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

A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
María Patricia López Ramírez + 1 more
English

A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling delves into the intricate global landscape of nutritional labeling for consumer packaged goods. It addresses the complexity and lack of uniform guidelines that plague food industry professionals in effectively conveying nutritional impacts on dietary choices. Additionally, it presents a global perspective on nutritional and front package labeling, offering solutions for standardizing the nutritional table process. The book includes historical milestones and case studies from countries like the U.S., Switzerland, Colombia, and Chile. It provides practical tools for interpreting front-of-pack labeling and insights into the regulatory landscape and future trends in nutritional labeling.

Future Fat Alternatives

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Zong Meng
English
Paperback
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Future Fat Alternatives: Concepts, Structuring and Food Application takes a deep dive into the strategies for the development of fat alternatives for food applications. It covers all structuring strategies, including oleogels, emulsion gels and foamed gels as well as cell-cultured fats. In addition, it details other applications such as additive manufacturing, and fat alternatives in different food applications and discusses their nutritional benefits. Divided into eight sections, “Future Fat Alternatives: Concepts, Structuring and Food Application, begins with an overview of the structural-propertie... relationship in traditional fats then segues into the benefits and challenges of fat alternatives, the prospects and challenges of cell-cultured fats, the additive manufacturing of fat analogues and how they pave the way towards novel food development. The applications of different fat replacers and their nutritional benefits in bakery, meat, chocolate, and cheese products as well as nutraceutical delivery systems will also be discussed.

Temperate Tree Fruits and Nuts

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
George Manganaris
English

Temperate Tree Fruits and Nuts serves as a comprehensive resource, providing up-to-date knowledge about economically significant temperate fruit crops. This textbook covers the history, genetic improvements, and growth physiology of these crops. It details orchard establishment, management practices, and harvest considerations, making it a standalone guide to sustainable fruit crop production in temperate climates. Targeted toward undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as professionals in pomology, horticulture, and related fields, the book is essential for researchers, farmers, consultants, and agribusiness professionals.Each chapter, authored by an expert, provides an introduction, botany, orchard management, propagation, rootstocks, cultivars, and disease and pest management. It also covers ripening, harvest criteria, postharvest physiology, and technology, complemented by high-quality illustrations and a question bank for instructors.

Bioactive Components for Functional Foods

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Celestino Santos-Buelga + 2 more
English

Bioactive Components for Functional Foods defines each chemical family of bioactives and collects many of the functional components described in foods and their implications on nutrition and health. It also discusses non-phytochemical components, such as probiotics, bioactive peptides, and fatty acids and their relationship to health. Readers will learn about the metabolism and bioavailability of bioactives, interactions with gut microbiota, interactions of probiotics as food ingredients with other food components, and more.Readers will also find the latest marketing and regulatory issues for functional foods while learning about future trends of micro and nanoencapsulation, delivery systems, and nutraceuticals.

Magnetic Nanomaterials for Plant and Soil Systems Improvement

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Azamal Husen
English

Magnetic Nanomaterials for Plant and Soil Systems Improvement discusses the impact of nanotechnology on plant growth, disease resistance, and soil enrichment, specifically focusing on magnetic nanomaterials like iron, iron oxide, cobalt, and nickel ferrite nanoparticles. The book starts with an introduction to the properties and fabrication processes of magnetic nanomaterials for plant and soil system application. It then extensively examines the influence of these materials on plant biology, growth, production, and the broader plant-soil system. This book includes discussions on the environmental safety of nanomaterials, plant stress management, plant disease control, and ethical considerations associated with the use of magnetic nanomaterials in plant and soil systems. Tailored for advanced students, scientists, and researchers in materials science, nanotechnology, and agriculture, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of how magnetic nanomaterials can effectively enhance crop performance.

Advances in Agronomy

1st Edition
Volume 194
October 1, 2025
Donald L. Sparks
English

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 194, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, each written by an international board of authors.

