Biotechnology in Agriculture

An instructive and comprehensive overview of the use of biotechnology in agriculture and food production, Biotechnology in Agriculture and Food Processing: Opportunities and Challenges discusses how biotechnology can improve the quality and productivity of agriculture and food products.

An instructive and comprehensive overview of the use of biotechnology in agriculture and food production, Biotechnology in Agriculture and Food Processing: Opportunities and Challenges discusses how biotechnology can improve the quality and productivity of agriculture and food products.

This book is a comprehensive reference work on our current knowledge of the biotechnology of all the major temperate, sub-tropical and tropical fruit and nut crops of the world. It is in part a new edition of Biotechnology of Perennial Fruit Crops (eds Hammerschlag and Litz, CABI, 1992), but differs from the previous book by covering more fruit crops as well as nuts, and also omitting general methods chapters. Contributors are leading researchers from the Americas, Europe, Australasia and Africa.

This book examines research in the field of biotechnology, as well as very important problems for ecology in the big cities. The book also places special emphasis on certain problems such as the influence of humous components in the soil on the reaction kinetics of remediation, heavy metal analysis of soil based on fuzzy logic system, and bio-resistant building composites on the basis of glass wastes.

For a number of years, biotechnology has held out the prospect for major advances in agricultural production, but only recently have the results of this new revolution started to reach application in the field. The potential for further rapid developments is however immense.

It is our pleasure to present the 53rd volume of the Biotechnology in Agric- ture and Forestry (BAF) series.