The pressing need to improve crop yields has brought increased focus on the importance of mineral nutrition. The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants presents a comprehensive review of essential crop nutrients. It provides information on nutrient uptake, discusses methods to improve crop productivity without degrading the environment, and includes authoritative coverage of experimental results regarding macro/micronutrients. The text compiles data on agricultural production; inorganic and organic fertilizer consumption; maximizing efficient nutrient use, and improving crop yields at lower cost. Extensive tables and figures throughout illustrate the latest data regarding improved crop yield worldwide.
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Soil Science
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With international contributors presenting an informed and integrated approach to the control of havoc-wrecking species, this book provides updated information on invading plants, their impacts on forest ecosystems, and control strategies. It addresses such important issues as the socioeconomic and policy aspects of plant invasion and offers complete coverage of their ecological impacts and the varied levels of threats in diverse situations. The editors and chapter authors take an integrated approach to the onslaught of invasive species, spotlighting the challenges they pose in the maintenance of biological diversity and the sustainable production of forest wealth.
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Forestry
Botany
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En nuestro mundo moderno, materialista, resulta sencillo separar la espiritualidad de la vida cotidiana. Pero la espiritualidad no es sólo para los santos, ni queda limitada a los cultos religiosos o a los libros sagrados. Debe formar parte de nuestra existencia ordinaria, cotidiana debe estar presente, implícitamente, en los negocios, la política, la agricultura, la cocina. . . y en nuestras relaciones personales. Para ejemplificar esto, Satish Kumar se fundamenta en la tradición ayurvédica india, que considera que la mente tiene tres gunas o cualidades primarias sattva quietud, pureza y claridad, rajas pasión y energía y tamas apatía e ignorancia. Estas cualidades pueden aplicarse a nuestro trabajo y a nuestro entorno por ejemplo, hay alimentos sátvicos, rajásicos y tamásicos. El objetivo ayurvédico es llevar una vida que sea sencilla y cercana a la naturaleza sátvica, para reducir las tendencias rajásicas y evitar las tamásicas. Cuando nos observamos a la luz de las tres gunas, éstas pueden orientarnos en la dirección en la que deseamos avanzar. Pueden ayudarnos a recuperar el arte de vivir, dirigiéndonos hacia una existencia apacible y satisfecha. Satish explica que no existe un dualismo entre el espíritu y la materia toda materia está imbuida de espíritu, y éste se manifiesta por medio de aquélla. Este paradigma integrador constituye la esencia de este libro.

This unique single source integrates tree transgenesis, functional genomics, and structural genomics to present, for the first time, a unified approach to research on the molecular biology of forest trees. A distinguished panel of scientists, researchers, and educators from around the world have combined their efforts to present the most up-to-date information on genome mapping, the molecular biology of wood formation and more, with chapters exploring every aspect of this quickly evolving field. Examining EST databases, proteomics, modification of flowering, microsatellite DNA markers, ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, and much more, Molecular Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees is an important addition to your professional or teaching collection. Helpful tables and figures make important points easy to access and understand. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.
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Forestry
Genetics
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This comprehensive book presents the basic concepts and applied techniques of plant cell and tissue culture. Covering the history of in vitro breeding as well as emerging research trends, In Vitro Plant Breeding offers specific techniques for crop improvement and breeding. This helpful book is written in clear language illustrated with examples, schematic descriptions, and tables to make the concepts clear. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.
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Botany
Genetics
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This comprehensive book presents the basic concepts and applied techniques of plant cell and tissue culture. Covering the history of in vitro breeding as well as emerging research trends, In Vitro Plant Breeding offers specific techniques for crop improvement and breeding. This helpful book is written in clear language illustrated with examples, schematic descriptions, and tables to make the concepts clear. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.
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Genetics
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Using a tutorial approach, this comprehensive text introduces the concepts of analog and digital communications. The language used is simple and easy to understand, and each chapter contains illustrative examples, exercises, worked-out problems, and end-of-chapter questions which are drawn from recent examinations conducted by various technical institutes and universities. The multiple choice questions are particularly useful for making a quick assessment of comprehension of the concepts. This self-contained book is ideal for professionals and students pursuing courses in electronics and communications engineering or related disciplines.
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Analog Communications
Digital Signal Processing
Electrical Engineering Communications
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Puesto que la alergia tiene un carácter crónico, el mejor recurso para afrontarla pasa por aprender a evitar los alérgenos, o factores causantes de aquélla. Escrito para legos en la materia, este libro aporta una información completa, sucinta y fundamentada sobre todos los aspectos de la alergia. El enfoque convencional de la medicina moderna tiene sus limitaciones en el momento de tratar este trastorno, por ello se describen también detalladamente los últimos avances de terapias alternativas contrastadas. Además, se abordan los aspectos del diagnóstico para una mejor comprensión de las diferentes dolencias y sus tratamientos.
Es un libro único en su género, dado que no se limita al tratamiento alopático, sino que ofrece una guía fundamentada de terapias alternativas procedentes de distintas tradiciones y fuentes: ayurveda, yoga, homeopatía, naturopatía, magnetoterapia, cromoterapia, digitopuntura, musicoterapia, Vastu Shastra y un amplio etcétera.

Designed specifically for students of economics, business economics, and allied areas at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, this book includes specially contributed articles by acknowledged experts of the discipline from all over the world. It covers critical areas like theory of externalities and market failure, valuation and accounting of environmental impacts, economic instruments for industrial pollution and environmental resources, poverty and environmental degradation, and corporate environmental management. The book also explores how to make development more sustainable, micro economics for ecological sustainability, and environmental policy in open economies.
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Ecological Economics
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Drawing on the collective expertise of world authorities in the field, this comprehensive volume employs extensive use of tables and figures to demonstrate how ecologically sustainable agroecosystems can meet the challenges of enhancing crop productivity, soil fertility, and environmental sustainability. Divided into four sections, this book studies tree-crop interactions in tropical and temperate climates. It covers above and below ground interactions, alley cropping, tri-trophic interactions, ecologically based pest management, and the chemistry and practical potential of chemically mediated plant interactions. It demonstrates computer modeling to predict effective designs, and addresses the socio-economic factors including different farming systems and technological tools.
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Forestry
Agriculture
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