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Books in Agricultural and biological sciences

The Agricultural and Biological Sciences collection advances science-based knowledge for the improvement of animal and plant life and for secure food systems that produce nutritious, novel, sustainable foods with minimal environmental impact. Food Science titles include not only those products from agriculture but all other aspects from food production to nutrition, health and safety, chemistry to security, policy, law and regulation. Biological Sciences address animal behaviour and biodiversity, organismal and evolutionary biology, entomology, marine biology and aquaculture, plant science and forestry.

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    • Functional Ingredients from Algae for Foods and Nutraceuticals

      • 2nd Edition
      • July 28, 2023
      • Herminia Dominguez + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Functional Ingredients from Algae for Foods and Nutraceuticals, Second Edition presents an overview on the composition, properties and potential to develop novel ingredients and additives for functional foods and nutraceuticals. This revised edition includes recent data on the composition and biological properties of algae, along with examples of the development of novel algae products and their performance. It includes a new chapter on both conventional and green technologies for product development and will be of interest to nutrition researchers, food technologists and marine scientists, as well as those with an interest in natural product development.

    • Dietary Lipids: Nutritional and Technological Aspects

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 105
      • July 27, 2023
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Dietary Lipids: Nutritional and Technological Aspects, Volume 105 focuses on major dietary lipids and their minor bioactive compounds, also covering the role of these lipids in metabolic diseases and covering oil processing with clean technologies and lipidomic characterization by mass spectrometry. Specific chapters in this new release include Major Dietary Lipids in Nutrition and Health, Minor bioactive lipids, Cleaner Processing for Lipids: Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Short Path Distillation, Nutritional Lipidomics for the Characterization of Lipids in Food, We are what we eat? The Role of Lipids in Metabolic Disease, Lipid Emulsions in Clinical Nutrition: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and much more.

    • The Chemical Dialogue Between Plants and Beneficial Microorganisms

      • 1st Edition
      • July 27, 2023
      • Vivek Sharma + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Chemical Dialogue Between Plants and Beneficial Microorganisms provides foundational insights on plant beneficial microorganisms and their impact on the health and productivity of plants. Providing in-depth and recent updates about unexplored aspects of plant microbes interactions, the book includes the biological repertoire of arbuscular mycorrhizal association, molecular architecture of Rhizobium-plant symbiosis, and endophytes in transcriptional plasticity during host colonization by endophytes. The book also includes details about the mechanism of different plant beneficial microorganisms, how these differ, and their cross signaling. This book will be an important reference for researchers working on different plant beneficial microorganisms and their molecular arsenal.

    • Photosynthesis

      • 1st Edition
      • July 27, 2023
      • Harvey J.M. Hou + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Photosynthesis: From Plants to Nanomaterials in the Nanomaterial-Plant Interactions series, summarizes both the foundational mechanisms and latest advances in photosynthesis. With a strong emphasis on artificial photosynthesis, the book also analyzes the role of nanomaterials in energy production. Starting with an introduction to plant photosynthetic systems, chapters discuss the structure of light harvesting systems, energy transfer and membrane protein complexes. The book later describes the role of nanoparticles in photosynthesis, including agricultural applications, advances in nanobionics, and the impact of engineered nanomaterials. This book is an essential read for researchers and students interested in photosynthesis, bionanotechnology and nanomaterials.

    • Digital Sensory Science

      • 1st Edition
      • July 26, 2023
      • J. Ben Lawlor + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Sensory Science: Applications in New Product Development provides a comprehensive overview of digital sensory science, an area that has broadly been defined as the use of technology to measure, explain and/or predict sensory perception. The goal of this book is to illustrate to the reader the opportunities around digital sensory science as well as the challenges to be overcome. This book offers practical guidance to both researchers and practitioners of sensory science.

