / Xufu Zhao, Clem Tisdell
- Invasive alien plant species / Magdalena Lenda, Piotr Skorka, Dawid Moron
- Planning to fight speculation / Emilia Malcata Rebelo
- Contemporary ecological-economic assessment of contaminated agricultural lands / E. V. Tsvetnov, A. I. Shcheglov, and O. B. Tsvetnova
- The role of a geographic and technological based index in the agricultural regional income convergence of Minas Gerais state, Brazil / Rosa M.O. Fontes, Mauricio P.F. Fontes, Elydia M.G. Silva
- Natural protection from international competition in the livestock industry / Clem Tisdell ... [et al.]
- A comparison of hedging strategies and effectiveness for storable and non-storable commodities / Janelle Mann, Peter Sephton
- Determinants of crop choices by Bangladeshi farmers / Sanzidur Rahman
- A prospective analysis for the role of the cap in rural economies and related research needs / D. Viaggi ... [et al.]
- Milk supply forecasting for a airy cooperative in the UK using univariate time series modelling techniques / Sanzidur Rahman, Shaheen Akter
- The role of agroforestry development in transition from neoclassic economy to bio-based economy / Ryunosuke Kikuchi.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62417-467-1
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