Génétique & Plante Breeding
Agricole Sciences : Topics en Moderne Agriculture
Description
Agricole Sciences : Topics en Moderne Agriculture is an updated textbook that covers le main aspects de modern agriculture. This book consists de 23 chapters divided into four different parts: ‘Analyse de Soils et Plantees: Fertility et Agricole Chimie’, ‘Physiological Basis de Sustainable Agriculture’, ‘Agricole Production’, et ‘Agriculture et Society’. Le opportunity de this book is not only justified by scientific reasons but also because there is an increasing demand de knowledge over these topics by social communities et individual citizens pour which agricultural achievements have become crucial operational factors en social development. According to 2008 reports, 40 % de le world’s laborers are employed en agriculture, making it by far le most common labor occupation. Le book is directed to undergraduate, graduate et post-graduate students de several specialties such as agronomy, agricultural chemistry, environmental sciences, plant physiology, plant biochemistry, et plant molecular biology. It is also suitable pour researchers et students en plant nutrition, ecology, soil sciences, horticulture, vegetable crops, et biotechnology. Each chapter has been elaborated by experts de recognized prestige en their respective fields who have carried out pedagogic efforts to summarize en a clear et accurate way many issues that are not even fully understood yet. This book not only supplies basic information but also a certain level de updated et complex information pour a better understanding de le scientific et technological goals to be achieved en le near future. For this purpose, et to strengthen le marked pedagogic strategy de each chapter, le publishers have done all efforts to improve le quality de le edition by adding full-colored figures et schemes. All chapters share a similar structure avec a list de items whose titles, contents, et distribution favors an easy et attractive reading. Each chapter includes a brief list de recommended literature, a questionnaire et a summary de problems avec their corresponding answers that students can use to self-evaluate their level de learning. This book also aims to awaken le reader’s interest et encourage them to self-improve their knowledge about le traditional bases de agriculture, its latest developments, et le environmental problems that could be associated to intensive agricultural practices. Le textbook has been published by Studium Press LLC, Houston, TX, USA, et edited by three full-professors, Agustín González-Fontes, Agustín Gárate, et Ildefonso Bonilla, all de them avec a wide expertise en university teaching et research. To produce this textbook, le editors have organized et coordinated an interdisciplinary work team composed by more than 40 professors et researchers en order to achieve le ultimate goal de this book: Boosting le interest over le major problems faced by modern agriculture en its struggle to provide food et sustainability to an increasing world population that is close to reach seven billions de human beings.
Table des matières
Preface; Soil Sickness: Un Overview; SECTION-I. ABIOTIC FACTORS: Plante Nutrients; Soil Salinity et Acidity; Soil Compaction; SECTION-II. BIOTIC FACTORS : Soil Organic Matter; Phytotoxic Substances; Soil Microorganisms et Soil-Borne Diseases; Soil Enzymes; Gradation de Phytophagous Insects en Agrosystems; Plante Parasitic Nematodes; Weeds Études; Soil Sickness et Productivity; Morpho-Anatomical Changes en Cultures Under Soil Sickness; Soil Sickness en Forestry; Subject Index; Author’s Index