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  • Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

    Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

    by Pamela C. Ronald, R. W. Adamchak ...
    By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. Clearly, there must be a better way to meet the need for increased food production. Written as part memoir, part ... Read more

    PHP719.39

  • Mosquitopia

    The Place of Pests in a Healthy World

    Edited by Marcus Hall, Dan Tamïr ...
    This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth, only a few dozen of them are ... Read more

    Free

  • Oceanography and Marine Biology

    An annual review. Volume 59

    Edited by Stephen J. Hawkins ...
    Series series Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review
    CHOICE Highly Recommended, Sept 2022Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Life of Trees

    What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

    by Peter Wohlleben, Suzanne Simard ...
    Translated by Jane Billinghurst ...
    Series Book 1 - The Mysteries of Nature
    A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.“Breaks entirely new ground ... [Peter Wohlleben] has listened to trees and decoded ... Read more

    PHP1,047.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Botany

    by Charles Kovacs ...
    Series series Waldorf Education Resources
    Charles Kovacs characterizes different plants, from fungi, algae and lichens, to the lily and rose families. He describes the parts of each plant and their growth cycle.It is recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12). ... Read more

    PHP837.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Flower A Day

    by Miranda Janatka ...
    Series series A Day
    Fascinating and richly illustrated stories of flowers for every day of the year.Every day of the year a different species of flower bursts into bloom somewhere in the world. This collection of 366 flowers reveals not only their beauty but the fascinating botanical, literary, folkloric and historical stories behind them.Discover the magnificent magnolia, which evolved more than 95 million years ago ... Read more

    PHP983.19

  • Handbook of Edible Weeds

    Herbal Reference Library

    by James A. Duke ...
    Series series Herbal Reference Library
    Handbook of Edible Weeds contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of 100 edible weeds, representing 100 genera of higher plant species. Some of the species are strictly American, but many are cosmopolitan weeds. Each account includes common names recognized by the Weed Science Society of America, standard Latin scientific names, uses, and distribution (geographic and ecological). ... Read more

    PHP13,115.75

  • Sterile Insect Technique

    Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

    Edited by Victor A. Dyck, Jorge Hendrichs, A.S. Robinson ...
    The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from ... Read more

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  • Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future

    by John E. Bradshaw ...
    This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are also presented to strike the right balance between being as simple as possible but as complex as necessary.The United Nations predicts that the global human population will continue rising to 9.0 billion by 2050. World food ... Read more

    PHP13,028.29

  • Trellises and Stakes as Used in the Vineyard

    by Various ...
    This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to growing grapes, with a focus on training vines with the use of trellises and stakes. Written in simple language and profusely illustrated, this volume is highly recommended for budding gardeners with an interest in grape production, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Walls and ... Read more

    PHP407.46 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agricultural Nanobiotechnology

    Modern Agriculture for a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Fernando López-Valdez, Fabián Fernández-Luqueño ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Nanobiotechnology in agriculture is a new knowledge area that offers novel possibilities to achieve high productivity levels at manageable costs during the production and merchandising of crops. This book shows us how we can use the cutting-edge knowledge about agriculture, nanotechnology, and biotechnology to increase the agricultural productivity and shape a sustainable future in order to ... Read more

    PHP9,349.89

  • Natural Pesticides and Allelochemicals

    Advances and Trends in Crop Protection

    Edited by Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira, Leo M.L. Nollet, Ravendra Kumar, Eloisa Helena de Aguiar Andrade, Antônio Pedro da Silva Souza Filho ...
    Natural pesticides and allelochemicals are used for protection against invasive plants, but when released into the environment they can have both positive and negative effects on plants. This book discusses a holistic and sustainable approach that balances effective pest management with minimizing environmental impacts, promoting biodiversity, and ensuring food safety and quality. It brings ... Read more

    PHP13,698.67

  • Agriculturally Important Fungi for Sustainable Agriculture

    Volume 2: Functional Annotation for Crop Protection

    Edited by Ajar Nath Yadav, Shashank Mishra, Divjot Kour, Neelam Yadav, Anil Kumar ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Microbes are ubiquitous in nature. Among microbes, fungal communities play an important role in agriculture, the environment, and medicine. Vast fungal diversity has been found in plant systems. The fungi associated with any plant system are in the form of epiphytic, endophytic, and rhizospheric fungi. These associated fungi play important roles in plant growth, crop yield, and soil health.The ... Read more

    PHP8,726.49

  • Advances in Sorghum Science

    Botany, Production, and Crop Improvement

    Edited by Ratikanta Maiti, Humberto González Rodríguez, Ch. Aruna Kumar, Sameena Begum ...
    This new volume, Advances in Sorghum Science: Botany, Production, and Crop Improvement, provides an easy-to-read and comprehensive treatment of the sorghum crop. With the world’s production of sorghum topping over 55 million tons annually, sorghum is very important for as a staple dietary food for much of the world as a rich source of micronutrients and macronutrients, as an ingredient in the ... Read more