    • The Sounds of Science

      • 1st Edition
      • July 26, 2023
      • Henrik Österblom
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Sounds of Science provides a comprehensive account of a large-scale scientific experiment with globally operating seafood corporations headquartered in North America, Europe, and Asia. It describes how scientists worked to identify these, world’s largest seafood companies, and how their disproportionate powers were mobilized in a coalition of companies called SeaBOS (Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship), aiming to provide global and science-based industry leadership on ocean stewardship. As invoked by the cover art (Flow, 2020) by world-renowned creative director, Kashiwa Sato, the experiment is creating a small wave of change that sits within a larger wave, supporting and generating larger movements towards improved stewardship of the planet. A new direction for the private sector is emerging, and new priorities are flourishing. The book explores how corporations, guided by science, can be part of the solution to the biosphere challenges. Written in collaboration with international experts on sustainability, ocean ecosystems, fisheries policy, and corporations, this book explores the mechanisms leading to the evolution of cooperation, and the barriers to address in order to engage in collaborative learning, corporate change and novel science. It offers tangible advice to scientists on how to work with the private sector for a better, more sustainable world. The Sounds of Science is an important resource for scientists interested in engaging with the private sector. Corporate leaders and policy makers will find this book useful for understanding, collaborating, and working with the planet to reach global sustainability goals.

    • Rhizobiome

      • 1st Edition
      • July 26, 2023
      • Javid A. Parray + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Rhizosphere: Ecology, Management and Application highlights the use of the rhizosphere microbiome to improve plant and soil health, including strengthening stress resistance and remediating negatively impacted soils. The book focuses on current developments and applications of related low input management strategies in high-value crops as well as non-food plants. Further sections provide insights into the ecology and functions of these interactions, including evidence that plant microbiota is vital for plant growth and stress resilience and health. It highlights fundamental microbiome research to help readers better understand the dynamics within microbial communities and their interactions with various plant hosts and the environment. Microbial-root associations are essential to assist plants under abiotic and biotic stresses and are necessary and beneficial to enhancing agricultural crop production. Numerous studies have enhanced our vision of the complex interactions between the plant, the associated microbial communities, and the environment. Further, microbe – microbe interactions allow the simulation microbial community interactions naturally, and is one of the many modern methods for the development of novel and effective metabolites.

    • Advances in Agronomy

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 181
      • July 25, 2023
      • Donald L. Sparks
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Agronomy, Volume 181, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, with each chapter written by an international board of authors.

    • Oceans and Human Health

      • 2nd Edition
      • July 14, 2023
      • Lora Fleming + 6 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Occupational and Environmental Medicine**Oceans and Human Health: Opportunities and Impacts, Second Edition explores the inextricably interconnected and complex relationship between oceans and humans. Through the lens of the expanding oceans and human health meta-discipline, this work examines the many invaluable ecosystem services offered by oceans as well as the global anthropogenic impacts, and explores the associated risks and benefits to human health. Written and edited by an interdisciplinary team of experts, the book features international perspectives on the resources available to address these benefits and risks, including enhanced research, policy, and community engagement. The book concludes by examining the future of ocean stewardship and how global populations can unite to nurture and promote our life-enhancing relationship with oceans. This is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, communities, and industry specialists in marine sciences, public health, and international policy.

    • Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 13, 2023
      • M.B. Kirkham
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations, Third Edition describes the fundamental principles of soil and water relationships in relation to water storage in soil and water uptake by plants. The book explains why it is important to know about soil-plant-water relations, with subsequent chapters providing the definition of all physical units and the SI system and dealing with the structure of water and its special properties. Final sections explain the structure of plants and the mechanisms behind their interrelationships, especially the mechanism of water uptake and water flow within plants and how to assess parameters. All chapters begin with a brief paragraph about why the topic is important and include all formulas necessary to calculate respective parameters. This third edition includes a new chapter on water relations of plants and soils in space as well as textbook problems and answers.

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Agricultural science

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Forest science

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Plant science

Soil science

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