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Chelsea Green Publishing
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The Ecological Farm is the go-to guide for ecological growing, with a unique focus on reduced tillage, minimizing farm and garden inputs, and pest control. Reflecting the wisdom that farmer, consultant, and educator Helen Atthowe and her late husband, Carl Rosato, gained during decades of farming experience, this book guides readers on how to reduce or eliminate the use of outside inputs of fertilizer or pesticides, even those that are commonly used...
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This is a hands-on practical guide to the use of Trichoderma as a biocontrol, as part of sustainable disease control measures for Ganoderma disease in oil palm plantations. The manual provides background information on Ganoderma (basal stem rot), the most devastating disease of oil palm in Southeast Asia, as well as on the benefits of Trichoderma fungi in safe guarding yields. The disease is caused by soil-borne fungi, Ganoderma spp, which are found...
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Anyone who observes fruit trees may wonder how or why they behave in specific ways. Some trees grow upright while others have a spreading habit. Some produce many flowers and small immature fruit only to drop most of the fruit later on, others grow more strongly on their sunny side than their shady side. It is common to ascribe such behavior to the tree as a whole and state that trees preferentially "allocate" resources to specific organs. However,...
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This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and Ganoderma is the most devastating disease of oil palm. The authors are all actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding and bring together the many aspects of seedling disease testing in to one integrated manual.
Presenting sound practices based on scientific...
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This book is meant to be used as class notes for the courses on diseases of horticultural crops. The book discusses The Occurrence Patterns, Symptoms, Epidemiology, Management Strategies, and Names of Susceptible and Resistant Cultivars for The Diseases. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students because of the following reasons. o The Book Covers the Entire ICAR Syllabus. o The Book Has Been Presented in a Student Friendly...
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This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe physical bunch and oil analysis of oil palm.
Bunch and oil analysis laboratories are set up at oil mills to assess production, yield potential of plantations and oil extraction rates relative to targets. The higher the oil yields produced by the planting material, the less land that is needed to achieve a specific level of production, hence helping in the sustainability of the crop.
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This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe field trials in oil palm breeding. Such trials are essential in almost all breeding programmes to select and verify the real expression of different target traits. In oil palm these include yield, tolerance to pests and diseases, oil quality and adaptability to the environment. Breeding success is dependent upon the genetic resources available and the effectiveness of screening amongst these for the...
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This is a practical guide to seed germination in oil palm for both breeding and genetic studies as well as commercial seed production. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and this manual provides step-by-step illustrated methods, written by practitioners actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding.
Presenting sound practices based on scientific innovation and knowledge, this guide brings together the many aspects of seed germination...
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Oil palm is the world's most important oil crop and crossing is used extensively in the production of commercial seed, breeding and genetic studies. This book illustrates crossing techniques to maximize success and safeguard purity, enabling the production of high quality seeds to grow-on as planting material and in breeding superior cultivars.
Presenting sound practices based on scientific innovation in plant breeding, this guide provides techniques...
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This is a practical guide to mutation breeding in oil palm, representing completely novel work supported by the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division (Vienna, Austria). Oil palm is the top oil crop and the only major crop and only oil crop not to have been improved by plant mutation breeding. The manual is hands-on, providing step-by-step illustrated methods in mutation induction, mutation detection and mutant line development...
12) The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply--And What We Can Do About It
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This book is based on hard scientific research, most of which has been conducted outside of the United States, where food production lobbies have fought hard against this kind of research. Pawlick exposes an alarming trend in the food available in our grocery stores. This is not an argument about unhealthy, processed foods, rather it exposes the problems with all foods, including fruits and vegetables that people commonly assume are healthy.
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The book will be useful for the under-graduate and postgraduate students, teachers, scientists, administrators, planners and others engaged in the field of Horticulture. It will also serve as a ready source of information for the candidates appearing for undergraduate and post-graduate entrance examinations and comprehensive tests conducted by the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the Council of...
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This antique volume contains a detailed treatise on plants and how they grow, with a wealth of detailed and interesting information on the biology of plant cells, roots, leaves, and flowers. Written in clear language and profusely illustrated, this book will appeal to those with a keen interest in the subject.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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From previously barren moorland in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Ian Hamilton Finlay has created a unique garden as an encompassing work of art. Little Sparta is a magical combination of culture and horticulture, poetry and planting, philosophy and myth. Ian Hamilton Finlay began his work at Little Sparta in the mid-1960s. With friends and collaborators, around a group of old farm buildings he has fashioned landscapes, streams, bridges, glades,...
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An instant classic upon its publication in 1931, this charmingly antiquated book opens a window on a more innocent time, when life was simpler, and men and women were more intimately connected to nature. Mrs. Grieve's encyclopedia contains reliable information on more than 1,000 English and American plants, providing practical advice on cultivation, uses, and effects. But its real value for the modern reader is its delightful "browsability." Far from...
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This vintage text contains a detailed treatise on horticulture for beginner gardeners. It places a particular focus on producing crops for market gardening, as well as the more traditional aspect of flower gardening. It includes information on the cultivation of orchard fruits, such as apples and plums; small fruits such as strawberries and raspberries; of garden vegetables for the table; of flowers of all sorts, including shrubbery and ornamental...
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Extrait : "L'Abricotier aime les terrains légers, chauds, sablonneux et généralement les bonnes terres de jardin. Il redoute les terres schisteuses ou froides, compactes, submergées ou sillonnées de cours d'eaux souterrains peu éloignés de la surface du sol ; quand les racines atteignent des couches de cette nature, les jeunes rameaux dépérissent et des gourmands se développent à la base des grosses branches."
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