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.

Books Journals

Dietary, Sensory and Gastronomic Applications

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Tanmay Sarkar + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 5 3
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 6 0

Dietary, Sensory and Gastronomic Applications: Exploring Unconventional Food Sources Volume 2, showcases how untapped food sources can be harnessed for product development. Highlighting dietary enrichment, heightened sensory experiences, and enhanced functional attributes, this book provides insights into innovative plant-based ingredient solutions for those wanting to take their products to the next level to meet myriad dietary needs in a sustainable way. Dietary, Sensory and Gastronomic Applications: Exploring Unconventional Food Sources Volume 2, takes a deep dive into exploring microbes for food production and consumption and looks at the challenges and opportunities for product shelf-life extension, texture modification, sugar substitutions and natural pigmentation enhancement. It also explores novel texturizers, emulsifiers and surfactants, and acidulants and pH regulators to achieve enhanced sensory characteristics such as mouthfeel, flavor balance and umami. The book concludes with innovations in edible packaging, the use of functional and designer lipids for the food industry and how to navigate the challenges around these new culinary innovations. A complementary volume highlighting the health, nutrition and sustainability of unconventional foods and how they can diversify diets and enhance future meals is also available.

Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
M. Naeem + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 5 7 3
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 4 5 8 0

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.

Melatonin in Horticultural Plants

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Muhammad Ahsan Altaf + 3 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 8 5 1 9
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 8 5 2 6

Melatonin in Horticultural Plants: A Multifunctional Molecule for Abiotic Stress Tolerance gathers insights from leading experts on the role of melatonin in increasing crop tolerance to various abiotic stresses. This book explores the morphological, physiological, and biochemical processes induced by melatonin application, enhancing crop resilience. It delves into the effects of stressors such as salinity, drought, temperature extremes, and heavy metal exposure on different plant growth stages, providing a comprehensive overview of how melatonin can improve plant health and productivity in challenging environments.The book emphasizes melatonin's multifunctional phytoprotective properties, its role in coordinating signal transduction pathways, and its involvement in physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms. Practical strategies for applying melatonin in real-world agricultural settings are discussed, including the use of bio-stimulants, hormones, novel chemicals, and microorganisms. Readers will gain actionable insights for enhancing crop resistance and productivity amidst changing climates and human activities.

Plant-Based Proteins Processing

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
C.K. Sunil + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 9 5 5 4
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 9 5 6 1

Plant-Based Proteins Processing: Emerging Trends and Applications is a comprehensive guide focusing on the extraction, modification, applications, and marketing of plant-based proteins. It explores sources, nutritional properties, and both conventional and novel extraction techniques. Modification methods such as thermal, non-thermal, biological, and chemical are detailed. The book consists of five sections, beginning with an overview of plant proteins and their digestibility, bioavailability, and nutritional properties. Each section provides valuable insights for students, researchers, professionals, and food manufacturers involved in plant-based protein production. The book also delves into food byproducts as sources of protein, discusses challenges, and highlights future opportunities for plant-based proteins.Section C focuses on the effects of various modification methods on plant proteins, while Section D and E cover practical applications and market prospects respectively. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the growing field of plant-based proteins.

Phytochemicals and Gut Health

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Sachchida Nand Rai + 2 more
English
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 6 3 7 3 3

A healthy gut microbiome is crucial for optimizing health and managing certain diseases. Phytochemicals and Gut Health: Evidence and Opportunities for Gastrointestinal Management, highlights specific plant phytochemicals and their bioactive compounds and the influence they have on the gut-brain axis. By exploring sources, production, mechanisms of action, and clinical applications, Phytochemicals and Gut Health: Evidence and Opportunities For Gastrointestinal Management, uncovers how certain bioactives can optimize health and improve gastrointestinal diseases while reducing the side effects and limited efficacy of current medical treatments. Authors identify different classes of plant-based phytochemicals such as phenolic metabolites, alkaloids, terpenoids and glucosinolates, while demonstrating a better understanding of the gut-nutraceutical axis that can improve microbiota for GI disorders and more. Readers will also gain perspective on the mechanisms of action and synergistic effects phytochemicals have on cardiovascular and neurological health.

