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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 15 Eric Lichtfouse E ditor Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 15 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 15 Series Editor Eric Lichtfouse Other Publications by Dr. Eric Lichtfouse Books Scientifi c Writing for Impact Factor Journals Nova Publishers 2013 Sustainable Agriculture Springer 2009 Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2 Springer 2011 Environmental Chemistry. Green Chemistry and Pollutants in Ecosystems Springer 2005 Rédiger pour être publié ! Conseils pratiques pour les scientifi ques Springer 2012, 2e édition. Journals and Series Agronomy for Sustainable Development www.springer.com/journal/13593 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews www.springer.com/series/8380 Environmental Chemistry Letters www.springer.com/journal/10311 Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World www.springer.com/series/11480 More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8380 Eric Lichtfouse Editor Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 15 Editor Eric Lichtfouse INRA, UMR1347 Agroécologie Dijon , France ISSN 2210-4410 ISSN 2210-4429 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-09131-0 ISBN 978-3-319-09132-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09132-7 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014942694 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 T his work is subject to copyright. 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Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Seed Legislation in Europe and Crop Genetic Diversity ............................. 1 Tone Winge Postharvest Management of Fruits and Vegetables Storage ....................... 65 Hassan R. El-Ramady , Éva Domokos-Szabolcsy , Neama A. Abdalla , H ussein S. Taha , and Miklόs Fári Herbicides: History, Classification and Genetic Manipulation of Plants for Herbicide Resistance ................................................................. 153 Sharad Vats Nitrogen-Fixing Plant-Microbe Symbioses ................................................... 193 M. Harun-or Rashid , Martin Krehenbrink , and Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar Factors Influencing Farm Profitability ......................................................... 235 Yeong Sheng Tey and Mark Brindal Soil Fertility and Crop Productivity in African Sustainable Agriculture ................................................................ 257 Alfred Oghode Misaiti Okorogbona and Patrick Olusanmi Adebola Drought Stress Tolerant Horse Gram for Sustainable Agriculture ............ 293 Jyoti Bhardwaj and Sudesh Kumar Yadav Essential Oils for Pest Control in Agroecology ............................................. 3 29 Bhawana Srivastava , Anand Sagar , Nawal Kishore Dubey , and Lipika Sharma v vi Contents Organic Potato Farming Adoption in Iran ................................................... 353 Seyed Alireza Ghadimi , Hossien Shabanali Fami , and Ali Asadi Crop Plant Hormones and Environmental Stress ........................................ 371 Shah Fahad , Lixiao Nie , Yutiao Chen , Chao Wu , Dongliang Xiong , Shah Saud , Liu Hongyan , Kehui Cui , and Jianliang Huang Index ................................................................................................................. 401 Contributors Neama A. Abdalla Plant Biotechnology Department, Genetic Engineering Division , National Research Center , Dokki, Cairo , Egypt Patrick Olusanmi Adebola Plant Breeding Division , Agricultural Research Council (ARC)–Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute (VOPI) , Pretoria , South Africa Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences , Jimma University , Jimma , Ethiopia Ali Asadi Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Development, University of Tehran, Agricultural and Natural Resources Campus , Tehran , Iran Jyoti Bhardwaj Plant Metabolic Engineering Laboratory, Biotechnology Division , CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Council of Scientifi c and Industrial Research , Palampur , HP, India Mark Brindal School of Agriculture, Food and Wine , The University of Adelaide , Adelaide , Australia Yutiao Chen N ational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Kehui Cui National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Éva Domokos-Szabolcsy Plant Biotechnology Department , Debrecen University , Debrecen , Hungary Nawal Kishore Dubey Laboratory of Herbal Pesticide, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi , India vii viii Contributors Hassan R. El-Ramady Soil and Water Sciences Department, Faculty of Agriculture , Kafrelsheikh University , Kafr El-Sheikh , Egypt Plant Biotechnology Department , Debrecen University , Debrecen , Hungary Shah Fahad National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Hossien Shabanali Fami F aculty of Agricultural Economics and Development, University of Tehran , Tehran , Iran Miklós Fári Plant Biotechnology Department , Debrecen University , Debrecen , Hungary Seyed Alireza Ghadimi Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Development , University of Tehran , Tehran , Iran Liu Hongyan N ational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Jianliang Huang National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Martin Krehenbrink Cysal GmbH , Munster , Germany Eric Lichtfouse INRA, UMR1347 Agroécologie , Dijon , France Lixiao Nie N ational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Alfred Oghode Misaiti Okorogbona Plant Breeding Division , Agricultural Research Council (ARC)-Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute (VOPI) , Pretoria , South Africa M. Harun-or Rashid Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) , Mymensingh , Bangladesh Anand S agar Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Bio- Sciences , Himachal Pradesh University , Shimla , India Shah Saud Department of Horticultural , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , China Contributors ix Lipika Sharma G.B. Pant Institute for Himalayan Environment and Development Himachal Unit , Mohal-Kullu , India Bhawana Srivastava Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Bio-Sciences , Himachal Pradesh University , Shimla , India Hussein S. Taha Plant Biotechnology Department, Genetic Engineering Division , National Research Center , Dokki, Cairo , Egypt Yeong Sheng Tey Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies , Universiti Putra Malaysia , Serdang , Selangor , Malaysia Sharad Vats Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology , Banasthali University , Rajasthan , India Tone Winge The Fridtjof Nansen Institute , Lysaker , Norway Chao Wu National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Dongliang Xiong National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Crop Physiology and Production Center, College of Plant Science and Technology , Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan , Hubei , China Sudesh Kumar Yadav Plant Metabolic Engineering Laboratory, Biotechnology Division, C SIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Council of Scientifi c and Industrial Research , Palampur , HP, India
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