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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- The enormity of Zinc deficiency: an overview. Chapter 2 -- Zinc malnourishment in children and its impact on child health. Chapter 3 -- Zinc deficiency and its consequences during pregnancy. Chapter 4 -- Malnutrition: Impact of Zinc on child development. Chapter 5 -- Role of Zinc in liver pathology. Chapter 6 -- Role of micronutrients in abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Chapter 7 -- Zinc as a versatile element in plants: an overview on uptake, translocation, assimilatory roles, deficiency and toxicity symptoms. Chapter 8 -- Transition metal homeostasis and its role in plant growth. Chapter 9 -- Role of Zinc homeostasis in plant growth. Chapter 10 -- The multiple effects of microorganisms on plant nutrition. Chapter 11 -- Role of minerals in plant growth and soil microbial consortia mediated mineral uptake by plants. Chapter 12 -- Microbial bio-fertilizers an approach to deal with zinc deficiency. Chapter 13 -- Zinc solubilization by bacteria for increased Zinc uptake by plant. Chapter 14 -- Development of microbes based biofertilizer for zinc dissolution in soil. Chapter 15 -- Soil microbes interaction: mineral solubilization and plant nutrition. Chapter 16 -- Microbes Mediated facilitation of micronutrients uptake by plants from soil especially Zinc. Chapter 17 -- Role of Rhizobacterial Bacilli in Zinc solubilization. Chapter 18 -- Microbial bio-fertilizers an approach to deal with zinc deficiency. Chapter 19 -- Comparing various diets as source of zinc with special reference to fruits and vegetables. Chapter 20 -- Managing Zinc deficiency among children.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction/motivation -- 2. State of the art -- 3. Material and methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- References.

Description / Table of Contents: chapter 1: Introduction -- chapter 2: Onion -- chapter3: Garlic -- chapter 4: Leek/stone leek/welsh onion -- chapter 5: Ajowan or bishop’s weed -- chapter 6: Celery seed -- chapter 7: Coriander -- chapter 8: Cumin seed or safaid jeera -- chapter 9: Fenugreek -- chapter 10: Mustard -- chpater11; Cassia and cumin -- chapter 12. Cinnamon or true cinnamon -- chapter 13: Clove -- chapter 14: Mace or nutmeg -- chapter 15: Allspice or pimenta or pimento -- chapter 16: Curry leaf -- chapter 17: Tamarind -- chapter 18: Asafoetida or asafetida -- chapter 19: Vanilla.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tilapia Fish For Future Sustainable Aquaculture -- Chapter 2: Health Management For Sustainable Tilapia Farming -- Chapter 3: Effects Of Feed Additives On Tilapia Reproduction -- Chapter 4: Intestinal Microbiota Of Tilapia: Characterization And Modulation -- Chapter 5: Probiotics And Their Application In Tilapia Culture -- Chapter 6: Prebiotics And Synbiotics In Nile Tilapia Culture -- Chapter 7: Medicinal Plants In Tilapia Aquaculture -- Chapter 8: Alternative Protein Sources For Sustainable Tilapia Farming -- Chapter 9: Sustainable Tilapia Farming, The Role Of Culture Systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introductory Chapters and Historical Abstract -- Feed Additives to Ensure Sustainability -- Feed Additives, Their Role and Technological Properties -- Food Additives as Functional Ingredients in Food Products -- History of Feed Additives -- Part II. Sources and Types of Feed Additives -- Enzymes as Feed Additives -- Medicinal and Aromatic Plants as a Source of Potential Feed and Food Additives -- The Role of Insects in Novel Sustainable Animal Production Systems -- Probiotics, Prebiotics, Paraprobiotics, Postbiotics -- Novel Plant Extracts as Food Additives -- The Use of Feed and Food Additives in USA -- Part III: Biochemistry and General Effects -- The Effects of Feed Additives on Farm Animals under Heat Stress Conditions -- Feed Additives as Antiviral Agents -- Food and Feed Additives to Counteract Mycotoxin Toxicity in Human and Animals -- Part IV. Specific Applications in Livestock by Animal Groups -- Plant-Based Feed Additives for Livestock and Poultry in Southern Africa -- Plant-Based Feed Additives for Livestock and Poultry in Southern Africa -- Feed Additives to Combat Intestinal Diseases in Antibiotic Free Poultry Farming -- The Effects of Feed Additives on the Immune System of Poultry -- Application of Aromatic Plants and Their Extracts in Livestock -- Improving the Sustainability of Laying Hen Production Using Plant-Based Feed Additives -- Application of Feed Additives in the Diets of Turkeys -- Effect of Phytochemical Feed Additives on Health Status, Milk Yield and Quality Characteristics in Ruminants -- Feed Additives as Dietary Tools to Improve Welfare Status in Ruminants -- Application of Feed Additives to Improve Pork Meat Quality -- Feed additives, as Dietary Tools to Support Gut Health of Pigs -- Feed Additives as Immune Boosting Factors in Swine Health -- Probiotics as Feed Additives in Monogastric Animals -- Feed Additives for Insect Production -- Feed Additives in Aquaculture -- Certain Major Diseases Having Nutritional Disorders in Their Etiology and Economic Importance in Horses -- Feed Additives in Rabbit Nutrition to Ensure Sustainability -- Part V: Analytical Methods, Future Outlook and Perspectives -- Modern Applications in the Determination of Food and Feed Additives -- Antimicrobials as Feed and Food Additives, Their Technological Properties and Perspectives -- Feed Additives and Future Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Economic Importance, Practical Limitations to Production, Management and Breeding Targets of Alfalfa -- Chapter 2. Factors Influencing Yield and Quality -- Chapter 3. The Origin, Evolution and Genetic Diversity of Alfalfa -- Chapter 4. Germplasm Collection, Genetic Resources and Gene Pools in Alfalfa -- Chapter 5. Biotechnology Advances in Alfalfa -- Chapter 6. Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation of the Alfalfa Genome -- Chapter 7. Transcription Factors in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.): Genome-Wide Identification and a Web Resource Center AlfalfaTFDB -- Chapter 8. Genomics of Forage Quality in Alfalfa -- Chapter 9. Physiological, Morphological, Biochemical, and Genetic Responses of Alfalfa to Salinity -- Chapter 10. Developing SNPs and Strategies for Genomic Analysis in Alfalfa -- Chapter 11. Genomics Resources for Breeding in Alfalfa: Availability, Utility, and Adoption -- Chapter 12. Genomic Selection for Higher Yield and Quality in Alfalfa -- Chapter 13. Identification and Characterization of Disease Resistance Genes in Alfalfa and Medicago truncatula for Breeding Improved Cultivars -- Chapter 14. Genetic and Genomic Assessments for Improving Drought Resilience in Alfalfa -- Chapter 15. Self-Incompatibility, Inbreeding Depression, and Potential to Develop Inbred Lines in Alfalfa -- Chapter 16. Targeted Mutagenesis of Alfalfa.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. What is the problem? Pesticides in our everyday life -- 2. Pesticide impacts on the environment, and humans -- 3. Where are the solutions to the pesticide problem?

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Microclimate management: From traditional agriculture to livestock systems in tropical environments -- 2. Climate-smart and agro-ecological farming systems of smallholder farmers -- 3. The telecoupling approach to the Global Food System and Climate Change Regime: the pivotal role of Brazil and China -- 4. Genetic Resources -- 5. PLANT ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS: DROUGHT, CHILLING, HEAT, AND SALINITY -- 6. Innovations in Plant Variety Testing with Entomological and Statistical Interventions -- 7. Global Resource Flows in the Food System -- 8. Vertical Farming: An AI-based Micro-System with Economic Data -- 9. Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Technology in Soil Quality and Land Management Research -- 10. High-Quality Fertilizers from Biogas Digestate -- 11. Citizen-driven food system approaches in cities -- 12. ICT-enabled agri-food systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to chemigation and fertigation -- Chapter 2. Selecting an injector for fertilizer/chemical injection -- Chapter 3. Fertilizers for fertigation -- Chapter 4. Major, secondary, and micronutrient fertilizers used in fertigation -- Chapter 5. Fertigation practices: Egyptian case study.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Climate Resilience for Food Security: Current Dynamics and Emerging Trends -- 2. Rethinking the Agricultural Development Model in the Post COVID-19 Era Based on Scientific Knowledge: The Moroccan Case -- 3. Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Labor Force and Food Security in Pakistan: The Importance of Climate-Smart Agriculture -- 4. Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production and Security in Sri Lanka – The Importance of Climate-Smart Agriculture -- 5. Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Agriculture Industry in Sri Lanka and the Application of Smart Technologies to Overcome Challenges and Grasp New Opportunities -- 6. Enhancing Food Security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a Changing Climate: The New Roles of Extension Service -- 7. Role of Agriculture Extension in Ensuring Food Security Under a Changing Climate in Pakistan: State of the Art and Prospects for Reforms -- 8. Role of Agricultural Extension Services in Building Climate Resilience of Food Security in Ethiopia -- 9. Dynamics of Agricultural Extension for Nigeria’s Rural Areas Under the Current Scenario of Climate Change -- 10. Climate Change, Food Security and Agricultural Extension Nexus in Islamic Republic of Iran -- 11. Realizing Food Security through the Role of Agricultural Development in Sudan -- 12. Agriculture in Fragile Moroccan Ecosystems in the Face of Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation -- 13. Natural and Regulatory Underlying Factors of Food Dependency in Algeria -- 14. Boosting Youth Participation in Farming Activities within the Perspective of Enhancing National Food Self-Sufficiency - A Case Study from Nigeria -- 15. Farmers’ Satisfaction towards Organic Rice Farming Promotion in Northeastern Thailand: Some Factors Affecting their Farm Fulfillment.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Evidences from climate change dynamics -- Chapter 3-Sustaining livelihoods for survival -- Chapter 4-Cultural influence for revitalizing health traditions and vulnerable environments -- Chapter 5-Holistic health for well-being -- Chapter 6-Summary and policy options. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Arecanut: (Areca catechu L.) -- Chapter 2. Cashewnut (Anacardium occidentale L.) -- Chapter 3. The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) -- Chapter 4. Cinchona (Cinchona sp.) -- Chapter 5. Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) -- Chapter 6. Coffee (Coffea arabica and Coffea robusta) -- Chapter 7. Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacquin) -- Chapter 8. Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) -- Chapter 9. Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) -- Chapter 10. Wattle (Acacia sp.) -- Final Remarks .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Pepper Plant—Its Botany and Chemistry -- Chapter 3 Pepper Agronomy -- Chapter 4 The Role of the Nutrient Buffer Power Concept in Pepper Nutrition -- Chapter 5 Establishing a Pepper Plantation -- Chapter 6 Pepper Pests and Their Control -- Chapter 7 The Processing of Black Pepper on Farm -- Chapter 8 An Account of Indonesian Pepper Processing -- Chapter 9 Industrial Processing of Black Pepper -- Chapter 10 The Future of the Global Pepper Economy -- Chapter 11 Pepper Economy in India -- Chapter 12 Pepper Pharmacopoeia -- Chapter 13 Consumer Products Out of Black Pepper -- Chapter 14 Value Addition in Pepper -- Chapter 15 Conclusions and a Peep Into Pepper’s Future -- PRECISE QUANTIFICATION OF PLANT NUTRIENT BIO AVAILABILITY FOR BLACK PEPPER AND CARDAMOM -- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN SPICES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT!!!.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Death Valley of Impacts Why in Agriculture, how to Cross it with Scaling-up Strategy to Achieve Impacts?- Chapter 2. Agro-ecologies- Soils and Water Regimes and Impacts of Climate Change as Challenges for Impacts of Scaling-up. -- Chapter 3. Empowerment of Stakeholders an Essential Component for Effective and Efficient Service Delivery in Rural Areas. Tapas Bhattacharya and Suhas P. Wani -- Chapter 4. Seeing is Believing- Participatory Integrated Demonstrations of Improved Technologies for Scaling-up through Building Partnerships for Impacts -- Chapter 5. Journey of Neglected Underutilised Crops to Future Smart Crops for Achieving Zero Hunger Challenge -- Chapter 6. Pulses Production Revolution in India Through Rice-Fallows Management -- Chapter 7. Sustainable Intensification of Food systems through lentil and Grass Peas in Asia -- Chapter 8. Environment -friendly Direct Seeding Rice Technology to Foster Sustainable Rice Production -- Chapter 9. Sustainable Intensification of Potato Production in Asia through Scaling-up -- Chapter 10. Scaling-up Technology Adoption for Enhancing Water Use Efficiency in India -- Chapter 11. Scaling-up of Conservation Agriculture for Climate Resilient Agriculture in Indo Gangetic Plains -- Chapter 12. Enabling Institutions, Policies, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Mechanism: A Must for Scaling-up for Impact -- Chapter 13. Success Stories from Scaling-up Initiatives with State Governments and Corporates in India, China and Thailand -- Chapter 14. Lessons Learnt and Way Forward to Benefit Millions of Farmers.

Description / Table of Contents: Geospatial Technology for Geomorphology Mapping and its Applications -- Geospatial technology for estimation of geomorphological characteristics of an ungauged watershed -- Long Term Analysis of River Migration Pattern using Geospatial Techniques – A case study of upper part of the Ganga River, India -- Space borne Scatterometers for understanding the large-scale land hydrological processes -- Wetland Classification and Monitoring Using Time Series Earth Observation Data and Machine Learning Algorithm: A Case Study in Upper Ganga River Stretch.

Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Silvopastoral Systems: Basic Design and Management Considerations -- Silvopastoral Systems and their role in climate change mitigation and Nationally Determined Contributions in Latin America -- Silvopastoral Systems: A Pathway To Scale-Up Restoration In Colombia -- Could Biomass Revolution Be Achieved with Silvopastoral Systems? -- Effect of silvopastoral systems on biodiversity and the provision of environmental services in tropical agro-landscapes -- Silvopastoral systems as an alternative of dairy cattle production in tropical pastures -- Silvopastoral Systems in Paraguay -- Development of silvopastoral systems in the Peruvian Amazon -- Silvopastoral systems in Colombia: From pilot farms to NDCs -- Agro-silvopastoral systems for the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia -- Agroecological Transition for Sustainable Cattle Ranching with Silvopastoral Systems in the High Andean Slopes of Colombia -- Silvopastoral systems with native tree species in Venezuela -- Silvopasture in Panama: An overview of research and practice -- Increasing biodiversity in livestock production systems: Plant traits and natural regeneration capacity of woody vegetation in actively managed grasslands -- Sexual Reproduction in Tithonia diversifolia and the Implications for Its Use in Intensive Silvopastoral Systems -- Silvopastoral Systems with Leucaena leucocephala and Tithonia diversifolia in Cuba.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 01: The Role of Gas Transmitters in Plant Hormonal Responses to Abiotic Stress -- Chapter 02: Understanding the involvement of gasotransmitters in the regulation of cellular signalling and adaptive responses against UV-B mediated oxidative stress in plants -- Chapter 03 Signaling Pathways of Gasotransmitters in Heavy Metal Stress Mitigation -- Chapter 04: Volatile signaling molecules in plants and their interplay with the redox balance under challenging environments: new insights -- Chapter 05: Alleviation of Plant Stress by Molecular Hydrogen -- Chapter 06: Understanding the role of nitric oxide and its interactive effects with phytohormones in mitigation of salinity stress -- Chapter 07 Nitric oxide – a small molecule with big impacts on plants under heavy metal stress -- Chapter 08: Nitric oxide: a key modulator of postharvest fruit and egetable physiology -- Chapter 09: Interaction of hydrogen sulfide with other phytohormones during physiological and stress conditions -- Chapter 10: Gasotransmitter hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and its role in plant development and defense responses -- Chapter 11 Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) signaling in plants responding to abiotic stresses -- Chapter 12 Hydrogen sulfide metabolism and its role in regulating salt and drought stress in plants -- Chapter 13 Functional Roles of Hydrogen Sulphide in Postharvest Physiology of Fruit and Vegetables -- Chapter 14: Carbon compounds as gasotransmitters in plants under challenging environment -- Chapter 15: Carbon monoxide (CO) and its association with other gasotransmitters in root development, growth and signaling.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background -- chapter 1: A good life for cattle: Concepts and Progress -- Chapter 2: Using behaviour to understand and assess welfare in cattle -- Chapter 3: Assessingcattle welfare: physiology and immunology -- Part 2: Challenges in different systems -- Chapter 4: Housing of Dairy Cattle: Enhancing Movement Opportunity in Housing Systems -- Chapter 5: Welfare of dairy cows in pasture-based systems -- Chapter 6: Welfare of beef cattle in extensive systems -- Chapter 7: Welfare of beef cattle in intensive systems -- Part 3: Consideration of key aspects of cattle welfare -- Chapter 8: The Welfare of Cattle at Slaughter -- Chapter 9: The human-animal relationship and cattle welfare -- Chapter 10: Welfare at calving and of the growing animals -- Chapter 11: Precision Livestock Farming Technologies for Dairy and Beef Production -- Chapter 12: Strategies and tools for genetic selection in dairy cattle and their application to improving animal welfare -- Part 4: Case studies -- Chapter 13: The sustainability of cattle production systems -- Chapter 14: The sheltering of unwanted cows in India -- Chapter 15: Cattle Welfare in Smallholder Dairy and Pastoralist Beef systems in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 16: Welfare and health challenges of 'new entry' dairying: A Practitioner’s Perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. The FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme -- 2. Potential GIAHS sites in Africa -- 2.1. The jessour system, Tunisia; Afef Zanzana -- 2.2. The Mountain Oases, Tunisia; Fadwa Benyahia -- 2.3 The Ketaba agroecology system, Senegal; Alioune Badara Fall -- 2.4 The cultural landscape of Konso, Ethiopia; Yenewa Dessie Alemu, Fethia Abdullahi Ahmed -- 2.5. The Marakwet traditional irrigation system, Kenya; Sheilla Jeruto Tallam -- 2.6. The agroforestry system in Sao Tome and Principe; Joana Rocha Dias -- 3. Potential GIAHS sites in Asia -- 3.1. The floating garden system of the Inle Lake, Myanmar; Moe Thae Oo, Zin Wai Aung -- 3.2. The traditional Naga agricultural system, Myanamr; Ti Chia -- 3.3. The lychee cultivation system in Haikou City, China; Xieli Bai -- 3.4. The ancient terraced agricultural system in Shouf, Lebanon; Marwa Abou Assi -- 3.5. Cultivation of Mohammadi flower and rosewater production system in Barzok, Iran; Mohammad Amin Emadi -- 4. Potential GIAHS sites in Europe -- 4.1. The rainfed mulching agriculture in the volcanic island of Lanzarote, Spain; Marta Arnés -- 4.2. The traditional alpine agriculture in Valtellina and Valposchiavo, Italy-Switzerland; Michelangelo Ferri -- 4.3. The terraced vineyards of Lamole in Chianti, Italy; Francesco Piras -- 4.4. The traditional agricultural system of the hills of Vertop, Albania; Florjan Boduri -- 5. Potential GIAHS sites in Central and South America -- 5.1. The traditional agricultural system in the Sierra del Rosario, Cuba; Alejandro Gonzalez -- 5.2. The sustainable agricultural system of the Sierra Maestra, Cuba; Yenia Molina Pelegrín -- 5.3. The traditional agricultural system of tobacco in Viñales, Cuba; Liane Bárbara Portuondo Farías -- 5.4. The Sabana de Morro agroforestry system in Dolores, El Salvador; Ever Alexis Martínez Aguilar -- 5.5. The “Chakra” agroforestry system of the Kichwa communities, Ecuador; Erika Zárate -- 5.6. The “Chagras” agroforestry system in the Amazon, Colombia; María Alejandra Hernández Marentes -- 5.7. The vertical productive system in the Charazani Valley, Bolivia; Fabiana Navia -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to MAPs in Turkey -- Ethnobotany in Turkey: Retrospect and Prospect -- Natural Dye Plants in Turkey -- Phytochemical and Biological Characteristics of Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) Species from Turkey.-The genus Salvia in Turkey: Morphology, Ecology, Phytogeograpy, Endemism and Threat Categories -- Threatened Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and Conservation Studies in Turkey -- Cultivation and Breeding of MAPs in Turkey -- Traditional Uses and Cultivation of St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) in Türkiye -- Turkish Oregano (Origanum spp.) – Biodiversity, Cultivation, Traditional & Commercial Uses -- Traditional Medicinal and Aromatic Trees in Turkiye: Laurel (Laurus nobilis), Sumac (Rhuscoriaria), Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) and Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) -- Turkish Soaproot (Radix gypsophylae) -- Traditional Farming of Apiaceae Species in Turkiye: Pimpinella anisum L., Foeniculum vulgare Mill., Cuminum cyminum L.) -- Traditional Uses of Turkish Asteraceae Species -- Anti-aging effect of Turkish medicinal plants on skin: Focus on recent studies.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India: A bridge from Traditions to modern wellbeing -- 2. Holy basil (Ocimum sanctum L.) - an important indian medicinal and aromatic plant: its properties, utilization and genetic improvement -- 3. Ethnomedicinal Importance of Common Weeds of the Family Asteraceae in the Tribal Belt of Rajasthan, India -- 4. Cydonia oblonga Mill. - Wound healing properties -- 5. Artemisia annua L. - A comprehensive review on pharmacological properties -- 6. Mesua ferrea L - Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology -- 7. Linum usitatissimum L. - Rich store house of pharmacologically active metabolites -- 8. Gymnema sylvestre R.Br.: - Phytochemicals and Medicinal Properties -- 9. Medicinal and Aromatic plants of India used in the treatment of skin disorders -- 10. Traditional uses and properties of Indian medicinal plants in the treatment of Vitiligo -- 11. Indian MAPs with hepato-protectant potentials -- 12. Selected Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Mucormycosis, in India -- 13. Selected Indian Medicinal And Aromatic Plants For Prophylactic Therapy -- 14. Conservation Strategies Of Indian Medicinal Plants.

Description / Table of Contents: Ch.1 Agriculture and climate change -- Ch.2 Energy and Climate change -- Ch.3 Agriculture in Energy -- Ch.4 Energy in Agriculture -- Ch.5 Water Energy Food and climate change nexus -- Ch.6 Supplying Energy in More Sustainable way -- Ch.7 Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: First edition: I. Overview of Direct-Fed Microbials and Prebiotics and Their Interactions with the Host -- 1. The Commensal Microbiota -- 2. Prebiotics of Plant and Microbial Origin -- 3. Microbial Species Characteristics and Selection -- 4. Genomics of Probiotic-Host Interactions -- 5. The Effects of Pre- and Probiotics on the Host Immune Response -- II. Current and Future Status of Practical Applications and Challenges -- 6. Current Status of Practical Applications: Pets -- 7. Current Perspectives on Probiotics in Poultry Preharvest Food Safety -- 8. Current Status of Practical Applications: Probiotics in Dairy Cattle -- 9. Current Future Status of Practical Applications: Beef Cattle -- 10. Future Challenges of Administration of Direct-Fed Microbial Supplementation to Swine -- 11. Characteristics and Modification of the Intestinal Tract Microbiota of Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus -- 12. The Use of Direct-Fed Microbials as a Pre-Harvest Food Safety Intervention in Cattle. Second edition with proposed changes in attachment.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tissue Culture of Medicinal Plants -- Chapter 2: Mentha -- Chapter 3: Amla -- Chapter 4: Belladonna --  Chapter 5: Babchi -- Chapter 6: Ashwagandha -- Chapter 7: Cowhage -- Chapter 8: Costus -- Chapter 9: Coleus -- Chapter 10: Cinchona -- Chapter 11: Patchouli -- Chapter 12: Black pepper -- Chapter 13: Wild Marigold -- Chapter 14: Vanilla -- Chapter 15: Tuberose -- Chapter 16: Thyme -- Chapter 17: Onion -- Chapter 18: Garlic -- Chapter 19: Fennel -- Chapter 20: Henbane -- Chapter 21: Holy Thistle -- Chapter 22: Guggul -- Chapter 23: Glory Lily -- Chapter 24: Aniseed -- Chapter 25: Sacred Basil --  Chapter 26: Khus -- Chapter 27: Isabgol -- Chapter 28: Kalonji -- Chapter 29: Licorice -- Chapter 30: Brahmi -- Chapter 31: Buckwheat -- Chapter 32: Tianma -- Chapter 33: Chili pepper -- Chapter 34: Kewda -- Chapter 35: Jasmine -- Chapter 36: Opium poppy -- Chapter 37: Lavender -- Chapter 38: Tulsi -- Chapter 39: Chamomile -- Chapter 40: Bhumyamalaki -- Chapter 41: Moringa -- Chapter 42: Saffron -- Chapter 43: Barbados -- Chapter 44:Tea -- Chapter 45: Celery -- Chapter 46: Dioscorea.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I Introduction -- Part II Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production -- Part III Case Studies: Improve Crop Adaptability and Stability to Climate Change -- Part IV Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Broomcorn Millet Genome -- Chapter 2. Buckwheat Genome and Genomics -- Chapter 3. Tef [Eragrostistis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] -- Chapter 4. The Apricot Genome -- Chapter 5. Chinese Jujube: Crop Background and Genome Sequencing -- Chapter 6. The Longan (Dimocarpus longan) Genome -- Chapter 7. The Mangosteen Genome -- Chapter 8. The Passion Fruit Genome -- Chapter 9. The Soursop Genome (Annona muricata L., Annonaceae) -- Chapter 10. Underutilised Fruit Tree Genomes from Indonesia -- Chapter 11. The Bambara Groundnut Genome: From the Crop to the Genome -- Chapter 12. Grasspea -- Chapter 13. The Lablab Genome -- Chapter 14. The Perennial Horse Gram (Macrotyloma axillare) Genome, Phylogeny, and Selection Across the Fabaceae -- Chapter 15. Breeding and Genomics of Pigeonpea in the Post-NGS Era -- Chapter 16. Rice Bean -- Chapter 17. The Winged Bean Genome: One Species Supermarket -- Chapter 18. Castor Bean: Recent Progress in Understanding the Genome of this Underutilized Crop -- Chapter 19. Genome Resources for Ensete Ventricosum (enset) and Related Species -- Chapter 20. Yam Genomics -- Chapter 21. The African Eggplant -- Chapter 22. Sequencing of the Bottle Gourd Genomes Enhances Understanding of the Ancient Orphan Crop -- Chapter 23. Advances and Prospects in Genomic and Functional Studies of the Aquatic Crop, Sacred Lotus -- Chapter 24. Utilising Public Resources for Fundamental Work in Underutilised and Orphan Crops.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Taxonomy and Evolution of the tribe Triticeae Dumort -- 3. Genome structure of Triticeae species -- 4. B Chromosomes -- 5. Orphan genera of the subtribe Triticineae Simmonds -- 6. Secale L -- 7. Classification of the wheat group (the genera Amblyopyrum, Aegilops, and Triticum) -- 8. Amblyopyrum (Jaub. &Spach) Eig -- 9. Aegilops L -- 10. Triticum L. -- 11. Evolution of the diploid species of the sub-tribe Triticineae -- 12. Evolution of the allopolyploid species -- 13. Evolution of wheat under cultivation -- 14. Future prospects -- 15. References. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction-Classification of Fruits and Significance of Horticulture in J&K -- Apple (Pyrus Malus) -- Pear (Pyrus communis) -- Quince (Cydonia oblonga) -- Cherry (Prunus cerasus) -- Fig (Ficus carica) -- Apricot (Prunus armeniaca) -- Grapes (Vitis vinifera) -- Olive (Olea europaea L) -- Pomegranate (Punica granatum) -- Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) -- Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana) -- Plum (Prunus domestica) -- Litchi (Litchi chinensis) -- Anola (Emblica officinalis) -- Peach (Prunus persica) -- Strawberry (F. ananassa) -- Citrus fruits -- Mango (Mangifera indica) -- Guava (Psidium guajava) -- Walnut (Juglans regia) -- Almond (Prunus dulcis) -- Pecan (Carya illinoenis) -- Mulberry (M. rubra) -- Seabuckthorn (Hippophae Tibetana) -- Socio-economic aspects of horticultural crops grown under highland Himalayan regions. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Organic Management of Nematodes: Paradigms and Mechanisms -- 1. Biochemical Biopesticides for Phytonematode Sustainable Management: Status and Future Prospects (Thales Lima Rocha; Vera Lucia Perussi Polez; Lívia Cristina de Souza Viol; Reinaldo Rodrigues Pimentel, Danielle Biscaia; Jadir Borges Pinheiro) -- 2. Organic Nematicides: A Green Technique and its Overview for the Nematode Disease Management (Faryad Khan, Mohammad Shariq, Mohd Asif, Taruba Ansari, Saba Fatima, Arshad Khan, Mohd Ikram, Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui) -- 3. Nematode Management Through Compost (Fisayo Yemisi Daramola, Samuel B. Orisajo and Omorefosa Osarenkhoe Osemwegie) -- 4. Biochemical/Molecular Mechanisms Associated with Nematode Management Through Organic Amendments: A critical Review (John Fosu-Nyarko, Rhys G. R. Copeland, Sadia Iqbal, Michael G. K. Jones) -- 5. Organic By-Products in the Suppression of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes (Alixelhe Pacheco Damascena, Marylia Gabriella Silva Costa, Júlio César Antunes Ferreira, Silvia Renata Siciliano Wilcken) -- 6. Nematode Management by Humic Acid (Seenivasan Nagachandrabosea, Sankaranarayanan Chellappab, and Devrajan Kandasamya) -- 7. Conventional and Organic Management as Divergent Drivers for Plant Parasitic Nematodes (PPNs) control (Kanika Khanna, Vandana Gautam, Dhriti Kapoor, Nandni Sharma, Pooja Sharma, Tamanna Bhardwaj, Puja Ohri, Renu Bhardwaj) -- Part 2. Organic Management of Nematodes: Global Case studies and Success Stories -- 8. Plant Extracts and Their Effect on Plant-parasitic nematodes: Case Studies from Africa (Ebrahim Shokoohi) -- 9. Organic Management of the Citrus, Pine and Related Nematodes (Reza Ghaderi, Manouchehr Hosseinvand) -- 10. Organic Management of Rice Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne graminicola (Ziaul Haque and Mujeebur Rahman Khan) -- 11. Strategies for the Organic Management of the Root-Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) in Grapevine Under Desert Conditions in the North Coast of Peru (César Augusto Murguía Reyes) -- 12. Organic Fumigant Alternatives for Nematode Management in High-Value Crops in Florida (Johan Desaeger, Kaydene Williams, and Erin Rosskopf) -- 13. The False Root-Knot Nematode Nacobbus aberrans and its Ecological Management (Edgar Villar-Luna, Olga Gómez-Rodríguez, Hernán Villar-Luna, Liliana Aguilar-Marcelino, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq Al-Ani, and Ernesto Fernández-Herrera) -- 14. Plant Extracts, Sorghum and Crucifers Amendments and Pochonia chlamydosporia for the Management of Meloidodyne spp. and Nacobbus aberrans in Tomato and Chile Crops: the Mexican Experience (Ignacio Cid del Prado-Vera, Marco Antonio Magallanes-Tapia, Raúl Velasco-Azorsa, Arely Pérez-Espíndola) -- 15. Non-Conventional Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Musaceas Crops (Donald Riascos–Ortiz, Ana Teresa Mosquera–Espinosa, Francia Varón De Agudelo, Claudio Marcelo Gonçalves De Oliveira, Jaime Eduardo Muñoz–Florez) -- 16. Neem Cake Amendment Changes Soil Nematode Spatio-temporal Dynamics Across a Guava Orchard in the Brazilian Semiarid Region (Diego Arruda Huggins de Sá Leitão, Ana Karina dos Santos Oliveira, Douglas Barbosa Castro, Elvira Maria Régis Pedrosa).

