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Natural Products in Plant Pest Management
CABI 2010; US$ 160.00Overzealous and indiscriminate use of many synthetic pesticides during recent decades in the control of plant pests has resulted in a number of environmental and toxicological problems. Reducing the release of synthetic chemicals into the environment requires that alternative sources of chemicals are developed that can be used safely in the management... more...
Biological Control in Plant Protection
Manson Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 69.99This colour handbook, now updated for a second edition, is designed to help the reader anticipate and recognise specific problems of pest management and then resolve them using the natural enemies of pests ? insects, mites and diseases. more...
Optimal Control of Greenhouse Cultivation
CRC Press 2010; US$ 104.95Providing a single-source reference on the development and state-of-the-art in optimal greenhouse control, this book focuses on model-based methods to achieve the best economical result. The authors discuss physical models of greenhouse climate and biological models of crop growth, as well as classical rule-based and multivariable feedback controllers.... more...
Biodiversity in Trust
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 67.00An invaluable source of reference for those concerned with conserving the biodiversity of our staple crop species. more...
The Biology of Citrus
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 30.00Concise and heavily illustrated account of citrus biology, physiology, genetics and cultivation. more...
African Smallholders
CABI 2010; US$ 160.00Based on highly topical international research in a high-priority area, this book documents the farm-level effects of the reorientation of agricultural policies with different themes for the different countries such as micro-credit, infrastructure, cash crop production and food security. It discusses staple food production in sub-Saharan Africa and... more...
Tomato Diseases
Manson Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 199.95Following the successful first edition, this revised edition of Tomato Dieases, contains 680 pages and 900 color photos and diagrams, covering every imaginable symptom, pest and disease affecting the tomato. This is the definitive work on the diseases and disorders of the tomato, a worldwide crop of significant economic importance. more...
An Introduction to Plant Breeding
Wiley 2013; US$ 104.95Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so on that we see in our modern day crops and ornamental plants. In recent years the techniques used have been rapidly advanced and refined to include molecular, cell and genetic techniques. An Introduction to Plant Breeding... more...
Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress
Wiley 2013; US$ 590.00Abiotic stress, such as high salinity and drought is the most common challenge for sustainable food production in large parts of the world, in particular in emerging countries. The ongoing and expected global climate change will further increase these challenges in many areas, making improved stress resistance of crops a key topic for the 21st Century.... more...
Great Australian Rabbit Stories
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 25.37'Although these were the years of Depression with unemployment and near-starvation, the rabbit industry gave men like my father an independence and way of earning a living. It was fortunate, too, that Mum was a creative rabbit cook. As one farmer said, "Although the rabbits were a pest, we would'a damned well starved without 'em!"' Melva Graham In... more...









