£69.99
£69.99
As agriculture faces challenges from climate change, harnessing the soil microbiome is crucial. This book integrates the latest research with practical applications, providing innovative solutions to enhance productivity, improve soil health, and foster a sustainable future.
This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the soil microbiome’s role in agriculture. It delves into the complex interactions between soil microorganisms and their impact on soil health, crop productivity, and sustainable farming practices. As agriculture faces increasing challenges from climate change and soil degradation, understanding and harnessing the soil microbiome is crucial for developing innovative, sustainable solutions.
This book fills a critical gap by integrating the latest research and practical applications. The book synthesizes current scientific literature, experimental studies, and case reports from various agricultural contexts. While comprehensive, the book may not cover every regional variation in soil microbiome dynamics.
Perfect for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students, it provides innovative approaches and actionable insights to harness the power of soil microbiomes. From enhancing productivity to promoting environmental stewardship, this essential resource equips readers with the knowledge and tools to revolutionize agriculture and foster a sustainable future.
Man-made climate change poses a new crisis: how do we feed 10 billion people in a climate hostile to food security? This book explores the threat to our “daily bread” and argues that we are not without hope, offering solutions that can lead to a better future for humankind.
Wine: our oldest medicine. Uncover its 9,500-year history, from its true origins in China to how it can reduce death rates by 50% and dementia by 80%. This groundbreaking book rewrites everything you thought you knew about the health benefits of wine.
This light-hearted, informative narrative discusses US agriculture from a historical, social, and financial perspective. Written in a satirical voice, the author uses storytelling to share his experiences in food and farming through fast-moving, easy-to-read prose.
This book explains how plants perceive their environment, communicate, and modify their behavior. It explores intriguing aspects of plant memory and intelligence, from their perception of sound and touch to communication with other plants, animals, and microorganisms.
This book introduces the biology and history of cocoa. It describes how cocoa can be grown in an environmentally sound way to increase production on existing farms, reduce incursion into forests, restore biodiversity, and improve the livelihoods of millions of farming families.
Explore the legendary fossil beds of Samos, where ancient myths explained the bones of giant mammals. This book uncovers the island’s paleontological history, compares the anatomy of the giraffe, okapi, and extinct Samotherium, and maps the geology of these famed bone quarries.
This book guides readers from basic knowledge to advanced specifics on Plant Stress Physiology due to Climate Change. Covering the newest findings on drought and heat stress, it challenges accepted viewpoints and helps address questions fundamental to plant life itself.
Discover the honey bee’s adaptation to environments worldwide. This book explains how the bee colony functions as an integral biological unit to survive long winters and uses specific acoustic and electrical signals for spatial orientation and communication.
This book presents a wine tasting method based on neurobiology, gastronomy, and the science of how the human brain processes pleasure. While written for the beginner, this unique approach offers valuable insights that wine professionals can also benefit from.
Animal space use is complex. Memory and multi-scaled space use present deep challenges for biophysical modelling. This book confronts these issues, presenting novel models, a critical evaluation of existing concepts, and theoretical proposals to resolve present challenges.
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