Description / Table of Contents: Plant Genetic Resources: Conservation, Evaluation and Utilization in Plant Breeding -- Applicability of ISAP and RAPD Techniques for Capsicum Collections Genotyping -- SINE-Markers as a Powerful Tool for Assessing Genetic Diversity to Improve Potato -- Improved breeding of high carotene carrots through marker-assisted paternity selection and Raman spectroscopy -- Traditional and modern molecular cytogenetic approaches to study of mutagen-induced DNA damage - a case of Fagopyrum species -- Improvement of Yield in Cowpea Varieties using Different Breeding Approaches -- Germplasm Diversity and Breeding Approaches for Genetic Improvement of Mungbean -- Mutation Breeding for Adaptation to Climate Change in Seed Propagated Crops -- Induced Mutagenesis-A Reliable Technology to Overcome the Limitations of Low Genetic Variability in Lentils -- Abiotic stress tolerance and nutritional improvement in chickpeas through recombination, mutation, and molecular breeding -- Application of Molecular Markers for Assessing Genetic Diversity in Faba Bean -- Conventional and Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Maize (Zea mays L.) -- Conventional and Molecular Breeding for Sunflower Nutrition Quality Improvement -- Mendelian to Genomics and Bioinformatics Approaches in cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in Sorghum breeding -- Induced Mutations for Developing New Ornamental Varieties -- In vitro embryo rescue techniques and applications in hybrid plant development -- Proteomic and Biochemical Research for Exploring the Role of Plant-Derived Smoke in Food Crops -- Genome-wide association study (GWAS): concept and methodology for gene mapping in plants -- Tweaking CRISPR/Cas for developing salt and drought tolerant crop plants -- CRISPR/Cas in improvement of food crops for feeding the world into the future.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Patterns of insect evolution -- Chapter. 2. Overview of insect midgut function -- Chapter. 3. Types and chemistry of diets -- Chapter. 4. Ordinary digestive enzymes -- Chapter. 5. Midgut cells, microvillar membranes and secretory mechanisms -- Chapter. 6. Midgut pH buffering, nutrient absorption, fluid fluxes, and enzyme recycling -- Chapter. 7. Midgut extracellular layers and their function -- Chapter. 8. Endocrine regulation of insect digestion -- Chapter. 9. Recruitment of lysosomal cysteine and aspartic endopeptidases as digestive enzymes -- Chapter. 10. Plant, bacterial, and fungal cell wall degrading enzymes -- Chapter. 11. Mechanisms of avoiding the action of plant inhibitors on digestion -- Chapter. 12. Role of microorganisms in digestion and nutrition -- Chapter. 13. Molecular view of digestion and absorption in the major insect orders -- Chapter. 14. General trends in the evolution of digestive systems -- Chapter. 15. New technologies of insect control that act through the gut.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Feeding of the pregnant and lactating mare -- Chapter 2: Growth and development of the horse -- Chapter 3: Management and nutrition after weaning -- Chapter 4: Feeding growing race horses in work -- Chapter 5: Feeding practices of mares and young horses -- Chapter 6: Health risks of growing horses related to exercise and parasite control. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Soil Physics and Plant Growth -- Chapter. 2. Soil Water and Plant Growth -- Chapter. 3. Irrigation Management -- Chapter. 4. Drainage -- Chapter. 5. Soil Structure and Plant Growth -- Chapter. 6. Soil Air and Plant Growth -- Chapter. 7. Soil Temperature and Plant Growth -- Chapter. 8. Soil Strength and Plant Growth -- Chapter. 9. Management of Soil Physical Environment in Relation to Plant Growth.

Description / Table of Contents: Understanding Hydrology of Indian Himalayan landscapes- A Review -- Development of a semi-distributed rainfall-runoff model for water budgeting in macropore dominated hilly river basins -- Hydrological Simulation Using Coupled ANN-SCS Approach in Pagladiya Watershed: A Sub-catchment of Brahmaputra River Basin -- Water erosion risks mapping using RUSLE model in the Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi Dam watershed (Central Coastal Rif, Morocco).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Climate change: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Climate change, agricultural productivity, and food security -- Chapter 3. Climate change and Process Based Soil Modeling -- Chapter 4. Soil microbes and climate smart agriculture -- Chapter 5. Climate Change Impacts on Legumes Crop Production and Adaptation Strategies -- Chapter 6. Cereal crop modeling for food and nutrition security -- Chapter 7. Changing climate scenario: Perspectives of Camelina sativa as low input biofuel and oilseed crop -- Chapter 8. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation Strategies in Rice Production Systems -- Chapter 9. Fiber Crops in Changing Climate -- Chapter 10. Estimation of Crop Genetic Coefficients to Simulate Growth and Yield under Changing Climate -- Chapter 11. Climate Change Impacts on Animal Production -- Chapter 12. Climate change and global insect dynamics -- Chapter 13. Sustainable Solutions to Food Insecurity in Nigeria: Perspectives on Irrigation, Crop-Water Productivity, and antecedents -- Chapter 14. Functions of Soil Microbes Under Stress Environment -- Chapter 15. Modeling impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies for cereal crops in Ethiopia -- Chapter 16. Strategies for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Environmental and Economic Benefits of Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative and Production Constraints in Pakistan: A Review -- Chapter 18. Modeling Photoperiod Response of Canola under Changing Climate -- Chapter 19. Modeling and Field Based Evaluation of Vernalisation Requirement of Canola for Higher Yield Potential -- Chapter 20. Integrated crop-livestock system: Prospectus for climate change adaptation in Jordan, a case study -- Chapter 21. Impact of Salinity Intrusion Problem in the sediments of paddy field and farmers adaptation initiative: Case Study.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Historical implementation of the Hula Drainage and followed "Hula Project" -- Chapter 2. Regional Geographical and geological system structure -- Chapter 3. Meteorology: Climate change: air temperature, precipitation, dryness and desertification trends -- Chapter 4. Hydrology: Hydrological System structure: Head waters. Valley Canals (efore and after "Hula Project, agricultural development, Agmon-Hula, River Discharge, Runoff, Subterranean flows, Ground water Table, the impact of seasonal and multi-annual fluctuations of climate change on Hula Valley water balance -- Chapter 5. Nutrients: Water quality in River discharges, Hula Valley canals, and underground flows; the impact of Hula Valley on Nutrient inputs into Lake Knneret through Jordan River, Seasonal and long term fluctuations, the impact of climate change on nutrients dynamic -- Chapter 6. Agricultural management in the Hula valley: Crops diversity, irrigation policy, prevention of soil deterioration and linkage with touristic function maintenance -- Chapter 7. The Peat- Soil Convention: Conceptual and practical implementation: prevention of soil deterioration by moisture level control -- Chapter 8. The Agmon-Hula system: The impact of Agmon-Hula system on Nutrients removal from the Kinneret loads, Agmon water and nutrient balances, plants and birds distribution -- Chapter 9. Eco-tourism and ecological management of the the Hula Project: The Crane Case: Tourism-agricultural linkage -- Chapter 10. Conclusions and future perspectives of management.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Linkage between Primary and Secondary Agriculture: Role of High Value Field Crops in Increasing Farmers Income -- 2.Agro-techniques and Management of Aromatic Rice for Higher Income and Livelihood Security -- 3. New Innovations in Agriculture: A way Forward for Enhancing Agricultural Production and Productivity -- 4. Integrated Farming Systems for Doubling Farmers’ Income -- 5. Integrated Farming Systems: Research, Extension and Scope in Punjab, India -- 6. Speciality Food Crops – An Alternate way for Increasing Farm Income -- 7. Prospects of Crop Residues in Secondary Agriculture -- 8. Marketing of Agricultural Produce - Problems and Prospects -- 9. Downsizing Risks While Increasing Productivity – A Must in Climate Change Scenario -- 10. Accelerated Composting of Organic Solid Waste Under Temperate Conditions -- 11. Sustainable Innovations to Improve Agricultural Productivity and Profitability -- 12. Post-Harvest Management and Value Addition of Food Crops -- 13. Role of Botanicals in Integrated Pest Management for Sustained Crop Production -- 14. Conservation Agriculture-Based Sustainable Intensification to Achieve Food, Water and Energy Security While Reducing Farmers’ Environmental Footprint in the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Origin of watermelon -- Whole genome sequencing of watermelon and other relevant genomic resources -- Watermelon Genetic Resources and Diversity -- Watermelon genomic resources for disease resistance -- - The NLR family of disease resistance genes in cultivated watermelon and other cucurbits: opportunities and challenges -- Mapping of economic and quality related loci in watermelon -- Genetics and genomics of fruit and quality traits of watermelon -- Genetics and genomics of host resistance and develop disease tolerant cultivars of watermelon -- Molecular and Metabolic Regulation of Nutraceuticals in Watermelon -- Challenges of Traditional breeding in watermelon.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I: A Political Ecology Lens -- Chapter 1. Vulnerable, Yet Resilient -- Part Ii: Social Networks And Access To Resources -- Chapter 2. Urban Food System Concepts -- Part Iii: Solutions Without Resolution -- Chapter 3. Land, Knowledge, Strategies -- Postscript: Final Reflection -- References.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 – Antimicrobial resistance paradigm and One-health approach -- Chapter 2 – Global surveillance programs on antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 3 – Antimicrobial resistance, food systems and climate change -- Chapter 4 – In silico approaches for prioritizing drug targets in pathogens -- Chapter 5 – Molecular and systems biology approaches for analyzing drug-tolerant bacterial persister cells -- Chapter 6 – Role of gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas in the management of antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 7 – Control of bacterial biofilms for mitigating antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 8 - Intrusion of bacterial quorum-sensing for antimicrobial resistance mitigation: A pharmaceutical perspective -- Chapter 9 - Drug discovery for targeting drug resistant bacteria.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Nanotechnology: A breakthrough in Agronomy -- 2. Nanotechnology and Plant Tissue Culture -- 3. Nanotechnology and abiotic stresses -- 4. Myconanoparticles in agriculture -- 5. Nanotechnology in pest management -- 6. DNA nanobiotechnology and plant breeding -- 7. Nanotechnology and Plant Disease Diagnosis and Management -- 8. Nanofertilizers -- 9. Nanotechnology and waste water treatment -- 10. Applications of nano-biosensors in agriculture -- 11. Nanomaterials and agriwaste -- 12. Prospects and constraints.

