Emerging Innovations in Agriculture: From Theory to Practice

Edited by Amitava Rakshit

ISBN: 978-618-5065-84-3, 230 pages

First published in 2015 by ATINER

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Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

Preface		i
About the Author		iii
Emerging Innovations in Agriculture: From Theory to Practice: An Introduction Amitava Rakshit		v
Part I: Concept
1.	An FPGA based Computer System for Greenhouse Control Nonel Thirer and Uchansky Igor	3
2.	Vanilla Protoplasts: Isolation and Electro Fusion Wayner Montero-Carmona and Víctor M. Jiménez	15
3.	Exploration of Genetic Variability of Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Landraces through ISSR Markers Margarita Gisela Peña-Ortega, Juan Enrique Rodríguez-Pérez, Luis Manuel Serrano-Covarrubias and Juan Martínez- Solís	31
4.	Physiological Seed Quality and Fungi Incidence in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Seeds Treated with Microwave Radiation Juan Martínez Solís, Ana M. Nieves Flores and Margarita Gisela Peña Ortega	41
5.	Development of Turf-type Poa pratensis L. Germplasm for Seed Production without Field Burning William J. Johnston, Richard C. Johnson, Charles T. Golob, Mathew C. Nelson, Kathleen L. Dodson, Gwen K. Stahnke and Elizabeth A. Guertal	49
6.	Effect of Sowing Technology on Winter Oilseed Rape Density in Autumn and Plant Overwintering Edward Wilczewski, Grażyna Harasimowicz-Hermann and Grzegorz Lemańczyk	57
7.	Mode of Antifungal Activity of Streptomyces hygroscopicus against Colletotrichum spp. Mila Grahovac, Jovana Grahovac, Jelena Dodić, Ivana Tadijan, Jelica Balaž, Brankica Tanović and Jovana Hrustić	67
8.	Do Consumers Fully Benefit from the Richness of Dietary Contribution to Human Health offered by Tomato Elena Balacheva, Mariana Radkova, Elena Shopova and Nasia Tomlekova	75
9.	Adaptation and Determination of Some Characteristic with Grafted Dwarf M9 Apple Rootstocks onto Some Standart Apple (Malus comminus L.) Cultivars in East Halil İbrahim Oguz, Deniz Erogul and Cüneyt Uyak	83
Part II: Country Experiences
10.	Gypsum emerged as a Potential Amendment in Saline – Sodic Soils of Sangamner Area, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra, India Keshav Deshmukh	95
11.	Agro Energy and Familiar Agriculture in the Brazilian Northeast Semiarid Region Gustavo Bittencourt Machado	109
12.	Some Physicochemical Properties of White Mulberry (Morus alba L.) Genotypes Harvested from Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey Deniz Erogul, Halil İbrahim Oğuz and Fatih Şen	125
13.	Economic Aspects of Milk Production in Organic and Conventional Specialised Dairy Farms in Poland Marcin Żekało	135
14.	Preliminary Results of the Study on Food and Nutrition Safety in the Border Zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua Wilfrido Paniagua Madrigal, Tomas de Jesus Guzman Hernandez, V. Larumbe Galech, R. Rodriguez Quiroz, Freddy Aleman Zeledón, B. Mendieta Araica, Sandra Lovo Jerez, Lilliam de Jesús Lezama Gaitán and R. Larios	145
15.	Comparison between Slow, Programmable Freezing and Fast Freezing Protocol of Hungarian Guinea Fowl Spermatozoa Thieu Ngoc Lan Phuong, Eva Varadi, Barbara Vegi, Krisztina Liptoi and Judit Barna	161
16.	The Local Plant Genetic Resources and their Integration into Family Farms, using" Mixed Orchards "in Border Communities in Costa Rica Carlos Munoz Ruiz, Tomas de Jesus Guzman Hernandez and V. Larumbe Galech	171
17.	Adaptation of Hungarian Guinea Fowl to Tropical Underprivileged Regions of South Vietnam Dong Xuan Kisne Do Thi, Istvan Szalay and Thieu Ngoc Lan Phuong	197
18.	Starch, Proteins and Minerals Content of Papua New Guinea Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Corms Andrej Mergedus, Cyril Atung, Birte Nass-Komolong, Kristl Janja, Anton Ivancic and Vincent Lebot	205