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Agriscience : fundamentals and applications / L. DeVere Burton.

By: Burton, L. D [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stamford, CT, USA : Cengage Learning, [2015]Edition: 6th edDescription: xxi, 859 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781133686880; 1133686885Subject(s): AgricultureDDC classification: 630 LOC classification: S495 | .B95 2015Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Sec. 1. Agriscience in the information age -- The science of living things -- Betting living through agriscience -- Biotechnology -- Sec. 2. You and the new millennium -- Career options in agriscience -- Supervised agricultural experience -- Leadership development in agriscience -- Sec. 3. Natural resources management -- Maintaining air quality -- Water and soil conservation -- Soils and hydroponics management -- Forest management -- Wildlife management -- Aquaculture -- Sec. 4. Integrated pest management -- Biological, cultural, and chemical control -- Safe use of pesticides -- Sec. 5. The quest for more and better plants! -- Plant structures and taxonomy -- Plant physiology -- Plant reproduction -- Sec. 6. Crop science -- Home gardening -- Vegetable production -- Fruit and nut production -- Grain, oil, and specialty field-crop production -- Forage and pasture management -- Sec. 7. Ornamental use of plants -- Indoor plants -- Turfgrass use and management -- Trees and shrubs -- Sec. 8. Animal sciences -- Animal anatomy, physiology, and nutrition -- Animal health -- Genetics, breeding, and reproduction -- Small animal care and management -- Dairy and livestock management -- Horse management -- Sec. 9. Wave of the future -- The food industry -- Food science.
Summary: Agriscience Fundamentals and Applications, 5th edition provides a broad-spectrum overview of the agricultural industry and the industry-based sciences, including basic principles of science as they apply to plants, animals, soils and foods, for high school students. -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Includes index.

Sec. 1. Agriscience in the information age -- The science of living things -- Betting living through agriscience -- Biotechnology -- Sec. 2. You and the new millennium -- Career options in agriscience -- Supervised agricultural experience -- Leadership development in agriscience -- Sec. 3. Natural resources management -- Maintaining air quality -- Water and soil conservation -- Soils and hydroponics management -- Forest management -- Wildlife management -- Aquaculture -- Sec. 4. Integrated pest management -- Biological, cultural, and chemical control -- Safe use of pesticides -- Sec. 5. The quest for more and better plants! -- Plant structures and taxonomy -- Plant physiology -- Plant reproduction -- Sec. 6. Crop science -- Home gardening -- Vegetable production -- Fruit and nut production -- Grain, oil, and specialty field-crop production -- Forage and pasture management -- Sec. 7. Ornamental use of plants -- Indoor plants -- Turfgrass use and management -- Trees and shrubs -- Sec. 8. Animal sciences -- Animal anatomy, physiology, and nutrition -- Animal health -- Genetics, breeding, and reproduction -- Small animal care and management -- Dairy and livestock management -- Horse management -- Sec. 9. Wave of the future -- The food industry -- Food science.

Agriscience Fundamentals and Applications, 5th edition provides a broad-spectrum overview of the agricultural industry and the industry-based sciences, including basic principles of science as they apply to plants, animals, soils and foods, for high school students. -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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