Description / Table of Contents: Crosstalk between autophagy and hormones for abiotic stress tolerance in plants -- Abscisic acid and plant response under adverse environmental conditions -- Auxins and plant response to adverse environmental conditions -- Jasmonic acid for sustainable plant growth and production under adverse environmental conditions -- Salicylic acid for vigorous plant growth and enhanced yield under harsh environment -- Strigolactones for sustainable plant growth and production under adverse environmental conditions -- Polyamines for sustainable plant growth and production under adverse environmental conditions -- Plant performance and defensive role of proline under environmental stress -- Plant performance and defensive role of β-amino butyric acid under environmental stress -- Plant performance and defensive role of γ-gamma amino butyric acid under environmental stress -- Nitric oxide: A key modulator of plant responses under environmental stress -- Functions of hydrogen sulfide in plant regulation and response to abiotic stress -- Silicon and plant responses under adverse environmental conditions -- Nanofertilizers as tools for plant nutrition and plant biostimulation under adverse environment -- Biostimulants and plant response under adverse environmental conditions: a functional interplay -- Biofertilizers-mediated sustainable plant growth and production under adverse environmental conditions -- Seed priming: A cost-effective strategy to impart abiotic stress tolerance -- Significance of cyanobacteria in soil-plant system and for ecological resilience -- Phytomicrobiome community: An agrarian perspective -- Adverse environment and pest management for sustainable plant production -- Eco-friendly approaches of using weeds for sustainable plant growth and production.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction to Agriculturally Important Fungi for Crop Protection -- Role of Fungi in Adaptation of Agriculture Crops to Abiotic Stresses -- Arbuscualr Mycorrhizae Associations and Role in Mitigation of Drought Stress in Plants -- Fungal Mediated Alleviation of Cold Stress for Growth and Yield of Cereal Crops -- Soil Salinity and their Alleviation Using Plant Growth Promoting Fungi -- Phytohormones Producing Fungal Communities -- Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Bioactive Compounds for Plant Defence -- Fungal Endophytes -- Aspergillus Mycotoxins -- Trichoderma -- Piriformospora indica -- Bioresources for Control of Plant Parasitic Nematodes -- Global Scenario of Advance Fungal Research in Biocontrol and Crop Protection -- Index -- .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Putting Smart into Nutrition -- Chapter 2. Mozatching Feed Characteristics to Animal Requirements Through Plant Breeding -- Chapter 3. Circular Feed Production and Consumption in The Context Of Smart Animal Nutrition -- Chapter 4. Assessment of The Nutritive Value of Individual Feeds and Diets by Novel Technologies -- Chapter 5. Large Scale Phenotyping and Genotyping: State of The Art and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 6. Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to The Challenge of Forecasting Animal Performance for The Purposes of Precision Livestock Feeding -- Chapter 7. Smart Pig Nutrition in the Digital Era -- Chapter 8. Smart Poultry Nutrition -- Chapter 9. Advanced Technology in Aquaculture – Smart Feeding in Marine Fish Farms -- 10. Smart Nutrition of Extensively Kept Ruminants -- Chapter 11. The Potential Contribution of Smart Animal Nutrition in Reducing The Environmental Impacts of Livestock Systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- The weed problem -- The lives of weeds -- Controlling weeds -- Weeds, nature conservation, and global warming -- Coldwater farm habitats -- Drawings, paintings, and photographs -- Plant names -- Desert weeds identification -- Field guide -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: Introduction -- Ch 2: Physical and engineering properties of the seed -- Ch 3: Breeding and world production -- Ch 4: Functional food development and products -- Ch 5: Innovations in Bambara ground nut processing -- Ch 6: Composition and nutritional profile -- Ch 7: Ingredients and novel applications -- Ch 8: Food components and consumption trends -- Ch 9: Bambara ground nut as a climate smart crop -- Ch 10: Current and innovative packaging technologies for Bambara ground nut -- Ch 11 Integrating text mining and network analysis for potential application of Bambara ground nut -- Ch 12 Digitalization of Bambara food value -- Ch 13 Ethnonutrition and ethnomedical knowledge associated with Bambara ground nut -- Ch 14 Current and future research directions -- Ch 15 Conclusion -- Ch 16 References.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. An Introduction to Sri Lanka and its cinnamon industry -- 2. Historical, Ethno-botanical and Social Aspects of Cinnamon Cultivation in Sri Lanka -- 3. Ceylon Cinnamon Production and Markets -- 4. Botany of Endemic Cinnamomum species of Sri Lanka -- 5. Genetics and Molecular Characterization of Genus Cinnamomum -- 6. Germplasm Resources, Crop Improvement and Biotechnological Tools in aid of Cinnamon Breeding -- 7. Ecology, Agronomy and Management of Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume) -- 8.Pests and Diseases of Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume) -- 9. Cinnamon Process Technology -- 10. Chemistry and Bioactive Compounds of Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume -- 11. Tapping into the potential of cinnamon as a therapeutic agent in neurological disorders and metabolic syndrome -- 12. Pharmacological Properties of Ceylon Cinnamon -- 13. Industrial applications of Ceylon Cinnamon (Cinnamonium zeylanicum Blume) as Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals -- 14. Public-private partnership in growth and development of cinnamon industry in Sri Lanka -- 15. Value Creation and Food Products of Cinnamon -- 16. Cinnamon value chain dynamics and enhancement -- 17. Planning and Strategic Policy Interventions for Building a Globally Competitive Cinnamon Industry in Sri Lanka -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Plenary Lectures -- Food Analysis -- Food Energy Systems -- Food Trends and Competitiveness -- Food and Feed Chain Management -- Modern Challenges.

Description / Table of Contents: Section A: Overview, Institutional Change and Scaling -- Chapter 1 - Overview -- Chapter 2 - Innovation models to deliver value at scale: the RTB Program -- Chapter 3 - Scaling Readiness: learnings from applying a novel approach to support scaling of food system innovations -- Section B: Processing, Marketing and Distribution -- Chapter 4 - Cost-effective cassava processing: Case study of small-scale flash dryer reengineering -- Chapter 5 - Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Puree, a Breakthrough Product for the Bakery Sector in Africa -- Chapter 6 - Turning waste to wealth: Harnessing the potential of cassava peels for nutritious animal feed -- Chapter 7 - Transferring cassava processing technology from Brazil to Africa -- Chapter 8 - Improving Safety of Cassava Products -- Section C: Enhancing productivity -- Chapter 9 - Innovative digital technologies to monitor and control pest and disease threats in root, tuber, and banana (RTB) cropping systems: Progress and prospects -- Chapter 10 - Scaling banana bacterial wilt management through single diseased stem removal in the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 11 - Toolbox for Working with Root, Tuber and Banana Seed Systems -- Chapter 12. Securing sweetpotato planting material for farmers in dryland Africa: Gender-responsive communication approaches to scale Triple S -- Chapter 13 - Revolutionizing early generation seed potato in East Africa -- Chapter 14: Transforming Yam Seed Systems in West Africa -- Chapter 15 - Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa -- Chapter 16 - Building demand-led and gender-responsive breeding programs -- Section D: Improving livelihoods -- Chapter 17 - Scaling Readiness of Biofortified Root, Tuber, and Banana Crops for Africa.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: For What Is the Animal But the Profits Thereof? -- “Meating” the Demand: Markets and Commodification -- The Enlightenment Casts A Shadow: Anti-Cruelty in the Nineteenth Century -- Animal Disease as a Trade Issue: Cattle Plagues and the Veterinary Profession -- Internationalisation of Disease and the Trade in Animals -- Whither Ethics? -- A Sufficient Level of Repugnance -- Conclusion: Decommodifying Farm Animals.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Ancient Spores -- Spores of My Life -- Scary Spores -- Spores of the Future -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Mathematics, Statistics and Representations for Cybernetic Systems -- Control and Communication Characteristics of Agricultural Production Systems -- Modeling of Crop Production Systems and System Characterization -- Control Theory and Agricultural Production -- Control of Agricultural production Systems -- Mearning from the Data -- Outlook and Summary Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Global Food Security, Contributions from Sustainable Potato Agri-Food Systems -- The Potato and its Contribution to the Human Diet -- Enhancing Value Chains through Collective Actions: Lessons From the Andes, Africa and Asia -- Ex situ Conservation of Potato [Solanum Section Petota (Solanaceae)] Genetic Resources in Genebanks -- The Genes and Genomes of the Potato -- Potato Breeding -- Genetics and Cytogenetics of Potato -- Insect Pests Affecting Potatoes in Tropical, Subtropical and Temperate Regions -- Fungal, Oomycete and Plasmodiophorid Diseases of Potato -- Bacterial Diseases of Potato -- Viral Diseases in Potato -- Potato Seed Systems -- Participatory Research (PR) at CIP with Potato Farming Systems in the Andes: Evolution and Prospects -- Gender Topics on Potato Research and Development -- Index. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Agriculture at the Landscape Level: Scientific Background and Literature Overview -- Part 1. Observing -- Chapter 2. Agrometeorological Services for Landscape Agronomy: The Italian Case in the European Context -- Chapter 3. Availability and Integration of Agro-Environmental Data: the French case -- Chapter 4. A Method to Assess the Fragility of a Terraced System as an Example of Landscape Agronomic Analysis -- Part 2. Understanding -- Chapter 5. Exploring Futures in Landscape Agronomy: Methodological Issues and Prospects of Combining Scenarios and Spatially Explicit Models -- Chapter 6. Aligning Governance of Quality with Quality Management Systems in Territory-based Agrifood Chains -- Part 3. Supporting Action -- Chapter 7. Innovation in Education and Training: Insights from New Integrative Approaches -- Chapter 8. Innovative Governance and Participatory Research for Agriculture in Territorial Development Processes. Lessons from a Collaborative Research Program (PSDR) -- Chapter 9. Guiding Multifunctional Landscape Changes Through Collaboration – Experiences from a Danish Case Study -- Chapter 10. Landscape Agronomy: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead, from a European Perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Harnessing the Hidden Treasures in African Yam Bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa), An Underutilized Grain Legume with Food Security Potentials -- 2. The Role of Indigenous Food Species in Achieving Food Security in South-Eastern Nigeria -- 3. The potentials of African neglected and orphan crops in augmentation of African food security -- 4. Optimization of Soaking Condition and Drying Temperature for The Production of African Yam Beans (Sphenostylis sternocarpa) Flour -- 5. Harnessing the Potential of Underutilized Aquatic Bioresource For Food and Nutritional Security in Kenya -- 6. Exploring Some Neglected and Underutilized Root and Tuber Crops for Food Security in Nigeria -- 7. Finger Millet: A Crop with Food Security Potentials for Africans -- 8. An Exploratory Study of The Association Among Household Food Securing Activities, Gender and Health in South Africa -- 9. Exploring the Industrial Potential of The Nigerian Pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo L.) -- 10. Functional Meat and Meat Products for Sustainable African Nutrition Security -- 11. Agricultural Productivity: A Key Component of Inclusive Growth Towards Food Security -- 12. Optimal Formulation of a Composite Flour from Biofortified Cassava, Pigeonpea, and Soybean for Complementary Feeding -- 13. Gauging Food Insecurity Resilience Among Pastoral Communities: A Case Study of Kenya -- 14. Optimisation and Multiplication of Large Fulani Eco-Type Chicken for Sustainable Production and Genetic Security in Nigeria -- 15. Soil Quality Indicators; Their correlation and Role in Enhancing Agricultural Productivity -- 16. Soil Quality and Horticulture: Implication for Food Security and Safety in Nigeria -- 17. Beneficiation of castor and thorn trees as management strategy to food security -- 18. Soil Information as A Factor to Consider in Sustainable Tree Crop Production for Nutritional Security, Poverty Alleviation and Biodiversity Management in Africa -- 19. African Walnuts: A Natural Depository of Nutritional and Bioactive Compounds Essential for Food and Nutritional Security in Africa -- 20. Implications of Production, Post-harvest and Consumption of Fish on Food and Nutrition Security: Nigeria as a Focal Country -- 21. Improving Crop Physio-Biochemical Efficiency and Abiotic Resilient Crops for Alleviating Food Insecurity in Africa -- 22. Analysis of Cassava Farmers’ Response to Climate Change Adaptation: Implication for Sustainable Food Production in Nigeria -- 23. Sustainable Agriculture: A Way Out to Combat Food Insecurity and Unsafety in The Context of Climate Change in West Africa -- 24. Smart Crops for Climate Change and Food Security in Africa -- 25. Impact of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Food Safety and Occurrence of Foodborne Diseases -- 26. Management of Soil-Microorganism: Interphase for Sustainable Soil Fertility Management and Enhanced Food Security -- 27. The Relevance of Plant Breeding to Food Security in Africa -- 28. Extent, Impact and Prospects of Genetically Engineered Crops in Africa -- 29. Soil Microbes and Food Security Nexus: Imperativeness of Microbial Biotechnology -- 30. Production of Edible Oil from Microorganisms -- 31. Food Sustainability Enhancement: Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria as Key Players in The Alleviation of Drought Stress in Plants -- 32. Molecular Markers: Potential Facilitators in Plant Breeding and Germplasm Conservation -- 33. Biofertilizer: An Eco-Friendly Approach for Sustainable Crop Production -- 34. Design and Development of a Hybrid Bio-Solar Energy Fruit Dryer -- 35. Advances in Extrusion Technology and Its Applicability to Food Processing in Developing Nations -- 36. Nanotechnology as Vehicle for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases in Crop Production -- 37. Fusarium Species and Their Associated Mycotoxins in Foods and Their Products In Africa -- 38. Application of Nanobiotechnology In Agri-Food Sector; A Promising Technique in Food Safety -- 39. Salmonella enterica Subspecies Enterica Serotypes Associated with Meat and Meat Products in African Countries: A Review -- 40. Heavy Metals Contamination of Arable Lands: A Threat to Food Security and Safety -- 41. A Step Forward Towards Food Safety from Parasite Infective Agents -- 42. African Fermented Food as Antimicrobial Agents -- 43. Risk Assessment of Human Carcinogenicity of Acrylamide in Food: Way to Reduce the Predicted Mitogenic Side Effects Through Mitigation Strategy -- 44. Safety Hazards Along Animal Food Supply Chain in Nigeria.