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The book is revealing how modern technology has drastically affected our environmentally based, technology enhanced food supply. Exposing myths and presenting extensive, meticulous research on the history of pesticides, pollution, organic agriculture, and much more. It is a very highly recommended, fact-filled primer, which will provide the non-specialist general reader an invaluable instructional background. Arguing that humans are inherently technological ...
Plant diseases are among the important factors that are responsible for causing yeild loss in crop production. The loss due to diseases alone is estimated to be around 26 per cent. Diseases may attack at any stage of the standing crop, from seedlings till maturity of the crop. Diseases in plants are as similar as diseases in animals and human. We cannot see the actual organism responsible for disease but we feel and see the symptoms. Disease can be described as ...
Modern gene sequencing, whether classical or through genetic engineering, comes with issues of concern, particularly with regard to food crops. The question of whether sequencing can have a negative effect on nutritional value in central in this respect. Although relatively little direct research in this area has been done, there are scientific indications that, by favoring certain aspects of a plant's development, other aspects may be retarded. The emphasis may ...
Agronomy today is very different from what it was before about 1950. Intensification of agriculture since the 1960s in developed and developing countries, often referred to as the Green Revolution, was closely tied to progress made in selecting and improving crops and animals for high productivity, as well as to developing additional inputs such as artificial fertilizers and phytosanitary products. Modern agriculture depends heavily on engineering and technology ...
In higher plants the meristem tissues in the root and stem tips, in the buds and in the cambium are areas of active growth. Plants also differ from animals in the internal structure of the cell and in certain details of reproduction. In addition, plants grow continually throughout life and have no maximum size or characteristic form in the adult, as do animals. In these the gametophyte stage is completely reduced, and the sporophyte begins life inside an ...