Fermented Foods for Wellness

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Muhammad Shahzad Aslam + 2 more
English

Fermented Foods for Wellness: Understanding Processes and Biosensors delves into the beneficial impact of fermented foods on reducing chronic inflammation, which is linked to numerous diseases. The book comprehensively explores how fermented foods like miso, kefir, and turmeric can enhance bioavailability and promote an anti-inflammatory response in the body. By examining the role of inflammation in various health conditions such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease and arthritis, the book provides valuable insights into the relationship between diet and health.The second section, titled The Industrial Fermentation Process, discusses how biosensor technology deciphers complex flavor compounds in fermented foods. It highlights sustainable fermentation practices and their transformative impact on various industries. The book underscores the importance of optimizing bioreactors to create ideal conditions for microbial growth, thus paving the way for future product development. By combining scientific research with practical applications, this book serves as an essential guide for understanding the intersection of nutrition, health, and industrial processes.

Functional RNAs in Plants

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Jen-Tsung Chen
English

Functional RNAs in Plants: Developing Climate-Resilient and Stress-Resistant Crops explores the role of various RNAs, including microRNAs, small interfering RNAs, long non-coding RNAs, circular RNAs, and CRISPR guide RNAs in plant stress responses. These RNAs are crucial for identifying, designing, and analyzing functional aspects that help plants withstand abiotic and biotic stressors under changing climate conditions. The book emphasizes advances in bioinformatics, multiple omics, and high-throughput technologies to understand better and use RNAs for improved agricultural production.The book comprehensively reviews the latest technical achievements and current agricultural applications, focusing on developing climate-resilient and disease-resistant crops. Through methods, applications, and case studies, it presents valuable insights for academics, researchers, and advanced-level students in plant science, making it a crucial resource for enhancing agricultural practices in the face of global environmental changes.

The Science and Culture of Latin American Foods

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Sonia G. Sáyago-Ayerdi + 3 more
English
Paperback
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The Science and Culture of Latin American Foods: Harnessing Ingredients for Health combines science and technology to demonstrate the importance of rescuing and preserving traditional and ancestral knowledge to exploit the functional benefits of the regions’ many roots, plants, seeds, insects, and more. Divided into four sections, Ingredients, Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Cuisine, the book discusses the sustainable development of these ingredients while highlighting origin, production, classification, and medicinal properties. Readers will discover the potential of potent bioactive peptides derived from native foods like cacao, chipilín leaves, and Huauzontle, a pre-Hispanic ingredient thriving and surviving in Mexican cuisine.In addition, they will learn how Asia and Africa influence Latin American cuisine and about the importance these regional culinary dishes have in global gastronomy today.

AI Technologies for Crop Breeding

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Jen-Tsung Chen
English

AI Technologies for Crop Breeding offers the latest insights into the use of artificial intelligence models to improve plant health and production. Presenting applications of AI technologies in plant biology, biotechnology, and crop breeding, it explores practices for the mitigation of biotic and abiotic stressors as well as other plant growth challenges.AI-based technologies are expected to advance approaches to plant functional genomics and multiple omics, resulting in smarter and more efficient crop breeding for next-generation agriculture helping to address the challenges of the increasing human population and the globally changing climate. AI tools such as machine learning, particularly deep learning, have been applied to predict chief players in complicated biological networks, increasing the understanding of in-depth mechanisms of plant-pathogen and plant-environment interactions. Additionally, responses of plants facing stress can be modeled using AI technologies, and the resulting data are valuable not only to plant stress physiology but also for stress-resilient and disease-resistant crop breeding.This book introduces AI technologies for studying plant biology, focusing on machine learning and deep learning models for integrating multiple omics approaches and revealing the knowledge of plant functional genomes. Technological advancements and emerging applications of machine learning and deep learning in genomic selection, genome-wide association study (GWAS), phenotyping and constructing phenomics, and transcriptomics are also featured in this book.AI Technologies for Crop Breeding is an ideal reference for researchers, academics, and advanced-level students and professors in the fields of plant sciences, plant stress physiology, bioinformatics, systems biology, and crop breeding.

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