CAB Abstracts

• Policy formation
• Development programmes
• The economics of the food industry
• Natural resources utilization
• Farm management
• Aspects of education and research
• Rural sociology
   

• Breeding and genetics of animals of economic importance
• Animal production
• Animal nutrition
• Animal biotechnology
• Aquaculture
• Dairy science and technology 
   

• All aspects of veterinary medicine
• Animal welfare and behaviour
• Zoonoses
• Food safety (of meat and milk, including meat inspection)

• Production and processing of energy crops into biodiesel or fuel ethanol
• Energy forestry
• Biogas production from livestock wastes and agricultural residues
• Fermentation technology
• Energy policy
• Economics and landuse issues
   

• Environmental impact and food safety issues
• Regulations, treaties and trade
• Issues related to Agricultural chemicals and laboratory techniques 
• Detection and prevention of bioterrorism
• Pathogens affecting humans and agricultural organisms

• Methodology
• Studies of agriculturally useful traits
• Applications of biotechnology for traditional animal and plant breeding
• Economic, planning and policy aspects
• Biosafety
• GM food, legal and social issues

• Use of genetic resources in breeding
• Breeders’ rights
• Reproduction
• Evolution and domestication

• Pesticides
• Adjuvants
• Botanical pesticides
• Biochemistry of pest organisms
• Biocontrol
• Farmed animals and plants
• Biofuels
• Chemistry of soils, fertilizers, freshwater and waste water
• Nutritional biochemistry

• Crop production, pests and diseases
• Animal health and production
• Human health
• Agro-economic aspects such as rural development and demography
• Tourism
• The production and processing of bio-fuels
• Microbiology fermentation
• Energy co-generation in the sugar industry

• Genetics and breeding
• Taxonomy
• Botany
• Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Propagation
• Production
• Management and storage
• Grassland and rangeland ecology, management and sustainability

• Sustainable tourism development
• Tourism for development and poverty alleviation in developing countries
• Environmental management systems
• Environmental impact of tourism and tourist facilities
• Nature conservation
• Resource use
   

• Taxonomy
• Genetics
• Behaviour
• Morphology
• Physiology
• Control of insects and other arthropods of medical, veterinary or agricultural importance
   

• Environment
• Biodiversity and ecology, including soil science, water resources, organic farming, forestry and integrated crop management
• Environmental pollution and remediation
• Issues relating to the conservation of land, forest and soils
• Biological and genetic resources
• Climate change effects
• Nature conservation
   

• Silviculture and forest management
• Tree biology
• Forest ecology
• Agroforestry
• Logging
• Wood anatomy
• Wood technology
• International trade of timber and non-wood forest products
   

• Molecular genetics
• Cytogenetics
• Population genetics
• Genomics
• Nutrigenomics
• Prevalence of genetic risk factors and susceptibility genes in humans

• Genetics
• Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Ecology
• Pathology
• Immunobiology
• Epidemiology and transmission
• Life cycle
• Vectors
• Treatment and control and scientific techniques

• Genetic resources
• Breeding
• Biology
• Propagation
• Pests, diseases
• Crop management
• Growth models
• Environmental physiology
• Postharvest treatment
• Crop quality
• Marketing and economics of horticultural crops

• Physiology and biochemistry of all nutrients
• Analytical methodologies
• Public health nutrition
• Sports nutrition
• Nutrition education
• Dietary surveys
• Reproduction and diet
• Human growth
• Infant feeding
• Ageing
• Nutritional status
• Clinical nutrition
   

• Crops
• Forest trees
• Stored agricultural products
• Timbers
• Grasslands
• Soils
• Water supplies
• Human health
   

• Botany
• Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Propagation and cultivation of medicinal plants
• Pharmacological papers on plant constituents and herbal drugs

• Veterinary microbiology
• Plant pathogens
• Mycorrhizas
• Soil microbiology
• Forest microbiology
• Food microbiology
• Microbiology related to water pollution
• Toxinogenic fungi
• Mycotoxins and other toxins
• Animal vaccines
• Microrganisms of veterinary and cultural importance including their:
  • Taxonomy
  • Ecology
  • Biochemistry
  • Genetics
     

• Molecular genetics
• Physiology
• Biochemistry and systematics
• All aspects of mycoses in both humans and animals including:
  • Pathology
  • Epidemiology
  • Immunology
  • Diagnosis
  • Therapy

• Fertilizers
• Earth sciences
• Environmental pollution
• Remediation aspects
• Water resources and their management in terms of agriculture
• Water supply in relation to factors such as climate change
• Issues relating to the conservation of :
  • Land
  • Forest
  • Soil
  • Biological and genetic resources
  • Nature and Habitat
     

• Plant nematode diseases
• Other nematodes and hosts
• Biology
• Ecology
• Control
• Nematicides
• Nematodes as genetic models
• Techniques
• Equipment and machinery
• Economics
• Extension
• Education
   

• Soil fertility management
• Composting
• Pest control
• Organic methods of animal healthcare
• Low input and traditional farming systems
• Environmental impacts of farming and organic foods
   

• Diseases of all crops
• Forest trees
• Weeds and wild plants
• Pathogen biology
• Mycotoxins
• Plant disease control
• Fungicides
• Techniques, equipment and economics

• Chemical control (all aspects of pesticides)
• Biological control
• Cultural and physical control
• Integrated pest management
• Pest/disease resistance
• Pest surveys
• Quarantine control equipment
• All organisms that harm crops, stored products, forest trees and timber

• Taxonomy
• Morphology
• Molecular genetics
• Physiology
• Host relationships,
• Clinical aspects of protozoal infections of medical and veterinary importance including immunobiology, treatment and control of the diseases and their vectors.

• Classification and formation
• Soil conservation
• Irrigation and drainage
• Fertilizer technology
   

• Veterinary pharmacology
• Surgery
• Diagnosis
• Immunology
• Veterinary public health

• Phage and fungal viruses related to animal and plants
• Pathogens Viruses of agricultural and forestry species
• Animal viruses and viral infections of veterinary interest
• Insect viruses where there is potential for biological control and plant viruses carried by insects.

• Biological, chemical and physical treatment of water and agricultural wastes
• The use (including genetic manipulation of) microorganisms for the breakdown of specific compounds
• Reclamation and bioremediation of polluted lands, soil and freshwater pollution from natural and manmade sources

Related products

Related books

Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species by J Hancock July 2012 Hardback / 9781845938017 / £85.00 / $160.00 / €110.00

Managing Outdoor Recreation by L Anderson, R Manning August 2012 Hardback / 9781845939311 / £75.00 / $145.00 / €100.00

Soil Ecology and Management by L Sampedro, J Whalen December 2009 Paperback / 9781845935634 / £37.50 / $70.00 / €50.00

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