This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth exploration of maize, one of the world’s most vital cereal crops. The book covers a wide range of topics, including maize genetics and breeding, physiology, crop production, protection, seed production, and value addition. It integrates current knowledge across key domains such as agronomy, pathology, entomology, biotechnology, biochemistry, and farm mechanization, with special emphasis on different maize variants.Unlock the full potenti...

The book explores comprehensive demonstration of the performance analytics following the implementation of the authentication and fraud detection system strategies. These evaluations are based on different performance metrics such as accuracy, true positive rate, true negative rate, precision, g-mean, f1-score and receiver operating characteristic curve. This book highlights effectiveness of the implemented authentication and fraud detection system based on their performance statistics. Ad...

This book, embarks the reader on a journey into the forefront of innovation where science, engineering, and technology converge to address the pressing challenges of our time. Through a captivating exploration of cutting-edge research, real-world case studies, and visionary insights, this book illuminates the dynamic forces shaping our collective journey towards a more sustainable and prosperous future. The book also explores how breakthroughs in science, engineering, and technology are re...

This book is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge research that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in modern engineering and applied sciences. This book features 26 chapters, each delving into innovative methodologies, advanced techniques, and sustainable solutions across a diverse range of disciplines. Each chapter presents rigorous analysis, practical applications, and forward-thinking solutions, making this book an essential resource for researchers, engineers, and pro...

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases together with ways of controlling them such as disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and weed management

This book presents the applications of future technologies to overcome the toughest humanitarian challenges from an engineering approach. COVID-19, a worldwide pandemic, has limited many physical operational areas and at the same time has motivated to uplift the initiative to digitalize the world. Society is facing ever more intense and protracted humanitarian crises, and as a result, the global community is pressed to find new ways to help people and communities in need. This interdiscipl...

This is an open access book. The covid-19 pandemic today forces humans to do almost all activities from home. Consequently, inventions in many fields of engineering technology are needed to facilitate those activities. First, human activities mainly are based on information technology today and internet connection is very important. People generate, send, and receive data by their smartphones every time and everything is connected to the internet. Equipment becomes smarter to assist the ow...

This unique book covers the molecular aspects of plant stress and the various industrial applications. Chapters cover many important topics in the biology of plant stress, including morphological and physiological changes of plants due to accumulation of pollutants; the types of stress for enhanced biofuel production from plant biomass; plant adaptation due to different types of environmental stresses; potential applications of microRNAs to improve abiotic stress tolerance in plants; plant...

This book focuses on new and emerging data mining solutions that offer a greater level of transparency than existing solutions. Transparent data mining solutions with desirable properties (e.g. effective, fully automatic, scalable) are covered in the book. Experimental findings of transparent solutions are tailored to different domain experts, and experimental metrics for evaluating algorithmic transparency are presented. The book also discusses societal effects of black box vs. transparen...

This book highlights the recent research works on mechanical, manufacturing and plant engineering presented during the 7th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering (ICMMPE 2021) held on 29th November 2021. It highlights the latest advances in the emerging areas, brings together researchers and professionals in the field and provides a valuable platform for exchanging ideas and fostering collaboration. Addressing real-world problems concerning joining tech...

This book covers the fundamentals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and higher plant symbiosis with potential implications in crop production. It provides new insights into our understanding of the mechanisms of AMF-mediated plant growth regulation and stress tolerance covering the most recent biochemical, physiological, molecular, environmental, and ecological studies. Focusing on AMF-induced physiological and molecular mechanisms of enhanced tolerance to stress, environmental stress ...

This book features selected research papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cyber Intelligence and Information Retrieval (CIIR 2023) held at the Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, in association with CSI Kolkata section on 14-15 December 2023.Cyber intelligence and information retrieval are closely related fields that deal with the collection, analysis, and utilization of data and information from various digital sources. These fields are crucia...