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Field Manual of Diseases on Trees and Shrubs
Springer 2013; US$ 149.99The Trees and Shrubs manual is a reference manual on diseases which attack trees, shrubs, and vines. The manual identifies various types of diseases which are known to invade these plants located throughout North, Central, and South America. The recordings include diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, viroids, phytoplasmas, and nematodes. Causal... more...
Bioenergy Feedstocks
Wiley 2013; US$ 199.95Bioenergy and biofuels are generated from a wide variety of feedstock. Fuels have been converted from a wide range of sources from vegetable oils to grains and sugarcane. Second generation biofuels are being developed around dedicated, non-food energy crops, such as switchgrass and Miscanthus, with an eye toward bioenergy sustainability. Bioenergy... more...
Phytophthora
CABI 2013; US$ 160.00Phytophthora diseases pose a major threat to a huge range of plant species, and have a significant economic impact on crops, forests, nurseries, greenhouses and natural areas worldwide. This is the first and only book to focus solely on phytophthora diseases. Kurt Lamour is internationally renowned as the leader in this field. It offers comprehensive... more...
The Biology of Apples and Pears
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 84.00Biology of Apples and Pears is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of pomology at the organ, tree and orchard level for researchers, students, fruit farmers and technical advisors. It describes the production of fruit with regard to key commercial factors, and under both temperate and tropical environmental conditions. more...
Mathematical Models of Crop Growth and Yield
Marcel Dekker Inc 2002; US$ 115.95Featuring solutions to various differential equations, this text considers different characteristics of the functions related to the phenomenological growth model. more...
Pesticides in Agriculture and the Environment
Marcel Dekker Inc 2002; US$ 209.95Exploring the agricultural, economic and regulatory factors that affect pesticide use, this text examines crop and pest ecology, integrated pest management principles and emerging analytical tools to improve the efficacy and cost-efficiency of pest control. more...
Physiology and Biotechnology Integration for Plant Breeding
Marcel Dekker Inc 2004; US$ 239.95In introducing 16 chapters by international scientists, Nguyen (soybean genomics and biotechnology, U. of Missouri-Columbia) and Blum (Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel) comment on the increasing pressures on plant breeding for sustainable agriculture. New technologies are increa more...
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Plant Breeding and Related Subjects
Haworth Press 2003; US$ 89.95The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Plant Breeding and Related Subjects is the first comprehensive book that contains clear and useful definitions of the terms associated with plant breeding and related scientific/technological disciplines. This well-organized guide defines all of the jargon surrounding this ever-evolving topic and provides helpful tables,... more...
Fruit and Vegetables
Wiley 2008; US$ 314.95The second edition of this very well-received book, which in its first edition was entitled Postharvest Technology of Fruits and Vegetables , has been welcomed by the community of postharvest physiologists and technologists who found the first edition of such great use. The book covers, in comprehensive detail, postharvest physiology as it applies... more...
Introduction to Plant Pathology
Wiley 2006; US$ 285.00This invaluable resource introduces the eleven types of organism that cause plant disease, ranging from higher plants to viroids and describes examples of cash and staple crop diseases that have caused human catastrophes. Early chapters cover serological and molecular techniques for the diagnosis of plant pathogens, epidemiology, methods for estimating... more...









