cam a22 7 4500 528945017 CHVBK 20201014122632.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 150327t20152015ne a fsb 001 0 eng d 2015937300 978-0-12-800561-3 (hbk.) 0-12-800561-0 (hbk.) 978-0-12-800617-7 (electronic bk.) 0-12-800617-X (electronic bk.) (SERSOL)ssj0001573477 (WaSeSS)ssj0001573477 YDXCP eng YDXCP OCLCQ BTCTA CDX OCLCO OCLCF LTSCA MNG WVU OSU WURST MYG BDX DLC WaSeSS rda S585 .Z56 2015 631.8 23 Zimdahl Robert L. author Six chemicals that changed agriculture Robert L. Zimdahl, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Amsterdam Boston Elsevier/Academic Press [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (xi, 197 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. 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 rising productivity, declining number of mid-size farms, increasing farm size, an increasing percentage of farm production on fewer, large farms, increasing dependence of chemical technology and more developmental research being done by the agricultural chemical industry rather than by independent land-grant universities. Another equally important feature of modern agriculture is wide-spread suspicion of its technology by the public. The book will recount examples of this suspicion related to specific chemicals and present the essence of the suspicion and its results.-- Agricultural chemicals Lime Nitrogen fertilizers Phosphatic fertilizers Herbicides Insecticides Recombinant DNA Antibiotics Agricultural chemicals (OCoLC)fst00800518 fast Antibiotics (OCoLC)fst00810420 fast Herbicides (OCoLC)fst00955333 fast Insecticides (OCoLC)fst00974052 fast Lime (OCoLC)fst00998827 fast Nitrogen fertilizers (OCoLC)fst01038084 fast Phosphatic fertilizers (OCoLC)fst01061374 fast Recombinant DNA (OCoLC)fst01091466 fast https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibern/detail.action?docID=2102165 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Ebook Central All Subscribed Titles E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4051809 IDSBB 100 1- Zimdahl Robert L. author IDSBB 856 40 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibern/detail.action?docID=2102165 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 338667725