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction—implications of climate change for pests expansion and crop protection -- 2. Herbicide metabolism, weed growth, competition and control under changing climate -- 3. Climate change and invasive weeds -- 4. Impact of climate change on plant diseases and their management -- 5. Influence of climate change on insect pests and their management -- 6. Crop protection under drought stress -- 7. Impact of climate change on crop yields and quality -- 8. Impact of global warming on society and environment; issues and solutions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- History of Wheat Breeding: A Personal View -- Defining Target Wheat Breeding Environments -- Global Trends in Wheat Production, Consumption and Trade -- Breeding Methods: Line Development -- Breeding Methods: Population Improvement and Selection Methods -- Achieving Genetic Gains in Practice -- Wheat Rusts: Current Status, Prospects of Genetic Control and Integrated Approaches to Enhance Resistance Durability -- Globally Important Non-Rust Diseases of Wheat -- Abiotic Stresses -- Wheat Quality -- Nutritionally Enhanced Wheat for Food and Nutrition Security -- Experimental Design for Plant Improvement -- Seed Systems to Support Rapid Adoption of Improved Varieties in Wheat -- Crop Management for Breeding Trials -- A Century of Cytogenetic and Genome Analysis: Impact on Wheat Crop Improvement -- Conserving Wheat Genetic Resources -- Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security -- Disease Resistance -- Insect Resistance -- Yield Potential -- Heat and Climate Change Mitigation -- Drought -- Micronutrient Toxicity and Deficiency -- Pre-breeding Strategies -- Translational Research Networks -- High Throughput Field Phenotyping -- Sequence-based marker assisted selection in wheat -- Application of CRISPR-Cas-based Genome Editing for Precision Breeding in Wheat -- Accelerating Breeding Cycles -- Improving Wheat Production and Breeding Strategies Using Crop Models -- Theory and Practice of Phenotypic and Genomic Selection Indices.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to genome editing techniques: Implication in modern agriculture -- Application of bioinformatics tools in CRISPR/Cas -- CRISPR and food security: Application in cereal crops -- Improvement of floriculture crops using CRISPR/Cas and genome editing techniques -- Engineering crop plant resistance against abiotic stresses: CRISPR/Cas application and challenges -- Vegetable crop improvement using CRISPR/Cas -- Use of CRISPR/Cas in climate smart/resilient agriculture -- Intellectual Property Landscape on CRISPR/Cas.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Importance of rice as human food -- Chapter 2. Botany of rice plant -- Chapter 3. Ontogeny of organ development in rice plant -- Chapter 4. Fertilization and seed development in rice -- Chapter 5. The cellular basis of rice seed growth -- Chapter 6. Genetic analyses of floral development on rice panicle -- Chapter 7. Diversity of panicle architecture and traits influencing grain filling -- Chapter 8. Change of panicle architecture during domestication -- Chapter 9. Physiology of variation in individual grain weight of rice panicle -- Chapter 10. Enzymes controlling starch biosynthesis -- Chapter 11. Hormonal regulation of spikelet development -- Chapter 12. Effects of environmental stresses on physiological factors influencing grainfilling of rice panicle -- Chapter 13. Designer rice in quest of high grain filling.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1 Nanoparticles from Fungal Resources: Importance and Applications -- 2 Nanoparticles Incorporated Soy Protein Isolate Films -- 3 Formulation, Characterization, and Potential Application of Nanoemulsions in Food and Medicine -- 5 Advances in Agronanotechnology and Future Prospects -- 6 Nanobiotechnology and Its Application in Agriculture and Food Production -- 7 Application of Nanotechnology for Sustainable Crop Production Systems -- 8 Nanoparticles from Endophytic Fungi and Their Efficacy in Biological Control -- 9 Application of Nanotechnology in Polyphagous Destructive Insect Pest Management of Agricultural Crops -- 10 Myconanoparticles as Potential Pest Control Agents -- 11 Nanoparticles and Their Role in Bioenergy Production -- 12 Remediation of Heavy Metal Ions using Nanomaterials Sourced from Wastewaters -- 13 Application of Nanotechnology in the Bioremediation of Heavy metals and Wastewater Management -- 14 Biogenic Nanoparticles for Degradation of Noxious Dyes -- 15 Ecotoxicity of Nanomaterials in Aquatic Environment -- 16 Impact of Nanomaterials on Beneficial Insects in Agricultural Ecosystem -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Potential of Streptomyces and its Secondary Metabolites for Biocontrol of Fungal Plant Pathogens -- Chapter. 2. Antifungal Secondary Metabolites against Blast Fungus - Magnaporthe oryzae -- Chapter. 3. Utilization of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) Against Phytopathogens -- Chapter. 4. PGPR in Biofilm Formation and Antibiotic Production -- Chapter. 5. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria As Antifungal Antibiotics Producers -- Chapter. 6. Biofungicidal Properties of Rhizobacteria for Plant Growth Promotion and Plant Disease Resistance -- Chapter. 7. Antifungal Compounds of Plant Growth Promoting Bacillus species -- Chapter. 8. Bioactive Biomolecules from Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) -- Chapter. 9. Metabolomic Profiling of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Biological Control of Phytopathogens -- Chapter. 10. Hydrolytic enzymes from PGPR against Plant Fungal Pathogens -- Chapter. 11. Induction of Hydrolytic Enzymes: A Criterion for Biological Control Candidates Against Fungal Pathogen -- Chapter. 12. Pseudomonas as Biocontrol Agent for Fungal Disease Management in Rice Crop -- Chapter. 13. Interaction of Mycorrhizal Fungi with Rhizospheric Microbes and their Mode of Action -- Chapter. 14. The Potential of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as Biological Tools in Enhancing Agricultural Sustainability -- Chapter. 15. Role of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) in Food Security -- Chapter. 16. Plant-Microbe-Insect Interactions: Concepts and Applications for Agricultural Sustainability -- Chapter. 17. Exploring the Crucial Role of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) in Plant Secondary Metabolite Production and Diabetes management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. The utilization of speed breeding and genome editing to achieve zero hunger -- Chapter. 2. Multiomics approach for crop improvement under climate change -- Chapter. 3. The intervention of multi-omics approaches for developing abiotic stress resistance in cotton crops under climate change -- Chapter. 4. Big data revolution and machine learning to solve genetic mysteries in crop breeding -- Chapter. 5. Applications of multi-omics approaches for food and nutritional security -- Chapter. 6. Applications of high throughput phenotypic phenomics -- Chapter. 7. Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) : Botany, Genetic resource, Cultivation, Conservation, and Stress factors -- Chapter. 8. Multi-Omics Approaches for Breeding in Medicinal Plants -- Chapter. 9. Applications of some nanoparticles and responses of medicinal and aromatic plants under stress conditions -- Chapter. 10. Sustainable agriculture through technological innovations -- Chapter. 11. Sustainable Rice Production under Biotic and Abiotic Stress Challenges -- Chapter. 12. Emerging Techniques to Develop Biotic Stress Resistance in Fruits and Vegetables -- Chapter. 13. Genome editing in crops to control insect pests -- Chapter. 14. CRISPR revolution in gene editing, targeting plant stress tolerance and physiology -- Chapter. 15. Genomics for Abiotic Stress Resistance in Legumes -- Chapter. 16. Genetic and molecular factors modulating phosphorous use efficiency in plants -- Chapter. 17. Recent Trends in Genome Editing Technologies for Agricultural Crops Improvement -- Chapter. 18. Recent trends and applications of omics based knowledge to end global food hunger -- Chapter. 19. Nutritional enhancement in horticultural crops by CRISPR/ Cas9: status and future prospects -- Chapter. 20. Physiological interventions of antioxidants in crop plants under multiple abiotic stresses -- Chapter. 21. Proteomics and its scope to study salt stress tolerance in quinoa -- Chapter. 22. Sustainable Cotton Production in Punjab: Failure and its Mitigating Strategies -- Chapter. 23. Biosafety and biosecurity in genetically modified crops.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Agrarian Metabolism: the metabolic approach applied to agriculture -- 1.1. Agriculture and Social Metabolism: The metabolism of agroecosystems -- 1.2. Funds and flows in Agrarian Metabolism -- 1.3. The appropriation of biomass and colonization of the territory. Biophysical funds (land and livestock) -- 1.4. Social fund elements (human work and technical means of production) -- 1.5. The organization and dynamics of agrarian metabolism -- 1.6. The forces of change -- 1.7. Sources and methods -- 1.7.1. The specificities of AM -- 1.7.2. Scale and delimitations of the study -- 1.7.3. Sources of information -- 2. Intensification and Specialization: from Agricultureto Livestocking, 1900-2008 -- 2.1. Traditional historiographical accounts of agricultural transformations during the twentieth century -- 2.2. The evolution of land uses -- 2.3. Evolution of real net primary productivity -- 2.4. Evolution of Domestic Extraction -- 2.5. The specialization of Spain’s agricultural production -- 2.6. Spanish livestock in the twentieth century -- 2.7. Livestock production -- 2.8. An overview of Spanish agriculture industrialization -- 3. Agricultural inputs and their energy costs 1900-2010 -- 3.1. Comments on methodology -- 3.2. Traction -- 3.2.1 Mechanical traction -- 3.2.2. Combustibles -- 3.3. Irrigation -- 3.3.1. Irrigation systems -- 3.3.2. Installed mechanical power -- 3.3.3. Combustibles -- 3.3.4. Electricity -- 3.4. Fertilizers -- 3.5. Crop protection -- 3.5.1. Pesticides -- 3.5.2. Greenhouses -- 3.6. Use of inputs in the agricultural sector (Imports) -- 4. Decreasing income and reproductive problems of the agricultural population -- Introduction -- 4.1. The agricultural population during the first half of the twentieth century -- 4.2. An estimate of the agricultural sector’s macromagnitudes (1950-2008) -- 4.3. The agricultural population and changing living standards -- 4.4. The state of the agriculturalpopulation -- 4.5. Changes in farm structures -- 4.6. Breakdown of agricultural income and coverage of household expenditure -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 5. Environmental Impacts of Spanish Agriculture’s Industrialization -- 5.1. Functioning of the agroecosystem -- 5.2. The energy efficiency of agricultural production -- 5.3. State of the components of the land fund element -- 5.4. A diet rich in food of animal origin: the outsourcing of its land costs -- 6. The Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture -- 6.1. The agrarian sector in the metabolism of the Spanish economy -- 6.2. Foreign trade and domestic consumption of biomass -- 6.3. The main indicators of agrarian metabolism -- 6.4. The pace of intensification and specialization (I+S) -- 6.5. The drivers of I+S -- 6.5.1. Supply side drivers of I+S -- 6.5.2. Demand side drivers of I+S -- 6.6. Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Appendix I. Calculation of the physical production series of Spanish agriculture -- A.1.1. Sources and methodological decisions to calculate the Domestic Extraction of Vegetal Biomass -- A.1.2. The reliability of livestock censuses -- A.1.3. Adjusting Spanish livestock in the first third of the twentieth century -- Appendix II. Historical evolution of the Spanish Agrarian Metabolism and the Spanish Economy Metabolism -- A.2.1. Historical evolution of the Spanish Agrarian Metabolism -- A.2.2. Historical evolution of Spanish Economy Metabolism -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. An introduction to climate change phenomenon -- Chapter2. Agro-meteorological Aspect of Climate Change -- Chapter3. Impact of elevated temperature on plant morphological and physiological traits -- Chapter4. Infirmity to climate change and regional impacts -- Chapter5. Climate resilience in agriculture -- Chapter6. Field crop production in relation to climate change -- Chapter7. Horticultural crops as affected by climate change -- Chapter8. Changing climate impacts on forest resources -- Chapter9. Climate change a great threat to fisheries -- Chapter10. Water resources in relation to climate change -- Chapter11. Importance of water management in the era of climate change -- Chapter12. Climate change and Salinity effects on crops -- Chapter13. Morphological, Physiological and Biochemical Modulations in Crops under Salt Stress caused by climate change. Chapter14. Weed management and climate change -- Chapter15. Insect pest management under climate change -- Chapter16. Effects of climate change on the Socio-Economic conditions of farmers-a case study -- Chapter17. Research on climate change issue -- Chapter18. Role of Modeling in studying climate change -- Chapter19. Nutrient dynamics and role of modeling -- Chapter20. Climate smart agriculture technologies -- Chapter21. Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensors Technologies in Smart Agriculture: Applications, Opportunities and Current Trends -- Chapter22. World nations priorities on climate change and food security -- Chapter23. Importance of Carbon sequestration in the scenario of climate change.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Brief Biographical Sketch of Yerba Mate -- Chapter 3. “Get[ting] Behind the Veil” -- Chapter 4. INYM, Prices, and the Argentine Yerba Mate “Food System” -- Chapter 5. Socio-Environmental Consequences of Low Margins -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER I: Introduction -- CHAPTER II: Socioecological profile of the Rain-fed Regions -- CHAPTER III: Implementation Process: Quality, equity and Sustenance -- CHAPTER IV: Moving Towards Sustainable -- CHAPTER V: Making of Climate Smart Communities: Experiences and Learnings -- CHAPTER VI: Conclusions and Policy Imperatives -- References -- Appendices.