    PHP8,740.92

  • Genetic Enhancement in Major Food Legumes

    Advances in Major Food Legumes

    Edited by Kul Bhushan Saxena, Rachit K. Saxena, Rajeev K. Varshney ...
    The protein molecule is the basic building block of every living entity. Its deficiency leads to restricted growth and development of individuals. Globally, such malnutrition is on the rise due to various reasons such as rapid population growth, stagnation of productivity, and ever-rising costs. Millions of people, especially in developing and under-developed countries, suffer from protein ... Read more

    PHP8,103.09

  • Ecological Law in Practice

    Case Studies for a Transformative Approach

    Edited by Geoffrey Garver ...
    This book presents a series of "ecological law" case studies, designed to illustrate in concrete, real-world ways how ecological law would transform law in a range of diverse contexts.Ecological law is an emerging, and currently mostly theoretical, discipline grounded in the need to shift away from anthropocentric legal systems, which aim to promote economic growth using strong protections of ... Read more

    PHP3,613.53

  • Entomovectoring for Precision Biocontrol and Enhanced Pollination of Crops

    Edited by Guy Smagghe, Otto Boecking, Bettina Maccagnani, Marika Mänd, Peter G. Kevan ...
    This book focuses on entomovectoring, also known as apivectoring, the method used for managing pollinators to increase crop yields and employ strategies of biocontrol in greenhouses and open fields. It is written by experts working in academia and industry from the different continents of the world. Over the past 25 years Research and Development has successfully investigated the potential of ... Read more

    PHP10,596.59

  • Plant Genetic Resources and Climate Change

    by Gerald Moore, Robert Zeigler, Richard Betts, Pam Berry, Andy Jarvis, Nora Castaneda Alvarez, William Erskine, Abdelbagi Ismail, Geoff Hawtin, Kenneth McNally, Helen Ougham, Ianto Thomas, Mauricio Bellon, Sue Armstrong, Wayne Powell, PV Prasad, John Sheehy, Hari Upadhyaya, David Mackill, Jeremy Pritchard, Ben Vosman, Colette Broekgaarden, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Professor Nigel Maxted ...
    Series Book 20 - CABI Climate Change Series
    * Provides specific examples of germplasm research related to climate change threats * Edited by internationally renowned experts in the field * The final chapter of the book draws a synthesis of the many issues raised within the book ... Read more

    PHP6,596.69

  • Cold Tolerance in Plants

    Physiological, Molecular and Genetic Perspectives

    Edited by Shabir Hussain Wani, Venura Herath ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions. Numerous plant types of tropical or subtropical origin are injured or killed by non-freezing low temperature, and display a range of symptoms of chilling injury such as chlorosis, necrosis, or growth retardation. In contrast, chilling tolerant species thrive well at such ... Read more

    PHP8,726.49

  • Community Biodiversity Management

    Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources

    Edited by Walter Simon de Boef, Abishkar Subedi, Nivaldo Peroni, Marja Thijssen, Elizabeth O'Keeffe ...
    Series series Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity
    The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by those engaged in this arena. CBM contributes to the empowerment of farming communities to manage their ... Read more

    PHP5,129.13

  • Plastids

    Methods and Protocols

    Edited by Eric Maréchal ...
    Series series Springer Protocols
    This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new and updated chapters that explore our current view on plastid evolution, structure, and function. The chapters in this book are organized into three parts and cover topics such as plastid evolution, plasticity, and functional and structural diversity; techniques used to visualize, fractionate, purify, and study primary plastids ... Read more

    PHP11,843.29

  • Common Chinese Materia Medica

    Volume 8

    Edited by Huagu Ye, Chuyuan Li, Wencai Ye, Feiyan Zeng ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This eighth volume describes 272 species of 13 families of medicinal plants, which are commonly used in Chinese medicine. The most important species are Adenophora stricta, Adenophora tetraphylla, Codonopsis pilosula, Codonopsis tangshen and Platycodon grandiflorus of Campanulaceae; Lobelia chinensis of Lobeliaceae; Hyoscyamus niger, Lycium barbarum and Lycium ruthenicum of Solanaceae; Cuscuta ... Read more

    PHP5,609.69

  • Technological Interventions in Management of Irrigated Agriculture

    Edited by Megh R. Goyal, Susmitha S. Nambuthiri, Richard Koech ...
    Series series Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering
    With a roster of international contributors, this volume offers an abundance of solutions to address agricultural water management challenges in today’s water-scarce areas of the world. The authors present studies on farmer-friendly irrigation scheduling methods, model-based analysis of crop water requirements, ways to optimize surface irrigation systems, and hydraulic design and management of ... Read more

    PHP9,618.21

  • The Almond Tree Genome

    Edited by Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, Angel Fernandez i Marti, Pedro Martinez-Gomez ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together the latest information on almond genomics and transcriptomics, with a particular focus on cutting-edge findings, tools, and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis with regard to the most important agronomic traits.Cultivated almond [(Prunus dulcis (Miller) D. A. Webb, syn. Prunus amygdalus Batsch., Amygdalus communis L., Amygdalus dulcis Mill.)] is a tree ... Read more

    PHP12,466.69