Books in the Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment series

Offers findings and research breakthroughs in plant ecology. This book investigates plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum. It features chapters on molecular ecology as well as the ecology and evolution of plant crowns. It includes a concluding chapter that addresses approaches to generalization in functional plant ecology.

Running a productive agriculture system has always been about having the right tools and the know-how to pursue optimization and efficiency. This work teaches you how to create strategies using available software, spreadsheets, and Internet material to meet the challenges commonly faced in agricultural production, processing and management.

Offers comprehensive information on environmental issues in soil science. This work includes such topics as effects of agricultural operations on changing soils properties and the environment, beneficial organisms and their role in nutrient cycling, organic farming, advances in agricultural biotechnology, soil contamination, and soil conservation.

Integrates basic biotechnological methodologies with agricultural practices, offering solutions to specific agricultural needs and problems from plant and crop yield to animal husbandry. This title presents and evaluates the limitations of classical methodologies and the potential of novel and emergent agriculturally related biotechnologies.

Offers statistical and biometrical procedures for designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting field experiments. This work addresses some of the important research topics in agriculture, including agronomy, breeding and pasture trials; farming systems research; and, intercropping research.

Emphasizing the unpredictable nature of plant behavior under stress and in relation to complex interactions of biological pathways, this work covers the versatility of plants in adapting to environmental change. It analyzes environmentally triggered adoptions in developmental programs of plants that lead to permanent, heritable DNA modifications.

The field of humic matter research has undergone drastic changes in concepts and principles, and a second edition is now warranted to communicate these advances. This revised and updated edition continues the tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the genesis, extraction, properties, and impacts of humic matter on agriculture, industry, and the environment. Chapters examine organic matter; present concepts of humus versus humic matter; and explore the nature and distribution, chemical composition, characterization, electrochemical properties, agronomic and industrial applications, and medicinal and pharmaceutical applications of humic substances.

Updated to include 37 original chapters and making extensive revisions to the chapters that have been retained, 90% of the material in this edition of a bestselling reference is entirely new and continues to fill the need for a comprehensive, authoritative, and timely resource. With contributions from over 100 global experts covering the most recent important research findings, it details all photosynthetic factors and processes under normal and stressful conditions. It also addresses growing concerns about excessive levels and high accumulation rates of carbon dioxide due to industrialization.

Highlighting effective, analytical functions that have been found useful for the comparison of alternative management techniques to maximize water and nutrient resources, this reference describes the application of viable mathematical models in data analysis to increase crop growth and yields. Featuring solutions to various differential equations, the book covers the characteristics of the functions related to the phenomenological growth model. Including more than 1300 literature citations, display equations, tables, and figures and outlining an approach to mathematical crop modeling, Mathematical Models of Crop Growth and Yield will prove an invaluable resource.

Offers information on various phytoalexins of crop plants studied worldwide - describing experimental approaches to the research of specific plants and offering explanations on methods of isolation and characterization. This title supplies coverage of cotton, soybean, groundnut, citrus, mustard, grapevine, potato, pepper, sweet potato, and yam.

Weed management systems are provided for cotton, peanut, soybean, wheat, barley, oat, sorghum, rice, fruits, nut crops, and more. This title offers the fundamental information necessary for the development of weed management strategies for various major US crops using concepts that can be applied worldwide.

Stressing the potential application of biochemical processes in soil to environmental biotechnology, this work considers the vital role that such biochemical processes have in the environment - emphasizing the activity of micro-organisms in soil. It highlights the interaction of xenobiotics, such as pesticides, with soil organisms.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of photoassimilate partitioning and source-sink relationships, this work details the major aspects of source-sink physiology and metabolism, the integration of individual components and photoassimilate partitioning, and the plant source-sink relationships in 16 agriculturally important crops.