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Contaminants in Agriculture -- Role of Nutrients in Plant Growth and Development -- Practice and Impact of Pesticides in Agricultural Crops -- Response of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers on Soil Microbial Population and Yield of Plants -- An Overview of the Effect of Heavy Metals on Soil and Plant Growth -- Effect of Acid Rain on Crop Plants and its Mitigation Approaches -- Heavy Metals -- Heavy Metal Induced Gene Expression in Plants -- Nano-contaminants -- Heavy Metal Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants -- Planning and Engineering Applications of Agricultural Wastes and their Remediation Strategies -- The Use of Constructed Wetlands to Mitigate Pollution from Agricultural Runoff -- Role of Nitrogen and Agricultural Management in Changing Environment -- Efficient Biotransformation of Agricultural Waste in India -- Impact of Bio-fertilizers/ Mineral Fertilizers on Crop Production under Contaminated Soils -- Nutrient Management for Medicinal Plants grown in Calcareous Soils -- Intimidating Effects of Heavy Metals on Mentha Species and Its Mitigation Using Scientific Approaches -- Impact of Heavy Metals on Catharanthus roseus and Its Amelioration through Conceivable Approaches -- Role of Cobalt in Plants -- Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils of Mining Areas -- Bioremediation of Toxic Pollutants -- Ecological Implications of Atmospheric Nutrient Deposition in Low-Nutrient Ecosystems -- Utilization of Sericulture Waste by Employing Possible Approaches -- Inimical Effects of Arsenic on the Plant Physiology and Possible Biotechnological Solutions to Mitigate Arsenic Induced Toxicity -- The Use of Vermicompost Leachate for Irrigation in Two South American Plant Species -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Origin of Potato Production Systems -- 2. Potato Growth and Development -- 3. Variety Selection and Management -- 4. Seed Production and Certification -- 5. Field Selection, Crop Rotations & Soil Management -- 6. Alternative/Organic Management Systems -- 7. Seed and Planting Management -- 8. Nutrient Management -- 9. Disease Management -- 10. Nematode Management -- 11. Insect Pests and Their Management -- 12. Weed Management -- 13. Irrigation Management -- 14. Physiological Disorders -- 15. Tuber Quality -- 16. Harvest Management -- 17. Storage Management -- 18. Principles of Economics and Marketing -- 19. Cost of Production -- 20. Processing and Nutrition -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-The potential of resistant starch type 1 for nutritional food security -- 2-Evaluation of bioaccumulation of heavy metals in some fish species from the rice farms’ channels of Pouss (Far-North, Cameroon) -- 3-Evaluation of the levels of nine heavy metals in five crops using AAS and XRF -- 4-The role of food in the health management of geriatrics -- 5-Genetically modified crops: perspectives and safety concerns in Africa -- 6-Indigenous leafy vegetables and health management in South Western Nigeria: A review based on Osun State -- 7-Combined application of subsurface drainage and fertilization, a method to reduce the effects of iron and sulfide toxicities in irrigated rice fields in Burkina Faso -- 8-Is food medicine? Lessons from a household survey on plants used to manage anaemia in Kilifi County, Kenya -- 9-Plantain bioactives: An underutilised food resource in Africa -- 10-New perspectives in the utilization of African leafy vegetables -- 11-The uptake of farming technological innovations for food security in Kejom Ketinguh of the North West region of Cameroon. A contribution to anthropology of food production -- 12-Food and nutrition insecurity in Africa: The primary drivers and sustainable strategies to improve the current status -- 13-Marker-assisted selection (MAS): Untapped potential for enhancing food and nutrition securities in Sub Saharan Africa -- 14-Harnessing the opportunities for sustainable small-scale rural farming towards attaining food security in Southern Africa -- 15-Improving food security in Africa through sustainable utilization of selected climate smart emerging crops: A case of Botswana and Namibia -- 16-Essentials of nutraceuticals and probiotics -- 17-Phenotypic characterisation of nine accessions of okra -- 18-Long-term restorative farming effects on soil biological properties for carbon stock, soil quality and yield in a Nigerian northern guinea savanna alfisols -- 19-Climate change: impact on food security for health management and its adaptation strategies for sustainability among households in Southeast, Nigeria -- 20-Climate change, growth in agriculture value added, food availability and economic growth nexus in the Gambia: A Granger causality and ARDL modeling approach -- 21-Adoption of genomics and breeding strategies to improve goat productivity in Southern Africa.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Introduction: Global Status and Production of Faba-bean -- 2-Agrarian conditions and post-harvest practices of Faba bean -- 3-Physical and Milling Characteristics of Faba-Bean -- 4-Chemistry, Nutrient composition and Quality of Faba Beans -- 5-Faba-Bean: Chemistry, Properties, and Functionality -- 6-Faba-bean Antioxidant and Bioactive Composition: Biochemistry and Functionality -- 7-Effect of processing on the nutrients and anti-nutrients of faba-bean -- 8-Effect of Storage on Quality and Cooking Attributes of Faba Bean -- 9-Faba bean starch: structure, physicochemical properties, modification, and potential industrial applications -- 10-Faba Bean Proteins: Extraction Methods, Properties and Applications -- 11-Biofortification: Quality improvement of Faba Bean -- 12-Faba Bean Utilization: Past, Present and Future -- 13-Current and Potential Health Claims of Faba Beans (Vicia faba, L.) and its components -- 14-Disease Management of Faba Beans.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Fig (Ficus carica): Production, Processing, and Properties -- Section 1. Fig (Ficus carica): Cultivation, species, and cultivars -- Figs in Morocco: Diversity patterns, valorization pathways and chain value resilience -- Fig tree genome and diversity -- Genetic diversity of fig varieties -- Bud structure and evolution -- Phenotypic variability of fig (Ficus carica) -- Morpho-chemical Characteristics Useful in the Identification of Fig (Ficus carica L.) Germplasm -- Agronomic strategies for fig cultivation in a temperate-humid climate zone -- Cultivars and agricultural practices of fig (Ficus carica) -- Physiological behaviour of fig tree (Ficus carica L.) under different climatic conditions -- Fig (Ficus carica) production and yield -- Defense mechanism of fig (Ficus carica) against biotic stresses: An advanced role model under Moraceae -- Section 2: Fig (Ficus carica): Chemistry, functionality and health-promoting properties -- Chemistry and nutritional value of fresh and dried fig (Ficus carica) -- Fig seeds: source of value-added oil within the scope of circular economy -- Fig (Ficus carica) leaves: composition and functional properties -- Fig (Ficus carica) oil -- Composition and functional properties of fig (Ficus carica) phenolics -- Phenolic compounds of Fresh and dried fig: Characterization and health effects -- Ficus carica L. as a source of natural bioactive flavonoids -- Fig (Ficus carica) minerals -- Bioactive compounds of fig (Ficus carica) -- Fig volatiles -- Fig Enzymes: Characterization, Biological Roles, and Applications -- Preventive roles of phytochemicals from Ficus carica in Diabetes and its secondary complications -- Composition and health-promoting effects of fig (Ficus carica) extracts -- Genotoxic and antimutagenic activity of Ficus carica extracts -- Composition and biological activities of Ficus carica latex -- Extraction and analysis of polyphenolic compounds in Ficus carica L. -- Section 3: Fig (Ficus carica): Technology, processing, and applications -- Fig drying technologies -- Chemistry and functionality of processed fig -- Fig Syrup as a natural sugar substitute -- Fig shelf life -- Use of proteolytic activity of Ficus carica in milk coagulation.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The harsh environment and resilient plants - An overview -- 2. Expression and regulation of stress-responsive genes in plants under harsh environmental conditions -- 3. Genome editing: A tool from the vault of science for engineering climate-resilient cereals -- 4. Advancement in molecular and fast breeding programmes for climate resilient agriculture practices -- 5. Recombinant DNA technology for sustainable plant growth and production -- 6. Regulatory role of micro-RNAs in plants under challenging environmental conditions with special focus on drought and salinity -- 7. Molecular mechanisms of heat shock proteins for sustainable plant growth and production -- 8. Physiological and molecular responses to heavy metals stresses in plants -- 9. Morpho-anatomical, physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of plants to air pollution -- 10. Physiological and molecular responses to high, chilling and freezing temperature in plant growth and production: consequences and mitigation possibilities -- 11. Physiological and molecular responses to salinity due to excessive Na+ in plants -- 12. Physiological and molecular responses to drought, submergence and excessive watering in plants -- 13. Mitogen-activated protein kinase, plants and heat stress -- 14. Cross talk between heme oxygenase 1 and lateral root development for salt tolerance -- 15. Salt-tolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: A new-fangled approach for improving crop yield -- 16. Improving resilience against drought stress among crop plants through inoculation of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria -- 17. Trends in biosensors and current detection methods for stress monitoring of plants growing in adverse environmental conditions -- 18. Secondary metabolites for sustainable plant growth and production under adverse environment conditions -- 19. Medicinal plants and their pharmaceutical properties under adverse environment conditions -- 20. Progress and major research challenges under changing environmental conditions.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Genetic enhancement in major food legumes: An overview -- Trends in Legumes Production and Future Outlook -- Genomics: Shaping legumes improvement -- Genetic engineering of grain legumes: Their potential for sustainable agriculture and food and nutritional security -- Hybrid breeding in food legumes with special reference to pigeonpea, faba bean, and soybean -- Biotic stresses in food legumes: An update and future prospects -- Identification, evaluation and utilization of resistance to insect pests in grain legumes: advancement and restrictions -- Using crop modelling to improve chickpea adaptation in variable environments -- Recent advances in the agronomy of food legumes -- Scaling-up food legumes production through genetic gain and improved management -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: The origin of cisgenesis, and its evolving definition -- Cisgenesis: enabling an innovative green agriculture by deploying genes from the breeders’ gene pool -- Cisgenesis and Intragenesis: innovative tool for crop improvement -- Cis Genesis of Crops -- Cisgenesis and plant breeding: A Review -- Opportunities for generic cisgenic crops -- Cisgenesis and Organic Farming -- Cisgenic Crops and Disease Resistance -- Cisgenesis and intragenesis as a biotechnological tool to improve abiotic stress tolerance in commercial crops -- DNA markers: an essential tool for cis-genic improvement of rice -- Cisgenic crops: major strategies to create cisgenic plants based on genome editing -- Cisgenesis in the era of genome editing and modern plant biotechnology -- The application of the bioinformatic, biotechnological, agronomic, and genetic improvement tools can help to develop plant species in less time, and with better characteristics.

Description / Table of Contents: C ontents -- Part 1. Theory -- To Understand Economics, Follow the Money: To Understand Ecosystems, Follow the Energy -- Two Views of Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation -- Why I Wrote this Book -- Dualities Still Impede Conservation Efforts -- The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform of Biodiversity -- Targets for Conservation -- Evolving Objectives -- Literature Review -- Updating Ecosystem Ecology -- References -- What Can We Learn by Studying Ecosystems that We Can’t Learn from Studying Populations? -- The Predator-Prey Conundrum -- The Serengeti Ecosystem -- Evolution in the “Ecological Theater” -- Predator-Prey Interactions Tell Only Part of the Story -- Evolution in the “Thermodynamic Theater” -- References -- A Thermodynamic Definition of Ecosystems -- Ecosystems in the 20th Century -- Cycling of Strontium-90 -- Cesium-137 in Food Chains -- Recycling of Isotopes in Norwegian Sheep -- Ecological Energetics -- Is it Time to Bury the Ecosystem Concept? -- A Thermodynamic Definition of Life -- A Thermodynamic Definition of Ecosystems -- The Phase Transition between Order and Chaos -- References -- Thermodynamic Characteristics of Ecosystems -- Equilibrium -- The Equilibrium Law -- Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- Open Thermodynamic Systems -- Ecosystems are Thermodynamically Open Non-Equilibrium Systems -- Work is Performed by Non-equilibrium Systems -- Advantage of a Thermodynamically Open System -- 4.3 Ecosystems are Entropic -- 4.4 Ecosystems are Cybernetic -- Cybernetic Systems -- Economic Systems are Cybernetic Ecosystems are Cybernetic -- The Ecosystem Feedback Function -- Indirect vs. Direct Feedback -- Deviation Dampening and Amplifying Feedback -- Set Points -- Ecosystems are Autocatalytic -- Ecosystems have Boundaries -- Ecosystems are Hierarchical -- Hierarchy in Physical Systems -- Hierarchy in Ecological Systems -- Common Currencies -- Macro-and Micro-System Models -- Why an Ecosystem Model that Includes Everything is not Possible -- A Nested Marine Community -- Ecosystems are Deterministic -- Ecosystems are Information Rich -- An Engineering Definition of Information -- Information to Facilitate Exchange -- High Energy Information -- Low Energy Information -- Information Theory -- Genetic Information -- Ecosystems are Non-Teleological -- Criticisms of Ecosystem Models -- References -- Ecosystem Control: A Top-Down View -- Two Ways to Look at Systems -- Composing and Decomposing Trophic Webs -- Decomposers in Soil Organic Matter -- Decomposers in Marshes and Mangroves -- Control of Systems -- Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up -- Top-Down Exogenous Control -- Exogenous Impacts and Stability -- Top-Down Endogenous Control -- Endogenous Control through Nutrient Recycling -- Autocatalysis -- Control of Microbial Activity -- Inhibition of Microbial Activity by Leaf Sclerophylly -- Inhibition of Microbial Activity Chemical Defenses -- Inhibition of Microbial Activity by Ecological Stoichiometry -- The Synchrony Principle -- The Decay Law -- Direct Nutrient Cycling -- The Role of Animals -- Indirect Interactions -- Marine Systems -- Nutrient and Energy Recycling -- Exogenous Control -- Control in Lakes -- Control in Managed Ecosystems -- References -- Ecosystem Control: A Bottom-Up View -- Species as Arbitrageurs of Energy -- Relation Between Rate of Flow and Mass in Hydraulic Systems -- Relation Between Population Biomass and Rate of Energy Flow -- Equilibrium -- Mechanisms of Adjustment -- Adjustments and Climate Change -- Bird Populations -- Dis-equilibrium -- Population Instability vs. Ecosystem Instability -- Control by Interactions: Direct vs. Indirect -- Indirect Interactions -- Direct Interactions -- Predator – Prey -- Mutualisms -- Competition -- Decomposition -- Parasitism and Disease -- Commensalism and Amensalism -- Persistence of Negative Interactions -- References -- Ecosystem Stability -- Background -- A Thermodynamic Definition -- Regime Shift -- Metastability -- Pulsed Stability -- Resistance and Resilience -- Species Richness and Functional Stability -- Species Richness and Cultural Values -- Keystone Species, and Population and Ecosystem Stability -- 7.5.1 Keystone Species in the Yellowstone region of Wyoming -- References -- 8. Case Studies of Ecosystem Control and Stability -- Walden -- “Harmony in Nature” -- Feedback Produces Nature’s “Harmony” -- Feedback Mechanisms -- Perturbations in Amazon Rain Forests -- Top-Down Control -- The San Carlos Project: A Small-scale, Low Intensity, Short Duration Disturbance -- 8.3.2 The Jarí Project: A Large-scale, High Intensity, Long Duration Disturbance -- Bottom-Up Control -- The El Verde Project -- The Long-Term Ecological Research Project in Puerto Rico -- The Lago Guri Island Project -- The Biological Dynamics of Tropical Rainforest Fragments Project -- What have Case Studies Taught us about Stability of Tropical Ecosystems? -- Tropical Ecosystems are Stable -- Tropical Ecosystems are Unstable -- Energy Flow in Tropical Savannas and Rain Forests -- Insects in Tropical Ecosystems -- Application of Lessons to Other Regions -- Relevance to Temperate Zones -- Relevance to Aquatic Ecosystems -- The Experimental Lakes Project (Ecosystem Control of Species) -- Lake Mendota Studies (Species Control of Ecosystems) -- 8.7 Case Studies as Tests of Thermodynamic Theory -- References -- Entropy and Maximum Power -- Entropy -- 9.2 Entropy in a Steel Bar -- Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- Entropic Gradients -- Capturing and Storing Entropy -- Evapotranspiration and Entropy Reduction -- Life is a Balance between Storing and Releasing Entropy -- The Law of Maximum Entropy Production -- Energy for Metabolism as well as Growth -- Unassisted Entropy Capture is a Unique Characteristic of Life.