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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
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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
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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
