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    • Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield

      • 1st Edition
      • January 29, 2025
      • Shubhpriya Gupta + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield highlights their importance as a mechanism, specifically for this result. Intended to transform the latest scientific research into practical application, the book focuses on the effects of biostimulants on flower and fruit development and set, early flowering, pollen viability, germination, and other reproductive aspects. It covers a sustainable approach in utilization of these promising biostimulants in agriculture, horticulture, and floriculture for better productivity, and to feed a growing world population.Biostimul... are a group of substances of natural origin and/or microorganisms that offers the potential to reduce the dependency on harmful chemical fertilizers that cause environmental degradation. The application of biostimulants represents one of the most innovative and promising strategies to improve crop productivity.

    • Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought, and Heat Stress

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • M. Naeem + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress provides the latest information on the potential for sustainable, enhanced resilience of agricultural crops to adverse conditions. This volume in the Biostimulant and Protective Biochemical Agents series focuses on high impact challenges and opportunities. Biostimulants are a promising and effective approach for achieving sustainable agriculture, often regarded as a renewable source of plant nutrients, improve crop production and soil health. During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the potential use of various biostimulants such as plant growth-promoting fungi, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, seaweed extracts, and organic amendments, etc. to increase nutrient use efficiency, and/or tolerance to abiotic environmental stress in plants. Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress includes coverage of bacteria, algae, PGR, PGPB, biochar and other core approaches. It highlights how specific biostimulants may protect or enhance agricultural plant health and is the first comprehensive reference resource to focus exclusively on the role of biostimulants in protecting agricultural crop yield against these major environmental challenges.

    • Sorghum and Millets

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 25, 2025
      • John Taylor + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry, Technology, and Nutritional Attributes, Third Edition is the leading resource for state-of-art knowledge on grain science and utilization surrounding sorghum and millets. The book covers important scientific knowledge, including basic science—genetics, chemistry, and biochemistry—food chemistry, nutritional quality and health-promoting attributes, agronomy, and food and feed processing technologies. Other sections delve into structure, chemistry, biochemistry, grain components, and the technologies used for food processing. Additionally, it provides holistic and complete information about all technologies in the sorghum and millets food value chain, from genomics-based breeding to grain- and product quality assurance.Sorghum and the millets are the 5th and 6th most important cereal grains in terms of production and are cultivated across the world. They have a very wide range of end-uses as traditional staple foods and beverages, modern processed foods, and with respect to sorghum, industrial applications, including biofuels, and as an animal and aquaculture feedstuff.

    • Crop Physiology

      • 3rd Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Ignacio Ciampitti + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems, Third Edition, continues to provide updated insights in crop science; the premise is that farmers use two technological menus: varieties, and practices – what to grow and how. Hence, the book finds the relevance of crop physiology in a context of plant breeding and agronomy. This book is written for an audience of researchers and advanced students seeking to understand the fundamentals of crop ecophysiology including the economies of water, nitrogen and carbon, and crop adaptation to soil and climate stresses.

    • Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • November 28, 2023
      • Muhammad Tehseen Azhar + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops: Molecular and Breeding Approaches is a comprehensive overview of important food crops whose vitamin and mineral enhancement can contribute significantly to improved food and nutrition security. Providing the latest information on crops including cereals, oilseeds, legumes and vegetables, this book provides details of agronomic and molecular resources for enhanced mineral production. Each chapter focuses on a specific food crop and the unique opportunities offered by each through breeding practices. This will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics and those in industry who are exploring biotechnological approaches as a powerful tool to combat malnutrition.

    • Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress

      • 1st Edition
      • April 8, 2021
      • Aryadeep Roychoudhury + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress focuses on the different forms of environmental stress related to heavy metal, metalloid and nutrient deficiency that have the potential to inflict major damages to crop plants, leading to a massive decrease in crop yield and productivity. The book presents the current state of knowledge of the biochemical and molecular regulation of several classes of membrane transporters related to the uptake of metals/metalloids and nutrient elements during different stresses and their probable mechanisms of operation in plant stress tolerance. Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress provides a comprehensive discussion that will help in mitigating multiple forms of stresses utilizing transporter proteins. Edited by leading experts and written by a global team of knowledgeable contributors, this book will further stimulate research in the field of transporter proteins and will foster further interests for researchers, academicians and scientists worldwide. It is complimented by its companion book titled Transporters and Plant Osmotic Stress.

    • Crop Physiology Case Histories for Major Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2020
      • Victor Sadras + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Crop Physiology: Case Histories of Major Crops updates the physiology of broad-acre crops with a focus on the genetic, environmental and management drivers of development, capture and efficiency in the use of radiation, water and nutrients, the formation of yield and aspects of quality. These physiological process are presented in a double context of challenges and solutions. The challenges to increase plant-based food, fodder, fiber and energy against the backdrop of population increase, climate change, dietary choices and declining public funding for research and development in agriculture are unprecedented and urgent. The proximal technological solutions to these challenges are genetic improvement and agronomy. Hence, the premise of the book is that crop physiology is most valuable when it engages meaningfully with breeding and agronomy. With contributions from 92 leading scientists from around the world, each chapter deals with a crop: maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum and oat; quinoa; soybean, field pea, chickpea, peanut, common bean, lentil, lupin and faba bean; sunflower and canola; potato, cassava, sugar beet and sugarcane; and cotton.

    • Sweet Potato

      • 1st Edition
      • May 18, 2019
      • Taihua Mu + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Sweet Potato: Chemistry, Processing, and Nutrition presents foundational information, including identification, analysis, and use of chemical components from sweet potato in a variety of food and nonfood uses. Sweet potatoes can be easily propagated, are rich source of carbohydrates and functional components, and are highly productive, which makes them most suitable for production of staple and functional foods. With the increasing population and the challenges of providing healthy food to the world, there is an increasing consumer demand for new and better sweet potato products, particularly for those in developing countries. Providing a brief description of the specific sweet potato components, their role during processing and strategies for quality optimization, this book also explores novel methods of sweet potato starch, protein, and pectin modification providing students, researchers, and technologists working in the area of food science and others with the most recent information and state-of-the-art technology for developing new and beneficial uses of sweet potato.

    • Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress

      • 1st Edition
      • September 17, 2019
      • Palmiro Poltronieri + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improvement of Resistance to Biotic Stress applies biotechnology insights that seek to improve plant genomes, thus helping them achieve higher resistance and optimal hormone signaling to increase crop yield. The book provides an analysis of the current state-of-the-art in plant biotechnology as applied to improving resistance to biotic stress. In recent years, significant progress has been made towards understanding the interplay between plants and their hosts, particularly the role of plant immunity in regulating, attenuating or neutralizing invading pathogens. As a result, there is a great need to integrate these insights with methods from biotechnology.

    • Fruit Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • November 27, 2019
      • Anoop Kumar Srivastava + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fruit Crops: Diagnosis and Management of Nutrient Constraints is the first and only resource to holistically relate fruits as a nutritional source for human health to the state-of-the-art methodologies currently used to diagnose and manage nutritional constraints placed on those fruits. This book explores a variety of advanced management techniques, including open field hydroponic, fertigation/bio-fert... the use of nano-fertilizers, sensors-based nutrient management, climate- smart integrated soil fertility management, inoculation with microbial consortium, and endophytes backed up by ecophysiology of fruit crops. These intricate issues are effectively presented, including real-world applications and future insights.