Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 22
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Climate change.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Plant Sciences.; Climate Change.; Soil Science & Conservation.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,...

Table of Contents:

• 01 Animal waste: opportunities and challenges
• 02 Soil microorganisms can reduce P loss from cropping systems
• 03 Greenhouse technology for agriculture under arid and semi-arid conditions
• 04 Biochar for Agriculture in Pakistan
• 05 Effect of UV-B radiation on leguminous plants
• 06 Control of fungal diseases in agricultural crops by chitinase and glucanase transgenes
• 07 Bioengineering hairy roots: phytoremediation, secondary metabolism, molecular pharming, plant-plant interactions and biofuels
• 08 Soil management to optimize water in rice-wheat
• 09 Microbial inoculants for soil quality and plant fitness
• 10 Conservation Agriculture in Tanzania.