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  • Chocolate Crisis

    Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao

    by Dale Walters ...
    Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. In Chocolate Crisis, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree.Walters takes readers to the origins of the cacao tree in the Amazon basin of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack

    by Dale Walters ...
    Despite the research effort put into controlling pathogens, pests and parasitic plants, crop losses are still a regular feature of agriculture worldwide. This makes it important to manage the crop appropriately in order to maximise yield. Understanding the relationship between the occurrence and severity of attack, and the resulting yield loss, is an important step towards improved crop protection ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Fortress Plant

    How to survive when everything wants to eat you

    by Dale Walters ...
    The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are virtually stationary packages of food, providing sustenance for a vast array of organisms, ranging from bacteria and fungi, through to insects, and even other plants. But plants are master survivors, having coped with changing environments and evolving predators over much of the history of life on earth. They have ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Plant Defense

    Warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores and parasitic plants

    by Dale Walters ...
    Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • The Global Danger Posed by Plant Disease

    The Underestimated Threat

    by Professor Dale Walters ...
    Most people are completely unaware of the threat posed by plant disease. Those who know, often underestimate the potential severity and impact of plant disease, nationally and globally. Although plant pathogens and the diseases they cause have been around for millennia, humans have played a major role in spreading them across the world. From the birth of farming, through to early exploration and ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Mystery Without Rhyme or Reason

    Poetic Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary

    by Michael Coffey ...
    This collection of poetic reflections is a rich resource for a faithful imagination. Michael Coffey's poems explore the deep questions and joyful affirmations of Christian faith. Never settling for easy answers or straight-forward interpretations, Coffey's writing invites the reader into new spiritual territory where the strange and unexpected, the beautiful and painful, become an encounter with ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Induced Resistance for Plant Defense

    A Sustainable Approach to Crop Protection

    Edited by Dale R. Walters, Adrian C. Newton, Gary D. Lyon ...
    Induced resistance offers the prospect of broad spectrum, long-lasting and potentially environmentally-benign disease and pest control in plants. Induced Resistance for Plant Defense 2e provides a comprehensive account of the subject, encompassing the underlying science and methodology, as well as research on application of the phenomenon in practice.The second edition of this important book ... Read more

    $236.99 CAD

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    The ADHD Advantage

    What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength

    by Dale Archer ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    Why ADHD could be the key to your successFor decades physicians delivered the diagnosis of ADHD to patients as bad news and warned them about a lifelong struggle of managing symptoms. But The ADHD Advantage explodes this outlook, showing that some of the most highly successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and entertainers have reached the pinnacle of success not in spite of their ADHD but because of it ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tropical Plant Breeding

    by André Charrier, Michel Jacquot, Serge Hamon, Dominique Nicolas ...
    Important advances in tropical plant breeding achieved by French research teams of Cirad, Inra and Ird, in collaboration with counterpart staff in tropical countries, are reviewed in the present publication. All 24 chapters focus on different plants, and include: in-depth analysis of trait diversity in cultivated forms and links with related wild species; overviews of breeding techniques and ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2

    Genetics, breeding, pests and diseases

    by Enilto de Oliveira Neubert, Luiz Augusto Martins Peruch, Dr Michael Abberton, Badara Gueye, Tchamba Marimagne, Folarin Soyode, Dr Hernán Ceballos, Nelson Morante, Fernando Calle, Jorge Lenis, Dr Virgilio Gavicho Uarrota, Sandra Salazar, Dr Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Ismail Y. Rabbi, Prof. P. Zhang, Q. Ma, M. Naconsie, X. Wu, W. Zhou, J. Yang, Dr Piya Kittipadakul, Deivid L. V. Stefen, Pasajee Kongsil, Chalermpol Phumichai, Shelley H. Jansky, Dr Elizabeth Parkes, Olufemi Aina, Adebayo Abass, Wasiu Awoyale, Lateef Sanni, Taofik Shittu, Dr James P. Legg, Clovis Arruda de Souza, Dr Elizabeth Alvarez, Ignazio Graziosi, Dr Kris A. G. Wyckhuys, Dr Stefan Hauser, Dr Friday Ekeleme, Cileide Maria Medeiros Coelho, Rodolfo Moresco, Marcelo Maraschin, Fernando David Sánchez-Mora, Eduardo da Costa Nunes ...
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    $191.99 CAD

  • Banana Breeding

    Progress and Challenges

    Edited by Michael Pillay, Abdou Tenkouano ...
    With the current world population growth of 1.2%, the earth can expect to house 9-10 billion people by 2050. Food production, too, must increase to accommodate these numbers. Easy growing, high calorie, nutritious foods, such as bananas are the top priority as a solution to this imminent problem. The first comprehensive compendium on bananas in rec ... Read more

    $375.99 CAD