Six chemicals that changed agriculture / / Robert L. Zimdahl
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Zimdahl Robert L.
|
| Titolo: |
Six chemicals that changed agriculture / / Robert L. Zimdahl
|
| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : Academic Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 630.24 |
| Soggetto topico: | Agricultural chemicals |
| Lime | |
| Nitrogen fertilizers | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- The characteristics of modern agriculture enabled by chemicals -- Lime : A soil amendment -- Nitrogen -- Phosphorus -- 2, 4-D : An herbicide -- DDT : An insecticide -- Recombinant DNA -- Antibiotics -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture is a scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest management, antibiotics to DNA, chemicals have transformed the way our food is grown, protected, and processed. Agriculture is the world's most important environment interaction, the essential human activity, and an increasingly controversial activity because of its use and presumed misuse of chemistry. The major characteristics of US agriculture for at least the last six decades have been risi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Six chemicals that changed agriculture |
| ISBN: | 0-12-800617-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827739803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |