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Dictionary of Agriculture

by Mehraj ud Din Khanday, Sandeep Kumar, Tahir Ali

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Dictionary of Agriculture” is one of the capsulated and latest updated vocabularies of modern agriculture providing information on most relevant terms, definitions, glossaries, idioms, proverb, meaning, and important techniques. This book presents latest explanation through different view of basic terminology in agronomy, entomology, pathology and horticulture. Authors made the efforts to arrange all the terminologies systematically in easy language so that this book serves as a useful guide to all, teachers, scientist of applied science, progressive cultivators and orchardists. This presentation is equally beneficial to the agribusiness, allied sector and social works engaged in rural development. Student preparing competitive exams viz, UG, PG and Ph.D. entrance conducted by various universities, JRF, SRF, NET and ARS conducted by agriculture service recruitment board. This is a unique and updated version of dictionary, containing more than 17000 illustrations.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Agronomy. 2. Entomology. 3. Horticulture. 4. Soil science.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sandeep Kumar

Sandeep Kumar, PhD, is a tree molecular biologist with a wide range of experience in plant tissue culture, genetic transformation, and tree genomics. He completed his master's and doctorate in India and presently works at the Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding in Grosshansdorf, Germany. He has been working on genetic transformation of forest trees, stable expression of transgenes, gene silencing, mechanisms of transgene integration in a tree system, and transposon/T-DNA based gene tagging in trees. His current research interest include controlled gene transfer into predetermined genomic positions and gene tagging for tree functional genomics.