-9.6Entropy Storage by Ecosystems -- 9.6.1 What Causes Entropy to be Stored? -- 9.7 Capturing Pressure -- 9.8 Entropy and Time -- 9.8.1 Time’s Speed Regulator -- Efficiency of Energy Transformations -- Passage of Time for Cats -- 9.9The Maximum Power Principle.-9.10 Optimum Efficiencies for a Truck and its Driver.-9.11 Sustainability -- References -- A Thermodynamic View of Succession -- 10.1 The Population View -- 10.2 The Thermodynamic View -- 10.2.1 Leaf Area Index and Succession -- 10.2.2 Power Output as a Function of Leaf Area Index -- 10.2.3 What Causes Changes in Leaf Area Index? -- 10.2.4 Maximum Entropy Production Principle -- 10.2.5 Successional Ecosystems Move Further from Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- 10.2.6 Entropy Storage by Animals -- 10.3 The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -- A Problem with Odum’s Strategy -- Why Power Output Continues to Increase -- Revised Definition of Maximum Power -- Costs of Ecosystem Stabilization -- Transactional Costs -- Succession, Power Output, and Efficiency -- 10.5.1 Kleiber’s Law -- Are Ecosystems Spendthrifts? -- Interactions Between Species Facilitate Increase in Power Output -- Facilitation -- Tolerance -- Inhibition -- Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis -- Nutrient Use Efficiency during Succession -- Succession Following Logging vs Following Agriculture -- 10.10 Thermodynamic View of Succession: Implications for Resource Management -- References -- Panarchy -- The Universal Cycle of Systems -- Panarchy -- Thermodynamic Interpretation of the Sacred Rules -- 11.2.1 Growth and Consolidation -- 11.2.2 Collapse -- Renewal -- Sub-systems -- Panarchy over 2 Billion Years of Evolution -- Consolidation, Bureaucracy and System Collapse -- Bureaucracy in Action (Case Studies) -- Case Study: Panarchy in the Georgia Piedmont -- Thermodynamic Interpretation -- References -- 12. A Thermodynamic View of Evolution -- 12.1 Life – A Physicist's View -- 12.1.1 Life is Produced by Capturing Entropy -- 12.1.2 The Origin of Life -- 12.2 Two Approaches to Evolution -- 12.2.1 The Eco-Evo-Devo View -- 12.2.2 The Thermodynamic View -- 12.2.3 Fitness -- 12.2.4 The “Goal” of Evolution -- 12.3 The Relationship between Species and Environment -- 12.3.1 Evolution’s “Theater” -- 12.3.2 Is Evolution Stochastic or Deterministic? -- 12.4 Ecosystem Evolution -- 12.4.1 Succession was the Clue -- 12.4.2 Ecosystems Moved away from Equilibrium -- 12.4.3 Thermodynamic Mechanisms -- 12.4.4 Biological Mechanisms -- 12.4.5 Ecosystem Fitness -- 12.4.6 Ecosystems Evolve One Step at a Time -- 12.5. The Origin of Ecosystems -- 12.5.1 Origin of Feedback Loops -- 12.5.2 Origin of Trophic Levels -- 12.5.3 Why are there Trophic Levels? -- 12.6 The “Goal” of Ecosystem Evolution -- 12.6.1 Conflicting Goals? -- 12.6.2 “Motivations” of Species -- 12.6.3 The Earth Ecosystem -- 12.6.4 Why is there Resistance to the Idea of Ecosystem Evolution? -- 12.6.5 Evolution of Economic Systems -- 12.7 A Thermodynamic Model of Ecosystem Evolution -- 12.7.1 Network Models -- 12.7.2 Increase in Complexity of Trophic Webs -- 12.7.3 Evolution of Trophic Webs -- 12.7.4 Life Moves Ashore -- 12.8 Biodiversity and the Five Great Extinctions -- 12.8.1 The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary Extinction -- 12.8.2The Amazing Sustainability of Trophic Chains -- 12.8.3 A Test of Thermodynamic Theory -- 12.9 Panarchy and Evolution -- 12.10 Thermodynamic Requirements for Living Systems on Other Planets -- References -- -- Why is Species Diversity Higher in the Tropics? -- 13.1 Tropical Explorations -- 13.2 A Few Theories -- 13.3 A Thermodynamic Explanation -- 13.3.1 The Latitudinal Energy Gradient -- 13.3.2 The Latitudinal Productivity Gradient -- 13.3.3 The Data -- 13.3.4 Other Factors Affecting Productivity -- 13.4 Empirical Evidence for a High Productivity High Diversity Correlation -- 13.5 Humboldt’s Enigma -- 13.5.1 Are Productivity and Species Richness Correlated on Tropical -- Mountains? -- 13.6 The Mechanism Linking Productivity and Diversity -- 13.7 Answer to “Why is Species Diversity Higher in the Tropics?” -- 13.7.1 Differences within the Tropics -- 13.8 Why is Species Diversity Low at High Latitudes? -- 13.9 An Economic Perspective on D.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to subsoil constraints for crop production -- The geological, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological background of Tropical Regoliths and hostile subsoils: The Brazilian landmass -- Soil acidity and acidification -- Salinity, Sodicity and Alkalinity -- Pyritic subsoils in acid sulfate soils and similar problems in mined areas with sulfidic rocks -- Physical subsoil constraints of agricultural and forestry land -- Subsoil and surface soil constraints of mined land and tailings -- Sand and gravel subsoils -- Soilborne pathogens -- Root systems of agricultural crops and their response to physical and chemical subsoil constraints -- Roots and beneficial interactions with soil microbes -- Nutrient acquisition with particular reference to subsoil constraints -- Water acquisition by roots from the subsoil: impact of physical constraints on the dynamics of water capture -- Deep soil carbon – characteristics and measurement with particular bearing on kaolinitic profiles -- Live subsoils: tropical regolith and biota interactions -- Subsoil constraints for crop production: recent advances, new technologies and priorities for further research.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction to electronic monitoring of the feeding behavior of phytophagous true bugs -- 2. Mouthparts description and modes of feeding of phytophagous true bugs -- 3. Feeding sites of true bugs and resulting damage to plants -- 4. Electronic monitoring of the feeding behavior of phytophagous stink bugs (Pentatomidae) -- 5. Electronic monitoring of the feeding behavior of Blissidae, Coreidae, Miridae, and Plataspidae -- 6. EPG procedures for true bugs (Heteroptera) -- 7. Role of EPG in developing and assessing control methods for heteropteran crop pests -- 8. Perspectives on the use of EPG in electronic monitoring of phytophagous true bugs.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Sustainable Organic Synthesis in Ionic Liquids -- Industrial Applications of Green Solvents in Organic and Drug Synthesis for Sustainable Development of Chemical Process and Technologies -- Applications of Ionic Liquids in Organic Synthesis -- Water-Mediated Catalyst-Free Organic Transformations -- Modifications on Polymeric Membranes for Isopropanol Dehydration Using Pervaporation: A Review -- Environmentally Benign Organic Synthesis -- Green Aspects of Scale-Up Synthesis of some APIs, Drug Candidates Under Development, or Their Critical Intermediates -- Green Approaches to Synthesize Organic Compounds and Drugs -- Selective Conversion of Glycerol to Lactic Acid Using Porous Multi-Functional Mixed Oxide Catalysts Under Alkaline Environment -- Green Biological Synthesis of Nanoparticles and their Biomedical Applications -- Silver Nanostructures, Chemical Synthesis Methods, and Biomedical Applications -- The Role of Heterogenous Catalysts in Converting Cellulose to Platform Chemicals -- Production of Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) from Battery Waste: Green and Sustainable Synthesis and Reduction -- Bio-Catalysis as a Green Approach for Industrial Waste Treatment -- Green Synthesis of Biodiesel Using Microbial Lipases -- Industrial Applications of Green Solvents for Sustainable Development of Technologies in Organic Synthesis -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Agriculturally Important Fungi: Plant - Microbe Association for Mutual Benefits -- Endophytic Fungi: Diversity, Abundance, and Plant Growth Promoting Attributes -- The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community in Paddy Soil -- Natural Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization of Wheat and Maize Crops under different Agricultural Practices -- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and their Potential Applications for Sustainable Agriculture -- Phosphate Solubilizing Fungi: Current Perspective, Mechanisms and Potential Agricultural Applications -- Fungal Phytohormones: Plant Growth-Regulating Substances and their Applications in Crop Productivity -- Phytohormones Producing Fungal Communities: Metabolic Engineering for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops -- Fungal Biofertilizers for Sustainable Agricultural Productivity -- Role of Algae-Fungi relationship in Sustainable Agriculture -- Fungi as a Biological Tool for Sustainable Agriculture -- Agriculturally Important Fungi for Crop Productivity: Current Research and Future Challenges.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Nano-Biofortification: Finding an Alternative Approach -- 2. Soil ecosystem services and environmental health -- 3. Malnutrition and human health -- 4. Nano-Biofortification: an environmental health overview -- 5. Phytomedicine and medicinal plants -- 6. Role of phytomedicines and medicinal plants in bacterial and viral diseases -- 7. Plant-based diets and cardiovascular health -- 8. Nano-Biofortified crop plants with selenium for human health -- 9. Biofortified crop plants with iodine for human health -- 10. Nano-Biofortified crop plants with copper for human health -- 11. Nano-Biofortified crop plants with zinc for human health -- 12. Nano-Biofortified crop plants with iron for human health -- 13. Plant leaf protein concentrate for human health -- 14. Plant secondary metabolites and human health -- 15. Plant nano-remediation and human health -- 16. Plant nano-nutrition management for human health -- 17. Physiological functions of plant nano-nutrients in human health -- 18. Nanofertilizers in Agriculture -- 19. Biofortification to Improve Micronutrient-Dense Plants -- 20. Nano-Biofortification of vegetables for nutritive values and qualitative traits -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Solve the breeder’s equation using high-throughput crop phenotyping technology -- Experiences of Applying Field-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping for Wheat Breeding -- High-throughput crop phenotyping systems for controlled environments -- Got all the answers! What were the questions? Avoiding the risk of “phenomics” slipping into a technology spree. Subject Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Origins Of World Crops And Livestock -- Evolution Of European Agriculture -- Agriculture In The Americas Before The European Conquest -- Spanish Conquest And Colonization Of The Americas -- Advance Of Spanish Agriculture In Colonial America -- Portugal And The South Atlantic Exchange -- The Two Worlds Become One -- Dispersal Of New World Crops Into The Old World -- Five Hundred Years After The Great Encounter -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical and Ecological Background to the Arable Habitats of Europe (Chris Stoate) -- Part II. Regional Conservation Reviews of arable plant habitats -- Chapter 2. A weed’s eye view of arable habitats (Jonathan Storkey) -- Chapter 3. The status of arable plant habitats in Northwestern Europe (Guillaume Fried) -- Chapter 4. The status of arable plant habitats in Scandinavian countries (Terho Hyvonen) -- Chapter 5. The status of arable plant habitats in Central Europe (Stefan Meyer) -- Chapter 6. The status of arable plant habitats in Eastern Europe (Gyula Pinke) -- Chapter 7. The arable flora of Mediterranean agricultural systems in the Iberian Peninsula: current status, threats and perspectives (Jordi Recasens) -- Chapter 8. The status of arable plant habitats in Greece – the cradle of arable farming in Europe (Stefan Meyer) -- Part III. Research and Surveillance Projects -- Chapter 9. Soil organisms within arable habitats (Felicity Crotty) -- Chapter 10. Agricultural intensification, sustainable farming and the fate of arable bryophytes in Switzerland (Irene Bisang) -- Chapter 11. Invertebrate trends in an arable environment: long-term changes from the Sussex Study in Southern England (Julie Ewald) -- Chapter 12. Ex situ conservation and reintroduction of vulnerable arable plants in Skåne, Sweden (Gabrielle Rosquist) -- Chapter 13. Wild pollinators in arable habitats: trends, threats and opportunities (Mark JF Brown) -- Chapter 14. Designing multifunctional and resilient agricultural landscapes: lessons from long-term monitoring of biodiversity and land use (Sabrina Gaba) -- Part IV. Farmland Bird Case Studies -- Chapter 15. Historic overview and conservation perspectives of the Czech grey partridge (Perdix perdix) population (Miroslav Šálek) -- Chapter 16. Perspectives on the declining ortolan bunting (Emberiza hortulana) population in northern Sweden (Christer Olsson) -- Chapter 17. The impact of land-use change on arable plant habitats and wintering farmland birds on a farm in south-west Wales, UK (Clive Hurford) -- Chapter 18. The conservation of the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) on farmland in southern England (Nick Sotherton) -- Chapter 19. The changing status of steppe-land birds in the Lleida plain of Catalonia (Santi Mañosa) -- Part V. Applications, Considerations and Recommendations -- Chapter 20. Monitoring arable landscapes using free satellite imagery (Alan Brown) -- Chapter 21. The Art of Agri-environment in the UK, an advisor’s perspective (Emily Swann) -- Chapter 22. The future of Europe’s arable wildlife (Phil Wilson).

