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  • Nursery Practices in Oil Palm

    A Manual

    by Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Peter D. S. Caligari, Nur D Laksono, Umi Setiawati, Fazrin Nur, Miranti Rahmaningsih, Yassier Anwar, Heru Rusfiandi, Eben Haeser Sembiring, Avasarala Sreenivasa Subbarao0, Hafni Zahara1 ...
    Series Book 19 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a hands-on, practical guide to general and specific practices in oil palm nurseries to produce healthy, vigorous and uniform plants ready for field planting. There are two nursery stages, pre-nursery and main nursery. The pre-nursery receives both germinated seeds and tissue culture produced plantlets (ramets) which are planted in a relatively small area in which shade and humidity can be ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Crossing in Oil Palm

    A Manual

    by Umi Setiawati, Baihaqi Sitepu, Fazrin Nur, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Sylvester Dery, Peter D. S. Caligari ...
    Series Book 2 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    Oil palm is the world's most important oil crop and crossing is used extensively in the production of commercial seed, breeding and genetic studies. This book illustrates crossing techniques to maximise success and safeguard purity, enabling the production of high quality seeds to grow-on as planting material and in breeding superior cultivars. Presenting sound practices based on scientific ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Seed Production in Oil Palm

    A Manual

    by Eddy S Kelanaputra, Umi Setiawati, Baihaqi Sitepu, Fazrin Nur, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Abdul R. Purba, Peter D. S. Caligari, Stephen P. C. Nelson ...
    Series Book 1 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a practical guide to seed germination in oil palm for both breeding and genetic studies as well as commercial seed production. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and this manual provides step-by-step illustrated methods, written by practitioners actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding. Presenting sound practices based on scientific innovation and knowledge, this ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Mutation Breeding in Oil Palm

    A Manual

    by Fazrin Nur, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Samual A. Osei, Samuel Amiteye, Jennifer Ciomas, Soeranto Hoeman, Ljupcho Jankuloski, Peter D. S. Caligari ...
    Series Book 5 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a practical guide to mutation breeding in oil palm, representing completely novel work supported by the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division (Vienna, Austria). Oil palm is the top oil crop and the only major crop and only oil crop not to have been improved by plant mutation breeding. The manual is hands-on, providing step-by-step illustrated methods in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Nursery Screening for Ganoderma Response in Oil Palm Seedlings

    A Manual

    by Miranti Rahmaningsih, Ike Virdiana, Syamsul Bahri, Yassier Anwar, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Frédéric Breton, Peter D. S. Caligari ...
    Series Book 3 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and Ganoderma is the most devastating disease of oil palm. The authors are all actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding and bring together the many aspects of seedling disease testing in to one integrated ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Field Trials in Oil Palm Breeding

    A Manual

    by Baihaqi Sitepu, Nur D Laksono, Umi Setiawati, Fazrin Nur, Miranti Rahmaningsih, Yassier Anwar, Pujo Widodo, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Abdul R. Purba, Peter D. S. Caligari0 ...
    Series Book 12 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe field trials in oil palm breeding. Such trials are essential in almost all breeding programmes to select and verify the real expression of different target traits. In oil palm these include yield, tolerance to pests and diseases, oil quality and adaptability to the environment. Breeding success is dependent upon the genetic resources available and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Trichoderma: Ganoderma Disease Control in Oil Palm

    A Manual

    by Ike Virdiana, Miranti Rahmaningsih, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Julie Flood, Peter D. S. Caligari, Monika Schmoll ...
    Series Book 20 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a hands-on practical guide to the use of Trichoderma as a biocontrol, as part of sustainable disease control measures for Ganoderma disease in oil palm plantations. The manual provides background information on Ganoderma (basal stem rot), the most devastating disease of oil palm in Southeast Asia, as well as on the benefits of Trichoderma fungi in safe guarding yields. The disease is ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Bunch and Oil Analysis of Oil Palm

    A Manual

    by Pujo Widodo, Fazrin Nur, Evi Nafisah, Brian Forster, Brian Forster, Hasrul Abdi Hasibuan, Peter D. S. Caligari ...
    Series Book 9 - Techniques in Plantation Science
    This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe physical bunch and oil analysis of oil palm. Bunch and oil analysis laboratories are set up at oil mills to assess production, yield potential of plantations and oil extraction rates relative to targets. The higher the oil yields produced by the planting material, the less land that is needed to achieve a specific level of production, hence helping ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Microbiology

    (OpenStax Audio Textbook)

    by Nina Parker, Mark Schneegurt, Anh-Hue Thi Tu, Philip Lister, Brian M. Forster ...
    Narrated by AI Voice ...
    Series series OpenStax Audiobooks

    Unabridged

    42 hours 45 min

    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official ⁠OpenStax Microbiology audiobook⁠, produced by ⁠Audileo⁠, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner.Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health. The pedagogical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Protocols for Pre-Field Screening of Mutants for Salt Tolerance in Rice, Wheat and Barley

    by Souleymane Bado, Brian P. Forster, Abdelbagi Ghanim, Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Berthold Günter, Liu Luxiang ...
    This book offers effective, low-cost and user-friendly protocols for the pre-field selection of salt-tolerant mutants in cereal crops. It presents simple methods for measuring soil salinity, including soil sampling and the analysis of water-soluble salts, and describes a detailed, but simple, screening test for salt tolerance in rice, wheat and barley seedlings, which uses hydroponics. The ... Read more

    Free

  • Pre-Field Screening Protocols for Heat-Tolerant Mutants in Rice

    by Fatma Sarsu, Abdelbagi M.A. Ghanim, Priyanka Das, Rajeev N. Bahuguna, Paul Mbogo Kusolwa, Muhammed Ashraf, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek, Ashwani Pareek, Brian P. Forster, Ivan Ingelbrecht ...
    This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering stages – with screening based on simple phenotypic responses. The protocols are based on the use of a hydroponics system and/or ... Read more

    Free

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