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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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    • Neglected and Underutilized Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • November 29, 2022
      • Muhammad Farooq + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food explores future food crops with climate resilience potential. Sections cover their botany, nutritional significance, global distribution, production technology, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses of neglected and underutilized crops. By simply changing species in a crop rotation system, the cycle of some pests and diseases is disrupted and probabilities of infestations are reduced. Finally, the book provides case studies that highlight where the adaptation of crops to local environments, especially with regard to climate change, have been successful.These crops can help make agricultural production systems more resilient to climate change. Although a few books on neglected and underutilized crops are available, this comprehensive book covers the full scope of crop husbandry, nutritional significance and global distribution.

    • The Veterinarian’s Guide to Animal Welfare

      • 1st Edition
      • November 26, 2022
      • Bonnie V. Beaver + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Veterinarian’s Guide to Animal Welfare provides an overview of various aspects of animal welfare that are particularly relative to the veterinary profession. The book explores various ways of viewing and assessing welfare, as well as the numerous factors that influence perceptions. Emphasis is placed on contemporary issues across, and within, major species groups. The book's authors are internationally known experts in the veterinary aspects of animal welfare and have written numerous articles on animal welfare, behavior, euthanasia and the human-animal bond. This book is written for the veterinary profession and was designed to be used as a textbook for animal welfare courses at colleges and schools of veterinary medicine. It complements the Model Curriculum for the Study of Animal Welfare (AVMA 2015) and its attendant course syllabus. This is an important resource for graduate veterinarians seeking to improve their understanding of the numerous aspects of animal welfare.

    • Frontiers in Aquaculture Biotechnology

      • 1st Edition
      • November 26, 2022
      • W.S. Lakra + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Frontiers in Aquaculture Biotechnology presents a broad-spectrum of topics, covering different key aspects of aquaculture. With the rising importance of aquaculture research, evidence-based information is integral in advancing this field. This book provides a solid resource of information on DNA barcoding for fish species authentication and seafood labelling and cell culture, including stem cell culture, in vitro research using fish cell lines such as in vitro fish meat, reproductive biotechnology, including surrogate technology, gene editing and genetically modified aquaculture species, biofloc technology, and omic technologies such as proteomics, artificial intelligence and biobanking. This book will be a valuable resource to students, researchers a nd entrepreneurs interested in a better understanding of this emerging field of aquaculture.

    • Advances in Insect Physiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 63
      • November 24, 2022
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 63 in this longstanding series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of highly qualified authors.

    • Ultrasound and Microwave for Food Processing

      • 1st Edition
      • November 24, 2022
      • Gulzar Ahmad Nayik + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Ultrasound and Microwave for Food Processing: Synergism for Preservation and Extraction analyzes the efficiency and validity of the combined effect of sonication and microwave in food processing, preservation, and extraction. This volume features novel food processing technologies for applications in meat, dairy, juice, and other food processing industries, and presents emerging research trends for future use development in food processing. This book is a comprehensive resource for experts and newcomers in the innovative food processing field, offering insight into physical principles of the technology, detailing the latest advancements, and linking them to current and potential applications in food and bioprocessing-relate... industries.

    • Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals

      • 1st Edition
      • November 23, 2022
      • Sneh Punia + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional, Bioactive and Health Aspects focuses on exploiting the full and functional possibilities of these grains. From their physical chemistry to their health benefits, this book highlights cereals with potential for enhanced products. Plant-based food colorants play an important role in conferring colors to food to increase attractiveness for consumers, improve appetite, minimize synthetic colorants, and conform to food culture. Over the last decades, the presence of anthocyanin and other bioactive compounds in colored cereal grains (maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, and rye) have attracted the attention of various food processors and researchers. Colored cereals are imperative for food processing industries as high-value pigments present in the bran layer can easily be extracted and utilized as functional foods and natural colorants. The extracted pigments such as anthocyanin can replace synthetic dyes currently used in foods, drugs and cosmetics. Additionally, natural additives improve the nutritional value, appearance, texture, flavor and storage properties of food products.

    • Emerging Thermal Processes in the Food Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2022
      • Seid Mahdi Jafari
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Emerging Thermal Processes in the Food Industry, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for thermal processing, including infrared heating, microwave processing, sonication, UV processing, ohmic heating and dielectric processing. These processes and unit operations are very important in terms of achieving favorable sensory properties and energy usage. Chapters emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational and/or applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment for emerging thermal unit operations. Written by experts in the field of food engineering in a simple and dynamic way, this book targets industrial engineers working in the field of food processing and within food factories to make them more familiar with food processing operations and equipment.

    • QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement

      • 1st Edition
      • November 19, 2022
      • Shabir Hussain Wani + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement: Present Progress and Future Perspectives presents advancements in QTL breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional improvement in a range of crop plants. The book presents a roadmap for future breeding for resilience to various stresses and improvement in nutritional quality. Crops such as rice, wheat, maize, soybeans, common bean, and pigeon pea are the major staple crops consumed globally, hence fulfilling the nutritional requirements of global populations, particularly in the under-developed world, is extremely important. Sections cover the challenges facing maximized production of these crops, including diseases, insect damage, drought, heat, salinity and mineral toxicity. Covering globally important crops including maize, wheat, rice, barley, soybean, common bean and pigeon pea, this book will be an important reference for those working in agriculture and crop improvement.

    • Microbial Endophytes and Plant Growth

      • 1st Edition
      • November 19, 2022
      • Manoj Kumar Solanki + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microbial Endophytes and Plant Growth: Beneficial Interactions and Applications explains how modern molecular tools can unlock the plant's microbial network, building the bridge between plant and environment. Chapters describe the usefulness of the endophytic microbiome of different crops, including cereals, vegetables and horticulture, and delve into the latest research surrounding the applications of plant-microbe interactions in improving plant growth. Other topics discussed include root endophytes and their role in plant fitness, seed associated endophytes and their functions, and microbial endophytes and nanotechnology. This is a one-stop resource for scientists wanting access to the latest research in plant microbiology. The book also provides advanced techniques for using multi-omics approaches to study plant-microbe interactions, providing readers with a practical approach.

    • Food Quality Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • November 18, 2022
      • Ashutosh Kumar Shukla
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Food Quality Analysis: Applications of Analytical Methods Coupled With Artificial Intelligence provides different spectroscopic techniques and their application to food quality analysis, with the unique approach of adding multivariate analysis as well as artificial intelligence applications. It also brings chromatographic methods for the analysis of a wide range of food items including wheat flours, oils and fats. Written by a team of interdisciplinary experts, this is a valuable resource for researchers and personnel involved in food industries.　　

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