Crop production and global environmental issues. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Khalid Rehman Hakeem, editor.
• Editors: Hakeem, Khalid Rehman
• Contents: Heavy Metal Stress and Crop Productivity -- Effects of Gamma Radiation on Crop Production -- Pesticide Tolerance and Crop Production -- Implication of Rhizosphere Acidification in Nutrient Uptake by Plants: Cases of Potassium (K), Phosphorus (P) and Iron (Fe) -- Effect of Industrial Pollution on Crop Productivity -- Role of Seed Quality in Improving Crop Yields -- Sustaining Cocoa Production on Oxisols in Malaysia -- Plant Mutagenesis and Crop Improvement -- Effect of Climate Change on Horticultural Crops -- Effect of Elevated Levels of Carbon dioxide on the Activity of RuBisCO and Crop Productivity -- Insect Pest Resistance: An Alternative Approach for Crop Protection -- Biofertilizer for Sustainable Rice Production and Reduction of Environmental Pollution -- Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: An Overview -- Use of Alien Diversity to Combat some Major Biotic Stresses in Triticum aestivum L -- Sulfur Nutrition of Oil Palm for Enhancing Oil Yield in Tropics -- Genetic Modification of Crop Plants: Issues and Challenges -- Plant Responses and Tolerance to High Temperature Stress: Role of Exogenous Phytoprotectants -- Agricultural Adaptation and Climate Change Policy for Crop Production in Africa -- Causes and Prevention of Cherry Cracking- A Review -- Climate Change and Plants -- Fertilizers and Environment: Issues and Challenges.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 598 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 630.2/515; Life sciences; Crops and climate; Crops -- Effect of stress on; Agriculture; Plant breeding; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General; Crops and climate; Crops -- Effect of stress on; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; The environment; Plant reproduction & propagation; Technology & Engineering -- Agriculture -- General; Agricultural science; Life Sciences; Agriculture; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319231624; 3319231626
• Related ISBNs: 9783319231617; 3319231618
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 16, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.