Books on Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Agronomy and Crop Science Books

Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Genetic Resources - book by International Board for Plant Genetic Resources

DESCRIPTION: Plant genetic resources is a rapidly expanding field of interest that is becoming increasingly important as global warming affects the patterns of world agriculture. Every country will have to consider more active breeding programmes to develop new varieties of crop plants adapted to th... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Horticultural and Agricultural Plant Production - book by International Society for Horticultural Science;The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries

DESCRIPTION: The first edition of this dictionary, Elsevier's Dictionary of Horticulture, edited by J. Nydam and A. de Jong was published in 1970. Since that time horticulture has expanded and developed spectacularly and the aim of this second edition is to meet a worldwide need to develop close con... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Wood Dictionary : Production, Transport, Trade - book by Boerhave Beekman, W.

DESCRIPTION: This volume covers the following subject areas: forest explanation, forest utilization, buying and selling, defects in wood, water transport, finance, aeriel survey, measures, banking, road transport, bookkeeping, claims, commercial correspondence, insurance, classification, professions... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Wood Dictionary : Research, Manufacture, Utilization - book by Boerhave Beekman, W.

DESCRIPTION: This volume covers the following subject areas: woodworking machinery, civil engineering, surface treatment, wood constructions, veneer manufacture, mechanical properties, anatomy, wood improvement, woodware, shipbuilding, tools, hydraulics, wood drying, physical properties, paper indus... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Botany : General Terms - book by Macura, P.

DESCRIPTION: Despite its title, this volume is far more than simply a dictionary of general botanical terms - it includes a very useful selection of terms from closely related fields such areas as botany, phytocoenology, phytomorphology, phytochemistry, forestry, grassland research, biochemistry, ho... view more info and the price of this book.

Genetic Improvement of Vegetable Crops - book by Kalloo, G.;Bergh, B.O.

DESCRIPTION: Genetic improvement has played a vital role in enhancing the yield potential of vegetable crops. There are numerous vegetable crops grown worldwide and variable degrees of research on genetics, breeding and biotechnology have been conducted on these crops. This book brings together the ... view more info and the price of this book.

Pathogenesis & Host Specificity in Plant Diseases : Eukaryotes - book by Singh, U.S.;Kohmoto, K.;Singh, R.P.

DESCRIPTION: Forms part of the three-volume set, Pathogenesis & Host Specificity in Plant Diseases, and deals with pathogenesis and host specificity in plant pathogenic eukaryotes. Pathogenesis & Host Specificity in Plant Diseases as a whole is the first complete publication covering the mec... view more info and the price of this book.

Agricultural Compendium - book by EUROCONSULT

DESCRIPTION: Like its predecessors, this third revised edition of the Agricultural Compendium is packed with a wealth of statistical and general information about almost every aspect of agriculture in the tropics and subtropics. "Anyone in tropical rural development, whether in a technical capacity... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs - book by Vaucher, H.

DESCRIPTION: In scientific and commercial usage, a plant is designated by its Latin name. That is the simplest and most logical method and the only one precluding misunderstandings among professionals from all parts of the world. The layman, however, knows the plants mainly by their common designat... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Wild and Cultivated Plants - book by Clason, W.E.

DESCRIPTION: Listed in this multilingual dictionary are the scientific names of wild and cultivated plants found in Europe. As the scientific names are most widely used internationally in the field of botany, these are given first with their vernacular names in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dut... view more info and the price of this book.

Hop Production - book by Rybacek, V.

DESCRIPTION: This book deals in detail with all aspects of hop growing, hop cone handling, drying, storage and processing into hop products and preparations, and with their utilization in the brewing industry. Particular attention is given to theoretical and practical hop production problems from t... view more info and the price of this book.

Plant Tissue Culture - book by Bhojwani, S.S.

DESCRIPTION: During the past decade, Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) has attracted considerable attention because of its vital role in plant biotechnology. PTC offers novel approaches to plant production, propagation, and preservation. Some in vitro techniques are being applied on a commercial scale wh... view more info and the price of this book.

Crop Production and Crop Protection - book by Oerke, E.-C.;Dehne, H.-W.;Schonbeck, F.;Weber, A.

DESCRIPTION: The objective of this book is to provide information to be used as a basis for evaluating the fragile, shaky structure of global food production. The volume analyses the data by region and by intensity of cultivation; and furnishes information about the yield response, giving some indic... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Pests and Diseases in Useful Plants - book by Eylenbosch, E.J.K.

DESCRIPTION: Phytoparasites and zooparasites of useful plants and the diseases they cause, are the subject of this multilingual dictionary. The major topics include: bacteria; fungi and fungi imperfecti; insects and mites; lichens and mosses; molluscs; nematodes; noxious animals and birds; parasitic... view more info and the price of this book.

Dictionary of Plant Virology - book by Bojnansky, V.;Fargasova, A.

DESCRIPTION: Plant virology is a relatively young scientific discipline that has developed rapidly in the last decades. Consequently, there appeared an urgent need to prepare a dictionary that would include precise translations of equivalents in various languages.In the general part of this dictiona... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names - book by Wrobel, M.;Creber, G.

DESCRIPTION: This comprehensive overview of plant names includes over 12,500 terms covering 298 families, 2,787 genera and 9,427 species which are listed in the alphabetical order of their botanical names. In addition, 2,109 of the more common synonyms are given and referred to their current, prefer... view more info and the price of this book.

Chromosome Engineering in Plants - book by Gupta, P.K.;Tsuchiya, T.

DESCRIPTION: This two-volume work surveys the entire range of general aspects of chromosome research on plants. This first volume is divided into two sections. Section A consists of 11 chapters covering the entire range of general aspects of chromosome research in plants (including a chapter on gene... view more info and the price of this book.

Perspectives for Agronomy - book by van Ittersum, M.K.;van de Geijn, S.C.

DESCRIPTION: During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, i... view more info and the price of this book.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and their Origin - book by Watts, D.C.

DESCRIPTION: The dictionary contains about 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants (plus a few American), both wild and cultivated, with their botanical name and a brief account of the names' meaning if known. It was conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree l... view more info and the price of this book.

Silicon in Agriculture - book by Datnoff, L.E.;Snyder, G.H.;Korndorfer, G.H.

DESCRIPTION: Presenting the first book to focus on the importance of silicon for plant health and soil productivity and on our current understanding of this element as it relates to agriculture. Long considered by plant physiologists as a non-essential element, or plant nutrient, silicon was the c... view more info and the price of this book.

Soil, Fertilizer, and Plant Silicon Research in Japan - book by Ma, Jian Feng;Takahashi, Eiichi

DESCRIPTION: Silicon (Si) plays a significant role in the resistance of plants to multiple stresses including biotic and abiotic stresses. Silicon is also the only element that does not damage plants when accumulated in excess. However, the contribution of Si to plant growth has been largely ignor... view more info and the price of this book.