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Russian Potato Growing History -- Potato Consumption Patterns, Crop Acreage, Bulk Yields, Yielding Capacity and Priority Lines of Innovative Development -- Technologies for Clonal Propagation of Healthy Parent in Vitro Material and in Vitro Microtuber Growth -- Technologies for Growing Minitubers -- Production of Potato Seed: Potato Breeding Using True Seeds -- Selection of Special Protected Territories with Favorable Natural, Climatic and Phytosanitary Conditions -- Basic Agronomical and Protective Techniques Used in Potato Seed Production -- Authenticity and Purity of a Variety -- Potato Bacterioses -- Defects Caused by Physiological Disorders Under Abnormal Conditions -- Quality Standards for Various Potato Seed Categories -- Soil Control of Varieties -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Blast Disease: Historical Importance, Its Distribution, and Host Infectivity Across Cereal Crops -- Recent Advances in Blast Rice Disease -- The Blast-A Major Malady in Neutricereals in Southeast Asia -- Utilizing Host-Plant Resistance to Combat Blast Disease in Rice -- Microconidia: Understanding Its Role in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae -- Finger Millet Blast Pathogen Diversity and Management in Uttarakhand -- Finger Millet Blast (Magnaporthe grisea): Current Scenario and Its Integrated Disease -- Advances in Genetics, Genomics for Management of Blast Diseases in Cereal Crops -- Wheat Blast Management: Prospects and Retrospective -- Scenario of Blast Diseases in the Eastern Region of India -- Chemicals in the Management of Blast Disease of Rice -- Magnaporthe Genome: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- List of Symbols -- Chapter 1. Basic Principles of SAR Polarimetry (C. Lopez-Martinez, and E. Pottier) -- Chapter 2. Forest Applications (K. P. Papathanassiou, S. R. Cloude, M. Pardini, M. J. Quiñones, D. Hoekman, L. Ferro-Famil, D. Goodenough, H. Chen, S. Tebaldini, M. Neumann, L. M. H. Ulander, M. J. Soja) -- Chapter 3. Agriculture and Wetlands Applications (J. M. Lopez Sanchez, J. D. Ballester Berman, F. Vicente Guijalba, S. R. Cloude, H. McNairn, J. Shang, H. Skriver, T. Jagdhuber, I. Hajnsek, E. Pottier, C. Marechal, L. Hubert-Moy, S. Corgne, S. Wdowinski, R. Touzi, G.) -- Chapter 4. Cryosphere Applications (I. Hajnsek, G. Parrella, A. Marino, T. Eltoft, M. Necsoiu, L. Eriksson, and M. Watanabe) -- Chapter 5. Urban Applications (E. Colin-Koeniguer, N. Trouve, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Huang, L. Ferro-Famil, V.D. Navarro Sanchez, J.M. Lopez Sanchez, D. Monells, R. Iglesias, X. Fabregas, J. Mallorqui, A. Aguasca, and C. Lopez Martinez) -- Chapter 6. Ocean Applications (M. Migliaccio, F. Nunziata, A. Marino, C. Brekke, S. Skrunes) -- Appendix A - Test sites and Data Sets.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Chapter 1: Background to the natural landscape and the consequences of the ecosystem conversion -- Chapter 2: Socio-economic and institutional drivers and impacts of land use change -- Chapter 3: Potentials and Strategies of adapted land use as basis for ecological and social-economic sustainable development of the rural landscape -- Chapter 4: Change in Regional Development -- Chapter 5: Summary and outlook -- Acknowledgement.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Climate Change Risk and Adaptation (Makoto Tamura) -- Part 1. Agriculture and Natural Resource Management -- 2. Participatory Climate Change Adaptation Using Watershed Approach: Processes and Lessons from the Philippines (Juan M. Pulhin, Maricel A. Tapia-Villamayor, Josephine E. Garcia, Catherine C. De Luna, Rex Victor O. Cruz, Florencia B. Pulhin, and Mark Anthony M. Ramirez) -- 3. Climate Change Adaptation Practices Towards Sustainable Watershed Management: The case of Abuan Watershed in Ilagan City, Philippines (Orlando F. Balderama) -- 4. Economic Evaluation and Climate Change Adaptation Measures for Rice Production in Vietnam using a Supply and Demand Model: Special Emphasis on the Mekong River Delta region in Vietnam (Yuki Ishikawa-Ishiwata and Jun Furuya) -- 5. Small Coastal Island Ecosystems and Conservation Perspectives within Adaptation Efforts (Dietriech Geoffrey Bengen) -- Part 2. Disater Risk Reduction and Human Resource Development -- 6. Geotechnical Approaches to Disaster risk Reduction in Japan and Vietnam (Kazuya Yasuhara and Satoshi Murakami) -- 7. Climate Change Adaptation in Fisheries Livelihoods Associated with Mangrove Forests in Xuan Thuy National Park, Vietnam: A case study in Giao An Commune, Giao Thuy District, Nam Dinh Province (Thu Nguyen Hoai) -- 8. Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Education in Japan (Aiko Sakurai and Tetsuji Ito) -- 9. The Practice of Education for Disaster Risk Mitigation in Vietnam: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Implementation 2010-2020 (Tong Thi My Thi , Nguyen Thi Hong Duong1, Nguyen The Hung , Tae Yoon Park) -- Part 3. Conclusion -- 10. Sharing Interlocal Adaptation Lessons (Makoto Tamura , Tetsuji Ito) -- Column 1. Southeast Asia Research-based Network on Climate Change Adaptation Science (SARNCCAR) (Tetsuji Ito and Akihiko Kotera) -- Column 2. Variations of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in Hanoi, Vietnam (Tung Duy Do and Kazuyuki Kita) -- Column 3. Mixing Grey and Green Infrastructures for Coastal Adaptation in Vietnam (Makoto Tamura and Oanh Thi Pham) -- Column 4. The Effect of Climate Change and Natural Disasters on Mangrove Forests in Xuan Thuy National Park: Proposed Adaptation Solutions for Mangrove forests (Quang Van Nguyen) -- Column 5. Climate Change and Crop Management in Indonesia (Eri Matsuura and Nobuo Sakagami) -- Column 6. Stakeholder Perception and Empirical Evidence: Oil Palm Biomass Utilization as Climate-Smart Smallholder Practice (Sachnaz Desta Oktarina , Ratnawati Nurkhoiry, Rizki Amalia, Zulfi Prima Sani Nasution) -- Column 7. Water resource assessment and management in Phuket, Thailand (Sukanya Vongtanaboon) -- Column 8. Analysis on Measures for Preventing the Desertification in Inner Mongolia in China (Yulu Ma) -- Column 9. The Power of Dialogical Tools in in Participatory Learning.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Unconventional water resources as a response to global water scarcity and contribution to food, ecosystems, and sustainable development -- Rain enhancement through cloud seeding (Ali Abshaev, Hail Suppression Research Center, Nalchik, Russia) -- Fog water harvesting (Jamila Bargach, Dar Si Hmad Project, Sidi Ifni, Morocco) -- Micro-catchment rainwater harvesting (Theib Oweis, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, ICARDA, Jordan) -- Offshore water (Mark Person, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA) -- Onshore deep groundwater (Mark Person, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA) -- Municipal wastewater (Birguy Lamizana, United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya) -- Agricultural drainage water (J.D. Oster, University of California, Riverside, USA) -- Water transportation through icebergs towing (Nicholas Sloane, Resolve Marine Group, South Africa) -- Ballast water held in tanks and cargo holds of ships (Marlos De Souza, FAO) -- Desalinated water (Nikolay Voutchkov, Desalination Technologies Research Institute, Saline Water Conversion Corporation, SWCC, Jubail, Saudi Arabia) -- Governance, policies, and institutional and human capacity (Renée Martin-Nagle, A Ripple Effect PLC, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, USA) -- Social and environmental tradeoffs (TBC) -- Economics and innovative financing mechanisms in a circular economy (Francesc Hernández-Sancho, University of Valencia, Spain; Edeltraud Guenther, UNU-FLORES) -- Way forward to harness the potential of unconventional water resources.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Agricultural Information Needs and Research Priorities for Remote Sensing in South and Southeast Asian Countries (Krishna Vadrevu, Thuy Le Toan, Shibendu Ray and Chris Justice) -- Part I: International, Regional and National Programs in Agriculture -- Chapter 2. South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative and Agricultural Research Projects (Krishna Vadrevu) -- Chapter 3. The NASA Harvest program on Agriculture and Food Security (Inbal Becker-Reshef, Varaprasad Bandaru, Brian Barker,Sylvain Coutu, Jillian M Deines, Bradley Doorn, Gary Eilerts, Belen Franch, Antonio Sanchez Galvez, Mehdi Hosseini1, Michael Humber, Greg Husak, Kaiyu Guan, Christina Justice, John Keniston, Hannah Kerner, Mary Mitkish, Kara Mobley, Blake Munshell, Catherine Nakalembe, Estefania Puricelli, Ritvik Sahajpal, Sergii Skakun, Eric Vermote, Alyssa Whitcraft, Matthew Hansen, Bill Salas, and Christopher Justice) -- Chapter 4. Asia-RiCE: Collaborative framework for Rice Crop Management in Asia (Shinichi Sobue, and Lal Samarakoon, Matthew Steventon, Kei Oyoshi, Thuy Le Toan) -- Chapter 5. Rice Growth Outlook using Satellite-Based Information in Southeast Asia (Kei Oyoshi, Shinichi Sobue, and Shoji Kimura) -- Chapter 6. RIICE – The service and its operational use (Francesco Holecz, Tri Setiyono, Massimo Barbieri, Francesco Collivignarelli, Luca Gatti, Michael Anthony, Renaud Mathieu, Emma Quicho, Aileen Maunahan, Sushree Satapathy, Deiveegan Murugesan, Ponnurangam Ganesan, Alice Laborte, Mary Rose Mabalay, Jovino de Dios, Eduardo Jimmy Quilang, Men Sothy, Pich Rothana, Vang Seng, Ngin Chhay, Chharom Chin, Phuong Do Minh, Hung Bui Vang, Vo Quoc Tuan, Tuong Chi Quang, Vo Quang Minh, Ninh Nguyen Hong, Sellaperumal Pazhanivela, Bernard Zaugg) -- Chapter 7. The Philippine Rice Information System (PRiSM): An operational monitoring and information system on rice (Mary Rose Mabalay, Jeny Raviz, Elmer Alosnos, Massimo Barbieri, Emma Quicho, Jesiree Elena Ann Bibar, Mabel Barroga, Meriam Coñado, Pristine Mabalot, Jean Rochielle Mirandilla, Arturo Arocena, Juanito Maloom, Gerald Bello, Ederlina Cariño, Gina de Mesa, Norlyn Detoito, Harvey Gonzaga, Nonilon Martin, Mitzi Philline Tejada, Mary Jane Vives, Marjie Lastimoso, Darlynne Kaye Bumagat, Henry Cayaban, Michael Barroga, Ruvicyn Bayot, Abel Melquiades Callejo, Neale Marvin Paguirigan, Mary Anne Gutierrez, Gene Christhopher Romuga, Frances Grace Amanquiton, Janica Gan, Ethel Princess Banasihan, Creigton Czar Guevarra, Arnel Rala, Hilario Yonson, Michael Malonzo, Glorie Belle Berja, Consolacion Diaz, Luis Alejandre Tamani, Ronald Gregory Roces, Sonia Asilo, Jovino de Dios, Tri Deri Setiyono, Francesco Holecz, Eduardo Jimmy Quilang, and Alice Laborte) -- Chapter 8. An Initiation of National Institute for Precision Agriculture Research Network: A case of Thailand Research Fund and Thailand Science Research and Innovation (Attachai Jintrawet, Prapaporn Khopaibool, Thongchai Suwansichon) -- Part II: Crop Mapping, Monitoring, Yield and Water Resources -- Chapter 9. Varietal Discrimination, Acreage Estimation and Yield Prediction of Basmati Aromatic Rice in North-Western India Using Satellite Data (Dharmesh Verma, A. N. Singh, Manik H. Kalubarme, G.P. Saroha, Ritesh Sharma and Brajendra) -- Chapter 10. Mapping Smallholder Yields Using Planet and Sentinel-2 Satellite Data (Meha Jain, Weiqi Zhou, Ambica Paliwal) -- Chapter 11. A Data-analytical way of estimating Rice crop Yield: Economic and Water related causative factors (Nilabja Ghosh, M. Rajeshwor, Alka Singh, Satarupa Chakravarty) -- Chapter 12. Rice Monitoring in Southeast Asia Using Earth Observation Satellite Data (Kei Oyoshi, Lal Samarakoon, Shin-chi Sobue, Sotheavy Meas, Men Sothy, Shoji Kimura, Rizatus Shofiyati, Tanita Suepa, Kanjana Koedkurang, Yootthapoom Potiracha6,, Sutinee Sihirunwong, Patiwet Chalearmpong, Panu Nuangjumnong, Damrongrit Niammuad, and Soravis Supavetch, Phung Hoang-Phi,Nguyen Lam-Dao,and Thuy Le Toan) -- Chapter 13. Crop LAI and biomass estimation from different polarization modes of simulated NISAR data (Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao) -- Chapter 14. Pixel-based evaluation of rice production and related greenhouse gas emissions in the Mekong Delta integrating SAR data and ground observations (Hironori Arai, Wataru Takeuchi, Kei Oyoshi, Lam Dao Nguyen, Tamon Fumoto, Kazuyuki Inubushi and Thuy Le Toan) -- Chapter 15. The utilization of satellite data to support wet season rice production policy in Thailand: A review of practices and opportunities (Chitnucha Buddhaboon, Panu Neungchumnong, Thewin Kaeomuangmoon and Attachai Jintrawet) -- Chapter 16. Productivity, damages, and losses of rice in Cambodia: past, present and future trends in the Mekong and Tonle Sap regions (Serey Sok, Hoeurn Cheb, Nyda Chhinh and Pheakdey Nguonphan) -- Chapter 17. Rice growth stage monitoring and yield estimation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta using multi-temporal Sentinel-1 data (Phung Hoang-Phi, Nguyen Lam-Dao, Vu Nguyen-Van-Anh, Thanh Nguyen-Kim, Thuy Le Toan, and Tien Pham-Duy) -- Chapter 18. Agricultural Drought Assessment using Remote Sensing, with special emphasis on India (S. S. Ray, Shalini Saxena, K. Choudhary, Preeti Tahlani and Krishna Vadrevu) -- Chapter 19. Role of remote sensing in assessing total water storage and evapotranspiration for croplands in the Mekong river basin (Venkataramana Sridhar, Syed Azhar Ali) -- Part III: Prediction and Modeling -- Chapter 20. Random forests for early rice yield prediction from time series of remote sensed data (Nguyen-Thanh Son, Chi-Farn Chen, Cheng-Cru Chen) -- Chapter 21. Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Rice production over South and Southeast Asia under CMIP6 climate scenarios (Tzu-Shun Lin and Atul K Jain) -- Chapter 22. Application of Geo-CropSim framework for Rainfed Sugarcane Yield Assessment in Thailand (Varaprasad Bandaru, Pallavi Cherumalli, Sergii Skakun, Kristofer Lasko, Sukunya Yampracha) -- Chapter 23. Crop yield assessment of smallholder farms using remote sensing and simulation modeling (Vinay Kumar Sehgal, Debasish Chakraborty, Rajkumar Dhakar, Joydeep Mukherjee, Rabi Narayan Sahoo) -- Part IV: Agricultural Land Cover/Land Use Changes -- Chapter 24. Agricultural intensity assessment in Punjab India using food security metrics and remote sensing data (Krishna Vadrevu, Emily Casadaban, Aditya Eaturu, Samuel Amborski and Sumalika Biswas) -- Chapter 25. Agricultural intensity assessment in Punjab India using food security metrics and remote sensing data (Bhavani P, Ripan Das, Mariam Jamilah, Vijay P.Kanawade, Chandrashekhar Biradar and P.S. Roy) -- Chapter 26. Nexus of Urbanization and Changes in Agricultural Land in Bangladesh (Mst. Ilme Faridatul, Md. Sarfaraz Gani Adnan and Ashraf Dewan) -- Chapter 27. The Kandyan Home Garden – Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystem in Sri Lanka (A.R. Gunawardena and T.T. Fernando) -- Chapter 28. Agricultural transformation, and deforestation in Shan State, Myanmar (Sumalika Biswas and Krishna Prasad Vadrevu) -- Chapter 29. Agricultural fires in South Asian Countries and Implications (Krishna Vadrevu, Emily Casadaban, Aditya Eaturu and Sumalika Biswas) -- Chapter 30. Agricultural Land-Use Trends in Vietnam 1990 – 2020 (Stephen J. Leisz, Nghiem Thi Tuyen, Ngo The An, Nong Duong, Nguyen Thi Bich Yen) -- Chapter 31. Scenario-Based Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Modeling of Future Agricultural Land Conversion in Dong Thap, Vietnam (Keelin Haynes, Jessica L. McCarty, Stanley W. Toops, Bui Thi Minh Ha, Jarrod W. Brown, Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova, Quyen Nguyen, Peou Touch, and Justin J. Fain) -- Chapter 32. Extreme Development of Dragon Fruit Agriculture with Nighttime Lighting in Southern Vietnam (Shenyue Jia, Son V. Nghiem, Seung-Hee Kim, Laura Krauser, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forest R. Stevens, Menas Kafatos, and Khanh D. Ngo) -- Chapter 33. Agricultural Land Use/Cover Changes in the Vientiane, Laos (Chittana Phompila, Vongphet Sihapanya, Bakham Chanthavong, Sithong Thongmanivong, Phung Van Khoa, Keigo Noda and Krishna Prasad Vadrevu) -- Chapter 34. Color Features Based Model for Land Cover Identification and Agriculture Monitoring with Satellite Images (Shruti Gupta and Dharmendra Singh) -- Index.