Lichtfouse (2009) - Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial Microorganisms

Title : Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial Microorganisms
Editor : Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher : Springer (2009)
Pages : 523 pages
Language : English
ISBN: 978-90-481-2715-3
ISBN : 978-90-481-2716-0

Description :
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. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

Hock and Erich (2005) - Plant Toxicology - 4th Edition

Title : Plant Toxicology - 4th Edition
Editors : Bertold Hock and Erich F. Elstner
Publisher : Marcel Dekker, New York
Pages : 664 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 0929-1873

Description :

In order to keep track of all the compounds and pathogens affecting plant metabolism and development, you would need to spend all your waking hours combing periodicals and the Internet in dozens of languages, as new toxins via pollutants and migratory or mutant pathogens are being discovered every day.
Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition starts with a basic overview of the plant as a complex living organism. The first chapters introduce plant structure and organization. Starting with the cell as the smallest elementary unit, the emphasis is on plant-specific features with respect to their susceptibility to environmental contaminants.
Hock and Elstner, who between them have published over 500 original papers on plants and plant disease, called upon experts from across the world to contribute to this essential text. The book analyzes processes central to plant metabolism, including uptake, distribution, and secretion of toxic material, and focuses on the recognition and prevention of damage associated with environmental pollutants. It studies diseases caused by viruses, subviral organisms, phytoplasmas, fungal and bacterial pathogens.
Learn about Pathology in Plants as an Integral Interconnected Facet of their Environment
The text is designed to enable you to classify and target specific forms of plant damage. Equally important, it never loses sight of the princple that plants are not isolated organisms, but rather exist as participants in complex environments, which must be taken into account when studying the delivery and impact of toxins.
Supplying more than 1500 current references, Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition is required reading for all plant, crop, soil, and environmental scientists; botanists; agronomists; agriculturists; horticulturists; biochemists; foresters; plant growers; and upper level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Gullan dan Cranston (2010) - The Insects - An Outline of Entomology - 4th Edition

Title : The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 4th Edition
Author : Penny J. Gullan and Peter S. Cranston  
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell (January 2010)
Pages : 590 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 978-1-4443-3036-6

Description
This established, popular textbook provides a stimulating and comprehensive introduction to the insects, the animals that represent over half of the planet's biological diversity. In this new fourth edition, the authors introduce the key features of insect structure, function, behavior, ecology and classification, placed within the latest ideas on insect evolution. Much of the book is organised around major biological themes - living on the ground, in water, on plants, in colonies, and as predators, parasites/parasitoids and prey. A strong evolutionary theme is maintained throughout. The ever-growing economic importance of insects is emphasized in new boxes on insect pests, and in chapters on medical and veterinary entomology, and pest management. Updated 'taxoboxes' provide concise information on all aspects of each of the 27 major groupings (orders) of insects.

Prusky and Lodovica (2010) - Post-harvest Pathology

Title : Post-harvest Pathology
Series : Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, Vol. 2
Editors : Dov Prusky and M. Lodovica Gullino
Publisher : Springer (2010)
Pages : 212 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 978-1-4020-8929-9
e-ISBN : 978-1-4020-8930-5

Review :
“Volume 2 deals with Post-harvest Pathology. This is a slender volume, containing only 14 papers … . They bring together a summary of work across the whole field of plant pathology … . They thus enable specialists to see their specialism as part of an integrated whole, and for students and those at the start of their careers they provide an invaluable summary of what is going on, who the key players are and where the knowledge lacunae lie.” (David Ingram, Food Security, Vol. 3, 2011)

Mason (2003) - Sustainable Agriculture (2nd Edition)

Title : Sustainable Agriculture (2nd Edition)
Author : John Mason
Series : Landlinks Press
Publisher : CSIRO Publishing, 2nd Edition (January 1, 2003)
Pages : 212 pages
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0643068767
ISBN-13 : 978-0643068766

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