Biocontrol Systems and Plant Physiology in Modern Agriculture : Processes, Strategies, Innovations

Biocontrol Systems and Plant Physiology in Modern Agriculture: Processes, Strategies, Innovations focuses on new production alternatives that do not include pesticides, herbicides, or chemicals for primary food production and instead rely on biologically controlled systems of production. The book also relates a number of advances and innovations in the use of agricultural technologies that employ the study of the physiology of plants to know their resistance to different environments in modern agriculture. The book presents research offering viable alternatives for the control of pests for safe food production that are environmentally friendly and that facilitate the reduction of production costs and improve the quality and yield of produce. The volume addresses innovative biocontrol systems to reduce or eliminate the use of agrochemicals by controlling plant diseases by minimizing environmental damage through the use of antagonistic organisms. It also presents new strategies of cultivation that maximize production by optimizing light, temperature, humidity, nutrients and humidity in a controlled environment. The diverse topics in the volume include botanical compounds as adjuvants as an alternative to reduce the pesticide use, on-site production of bio-control agents, plant factory systems that offer controlled safe environments for plant cultivation, promising bio-nematicides for sustainable agriculture, wastewater reclamation for agricultural purposes, the recovery of phytochemicals from plants, using LED lights on plants and microgreens production, and much more. Covering the new trends in biological control, plant factories, and plant metabolism for application in modern agriculture, this volume provides important research and knowledge that facilitates environmentally friendly plant systems, advances the reduction of production costs, and improves the quality and yield of produce. Focuses on new production alternatives that do not include pesticides, her "Biocontrol Systems and Plant Physiology in Modern Agriculture: Processes, Strategies, Innovations focuses on new production alternatives that do not include pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals for primary food production and instead rely on biologically controlled systems of production. The book also relates a number of advances and innovations in the use of agricultural technologies that employ the study of the physiology of plants to know their resistance to different environments in modern agriculture. The book presents research offering viable alternatives for the control of pests for safe food production that are environmentally friendly and that facilitate the reduction of production costs and improve the quality and yield of produce. The volume addresses innovative biocontrol systems to reduce or eliminate the use of agrochemicals by controlling plant diseases by minimizing environmental damage through the use of antagonistic organisms. It also presents new strategies of cultivation that maximize production by optimizing light, temperature, humidity, nutrients and humidity in a controlled environment. The diverse topics in the volume include botanical compounds as adjuvants as an alternative to reduce the pesticide use, on-site production of bio-control agents, plant factory systems that offer controlled safe environments for plant cultivation, promising bio-nematicides for sustainable agriculture, wastewater reclamation for agricultural purposes, the recovery of phytochemicals from plants, using LED lights on plants and microgreens production, and much more. Covering the new trends in biological control, plant factories, and plant metabolism for application in modern agriculture, this volume provides important research and knowledge that facilitates environmentally friendly plant systems, advances the reduction of production costs, and improves the quality and yield of produce."-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors Abbreviations Preface Part I: Biocontrol Systems: Processes and Strategies in Modern Agriculture Chapter 1: Botanical Compounds as Adjuvants: An Alternative to Reduce the Pesticide Use Chapter 2: Customization of Bioreactor Technology for On-Site Production of Biocontrol Agents Chapter 3: Fungal Biomass Supported on Polyurethane Shavings for Removing the Dye Direct Black 38 Chapter 4: Purpureocillium lilacinum: A Promising Bionematicide for Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 5: Essential Oils: An Overview of Extraction Methods, Applications, and Perspectives Chapter 6: Physical and Chemical Water Quality from a Hybrid System for Wastewater Reclamation for Agricultural Purposes Part II: Plant Physiology Innovations Chapter 7: Effect of Films Based on Pectin-Hydroponic Mucilage on the Quality and Shelf Life of Golden Apple Chapter 8: Vegetable Products from the Huasteca Potosina: A Healthy and Sustainable Option Chapter 9: Strategies for the Recovery of Phytochemicals from Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) Cultivated in the Huasteca Potosina Chapter 10: Effect of LED Light in Biomass Production and Presence of Metabolites in Medicinal Plants Chapter 11: Innovation in Agriculture: A Review of Plant Factory Chapter 12: Sorghum and Aphid (Melanaphis sacchari) Interaction: Plant Physiology, Breeding, and Molecular Overview Chapter 13: Effect of LED Light on Plants and Microgreens Production in a Plant Factory System Chapter 14: New Trends in the Analysis of Abiotic Stress Resistance in Corn: Selected Secondary Metabolites Index