Sustainable Advances in Biopolymer-Based Packaging for Food Shelf-life Extension

1st Edition
October 29, 2025
Mihir Kumar Purkait + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 1 2 0 6
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 1 2 1 3

Sustainable Advances in Biopolymer-Based Packaging for Food Shelf-life Extension offers readers sustainable solutions for enhancing food shelf-life. It covers topics such as bio-based packaging materials, modification techniques, edible coatings, biodegradable packaging, nanotechnology, hydrogels, and intelligent packaging. Readers will be able to make informed decisions and implement sustainable solutions for enhancing food shelf-life while reducing reliance on traditional non-biodegradable packaging materials. The book begins by exploring the basics of bio-based food packaging materials, covering origins, characteristics, and varieties such as plant, animal, microbial, and waste materials.Subsequent chapters explain emerging bio-based materials, including intelligent packaging and edible coatings. Extraction technologies, modification techniques, and applications for sustainable and eco-friendly food packaging are also discussed. The potential of biopolymers, including those from plant extracts, to improve the nutritional content of packaged foods is highlighted. Through country-specific case studies from the EU, Asia, and North America, the book discusses the global regulatory landscape for bio-based food packaging and offers insights into challenges and future trends.

Interaction of Food Macromolecules

1st Edition
October 6, 2025
Ibrahim Khalifa + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 4 0 4 4 7
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 4 0 4 5 4

Interaction of Food Macromolecules: The Matrix of Future Foods provides a detailed understanding on why biological macromolecules, i.e., proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates with ligands interactions are essential to understanding biology at the molecular level. The book aims to create a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the interaction between macromolecules and ligands, providing an understanding on how biological macromolecules with ligands interactions are central to facilitating the discovery, design, and development of future, functional foods. In addition, it outlines information available on the macromolecules-ligan... interaction that happens inside the food matrixes and inside our bodies.Knowing about the mechanisms responsible for the macromolecules-ligan... recognition and binding facilitates the discovery, design, and development of future and functional foods.

Engineered Nanomaterials for Agricultural Sustainability

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Sanghamitra Majumdar + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 6 1 7 3
eBook
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 4 3 4 5

Engineered Nanomaterials for Agricultural Sustainability: Current Status, Methods and Future Strategies addresses the bottleneck between the development and implementation of nanotechnology created by the knowledge gap in the science, regulation and impact on both the environment and consumers. The book presents the latest insights from studies on the mechanisms and fate of nanomaterials in plants in a structured and organized way that enables the reader to design nanomaterials for specific agricultural applications, avoid undesirable effects on those plants, and to identify the most appropriate path forward toward commercial application.With important insights into the regulatory constraints, this volume will be a go-to reference for those seeking to find strategies for using nanomaterials and nanotechnology to improve agricultural output and food security.

Plant Proteins

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Dilek Uzunalioglu + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 7 2 5 4
eBook
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 8 6 3 6 6

Plant Proteins: Farm to Table addresses all aspects of plant proteins, including plant science, chemistry, processing, formulations, nutrition, and trends. This important reference also covers cereal and pulse plant-based and soy proteins and presents protein extraction and processing techniques, as well as ingredient principles and their application in formulating plant-based products, from ingredient interactions to processing to measurement science, including sensory. The book addresses not only the different types of plant proteins and their nutritional aspects but also plant protein processing and ingredients and formulating plant proteins to develop plant-based foods.It will be a welcomed addition to the libraries of food technologists, research scientists, product developers, process engineers, students and educators.

Insect Pathology

3rd Edition
October 1, 2025
Nemat Keyhani + 1 more
English
Hardback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 5 4 9 1
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 5 5 8 3

Insect Pathology, Third Edition offers the most comprehensive research on the topic of insect pathology, spanning the diversity of insects with a more diverse array of microbes. This book provides a full update on new approaches for studying the genetics, development, evolution, and ecology of insect pathogens. Written by leading researchers and experts, the book includes coverage of revolutionary genome editing tools, such as CRISPR-Cas9, which have been developed for multiple insect pathogen systems and provides insights into the molecular underpinnings of insect pathogens and their hosts. This book also updates modern molecular techniques, “omics” approaches, and newly applied findings.These new and revised topics are critical for understanding current perspectives in the field, making this book a needed reference for insect pathologists, entomologists, microbiologists, mycologists, nematologists, protistologists, ecologists, and practitioners of biological control of insect pests. New and long-time students of insect pathology will also find this new edition useful.

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