This updated 2nd edition, two decades after the publication of the first edition, combines information from the latest scientific research on rodent pests and their control. It includes 19 chapters discussing: the natural history of rodents and preadaptations to pestilence; commensal rodents;...

This publication provides a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to understand production and postharvest systems, environmental adaptation techniques and marketing strategies. Focusing on the principles behind production practices and their scientific basis, rather than...

This chapter deals with three groups of grasses, namely: temperate grasses (Lolium, Festuca, Dactylis, Phleum and Bromus); prairie grasses (Agropyron, Andropogon, Phalaris and Elymus), which are mainly produced for areas with a continental climate of predominantly cold winters followed by hot...

This chapter documents the origins and cultivar types, crop establishment and management, harvesting, roguing, seed production, processing and storage, as well as pathogens and pests of temperate and tropical forage legumes. The clover species suitable for temperate regions include: Trifolium...

This encyclopedia provides a wide range of information (including crop history and origins, world production, uses, taxonomy and nomenclature, morphology, reproductive biology, fruit growth and development, climatic requirements, propagation, cultivation, postharvest systems, cultivars and...

This chapter evaluates the feed sources from temperate and tropical regions for free-range pigs and poultry, the feeding strategies and the role of integrated farming in free-range farming systems.

This chapter reviews aspects of diversity of endophytic fungi: how sampling strategies affect results of diversity studies; how communities of endophytic and epiphytic fungi differ in a single leaf; how endophytic fungi vary from leaf to leaf; how endophytes are transmitted; and how endophytes may...

Methods for the evaluation of tropical and temperate grasses and legumes are discussed with reference to comparisons of species, cultivars and lines. Procedures for the testing and registration of new cultivars are outlined. It is noted that the procedures preceding the development and release of...