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A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India
A Scottish doctor and botanist, George Watt (1851–1930) had studied the flora of India for more than a decade before he took on the task of compiling this monumental work. Assisted by numerous contributors, he set about organising vast amounts of information on India's commercial plants and produce, including scientific and vernacular names, properties, domestic and medical uses, trade statis…
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- 9781107239142
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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Making Technology Masculine Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870…
Het zal weinig opzien baren wanneer technologie als 'mannelijk' wordt gekwalificeerd, maar de stelling dat deze uitspraak historisch bepaald en pas sinds kort 'waar' is, zal meer stof doen opwaaien. Making Technology Masculine brengt in kaart op welke wijze mannen beslag legden op de technologie als hun exclusieve domein en onderzoekt hoe vrouwen dit mannelijke overwicht op alternatieve wijze p…
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A Dictionary of Botanical Terms
John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) was a botanist and geologist. As teacher, mentor and friend to Charles Darwin, it was his introduction that secured for Darwin the post of naturalist on the voyage of the Beagle. While Professor of Botany, Henslow established the Cambridge University Botanic Garden as a resource for teaching and research. Students were encouraged to examine plant specimens car…
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- 9780511701542
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, bioenergy and ecological services. The chapters highlight the importance of bioeconomy-related concepts in public, scientific, and political discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors outline the dimensions of the …
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- 978-3-319-68152-8
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Applied Soil Physical Properties, Drainage, and Irrigation Strategies
The book is a realistic blend of basic knowledge and understanding in soil physical properties. It will enable the reader to scientifically analyze soils to develop practical and successful means of providing sufficient drainage and to develop science-based irrigation strategies. Only basic mathematical knowledge is necessary to understand and apply the proven principles covered. With limited r…
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- 978-3-319-24226-2
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- XX, 314
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Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-First Century
This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE 2013), which was held at Chulalongkorn University from November 28 – 30, 2013. The papers are interdisciplinary, containing insights into food security and food ethics from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limi…
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- 978-981-287-417-7
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The Tomato Genome
This book describes the strategy used for sequencing, assembling and annotating the tomato genome and presents the main characteristics of this sequence with a special focus on repeated sequences and the ancestral polyploidy events. It also includes the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a major crop plant as well as a model for fruit development, and the av…
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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterra…
This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies. The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of differ…
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- 978-3-319-16357-4
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The State as an Actor in Religion Policy Policy Cycle and Governance Perspec…
Maria Grazia Martino and her contributing authors highlight the different solutions found by European countries with different ecclesiastical law systems, different distributions of Christian denominations and different percentages of Muslim immigrants: Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Italy and Greece. Churches and religious communities are actors from civil society. The state sets the fr…
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The Sorghum Genome
This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics. It particularly focuses on the tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis, public and private genomic resources and how all this information is leading to direct outcomes for plant breeders. The advent of affordable whole genome sequencing in combination with existing cereal functional genomics data has…
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