Agricultural Sciences : Topics in Modern Agriculture

Agricultural Sciences : Topics in Modern Agriculture
Editors : Agustin Gonzalez Fontes, Agustin Garate, Iidefonso Bonilla
Year : 2010
Pages: 545 (527 + xviii)
Binding : Hard Cover
ISBN : 1933699485
Language : English
Publisher : Studium Press LLC
Price : US$ 94.95
Readership : Agricultural, Agronomy, Horticulture, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Protection,
Soil Science, Agricultural Microbiology, Plant Physiology, Ag. Biotechnology, Environmental
science, Ag. Bioinformatics
About Editors :
1. Prof. Agustin Gonzalez–Fontes : Prof. of Plant Physiology, Pablo De Olavide University,
Seville, Spain. Earlier at Heidelberg University, Germany as a fellow of the Alexander Von
Humboldt Foundation. Vast experience on bioconservation of solar energy in to biomass by
Nitrogen Fixing Cynobacteria and the nitrogen metabolism in plant. Also working on
significance of boron in vascular plants.

2. Prof. Agustin Garate : Prof. of Agricultural Chemistry, Autonoma University of Madrid
His research is on microelements in plant nutrition, particularly on the dynamics of boron,
iron, and heavy metals in the soil plant system. Worked with department of soils in the
Madison – Wisconsin University, USA
3. Prof. IIdefonso Bonilla : Prof. of Plant Physiology, Autonoma University of Madrid
His research focuses on mineral nutrition, B & Ca mainly. Biological Nitrogen Fixation and
salinity stress. Also worked with Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA), Stanford University
and University of Missouri-Columbia (USA).
About the Book
Agricultural Sciences : Topics in Modern Agriculture is an updated textbook that covers the main
aspects of modern agriculture. This book consists of 23 chapters divided into four different parts:
‘Analysis of Soils and Plants: Fertility and Agricultural Chemistry’, ‘Physiological Basis of
Sustainable Agriculture’, ‘Agricultural Production’, and ‘Agriculture and Society’. The opportunity
of this book is not only justified by scientific reasons but also because there is an increasing demand
of knowledge over these topics by social communities and individual citizens for which agricultural
achievements have become crucial operational factors in social development. According to 2008
reports, 40 % of the world’s laborers are employed in agriculture, making it by far the most common
labor occupation. The book is directed to undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students of
several specialties such as agronomy, agricultural chemistry, environmental sciences, plant
physiology, plant biochemistry, and plant molecular biology. It is also suitable for researchers and
students in plant nutrition, ecology, soil sciences, horticulture, vegetable crops, and biotechnology.
Each chapter has been elaborated by experts of recognized prestige in their respective fields who have
carried out pedagogic efforts to summarize in a clear and accurate way many issues that are not even
fully understood yet. This book not only supplies basic information but also a certain level of updated
and complex information for a better understanding of the scientific and technological goals to be
achieved in the near future. For this purpose, and to strengthen the marked pedagogic strategy of each
chapter, the publishers have done all efforts to improve the quality of the edition by adding fullcolored
figures and schemes. All chapters share a similar structure with a list of items whose titles,
contents, and distribution favors an easy and attractive reading. Each chapter includes a brief list of
recommended literature, a questionnaire and a summary of problems with their corresponding
answers that students can use to self-evaluate their level of learning. This book also aims to awaken
the reader’s interest and encourage them to self-improve their knowledge about the traditional bases
of agriculture, its latest developments, and the environmental problems that could be associated to
intensive agricultural practices. The textbook has been published by Studium Press LLC, Houston,
TX, USA, and edited by three full-professors, Agustín González-Fontes, Agustín Gárate, and
Ildefonso Bonilla, all of them with a wide expertise in university teaching and research. To produce
this textbook, the editors have organized and coordinated an interdisciplinary work team composed
by more than 40 professors and researchers in order to achieve the ultimate goal of this book:
Boosting the interest over the major problems faced by modern agriculture in its struggle to provide
food and sustainability to an increasing world population that is close to reach seven billions of
human beings.
Contents
Prologue, Contributors, Acknowledgement, Preface, 1. Soil and Soilless Culture Substrates (Juan
Jose Lucena And Alberto Masaguer), 2. Nutritional Diagnosis in Plants (Luis Romero And Juan
Manuel Ruiz) 3. Inorganic Fertilizers (Juan Jose Lucena), 4. Biofertilizers (Dulce Nombre
Rodriguez Navarro and Jose Enrique Ruiz Sainz) 5. Chelates and Complexes in Agirculture

(Agustin Garate and Juan Jose Lucena) 6. Pest and Diseases : Control Substances (Alberto Barba,
Jose Oliva and Paula Paya) 7. Introduction to Mineral Nutrition of Plants (Ildefonso Bonilla,
Javier Abadia, Luis Bolanos) 8. Photosynthesis and Biomass Productivity (Francisco J. Florencio,
Agustin Gonzalez-Fontes and Miguel G. Guerrero) 9. Assimilation of Nitrate and Sulfate (Jose
Maria Maldonado, Agustin Gonzalez – Fontes and Jesus Rexach) 10. Biological Nitrogen Fixation
(Cesar Arrese-Igor) 11. Mycorrhizas and Agriculture Fertility (Jose-Miguel Barea), 12. Bacteria
and Agriculture (Francisco Javier Gutierrez Manero, Beatriz Ramos Solano, 13. Agricultural
Production and Yield (Roxana Savin and Gustavo A. Slafer) 14. Abiotic Stresses : Salinity and
Drought (Francisco Garcia- Sanchez, Francisco Rubio and Vicente Martinez), 15. Protected
Cultivation (Nicolas Castilla, Teresa Soriano and Joaquin Hernandez), 16. Fruit Tree Crops
(Yolanda Gogorcena, Celia M. Cantin, SergioJimenez), 17.Agricultural Biotechnology (Catharina
Merchante, Fabiana Csukasi And Victoriano Valpuesta) 18. Crop Modeling (Salvador Rubio,
Carmen Lopez-Berenguer, M. Carmen Martinez-Ballesta And Micaela Carvajal), 19. Alternative
Cultures: Ornamenta Plants (Silvia Jimenez, Blanca Maria Plaza and Maria Teresa Lao),
20.Future of Crop Production in the Tropics (Federico Sanchez Y Claudia Diaz-Camino),
21.Interaction Between Agriculture and the Environment (Berta Lasa, Pedro M. aparicio-Tejo,
Carmen Lamsfus and Ignacio Irigoien), 22. Challenges and Prospects for Agriculture and Food
(Manuel Gonzalez De Molina), 23. Agricultural Bioinformatics (Antonio J. Perez-Pulido), Subject
Index
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