In recent years the value of science to society and in turn the obligation of society to support science have become widely questioned. Some national leaders have expressed the feeling, likely shar…
During 1976, an event occurred which is of great significance to all mankind. At some location, probably in one of the developing countries where population growth is high, a child was born, the wo…
Agronomy has again emerged in the eyes of the world as an important profession. The world food production problem has again reared its ugly head and statesmen and laymen alike are looking to crop a…
NITROGEN FIXATION IN GRASES SOMATIC CELL GENETICS AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT SOIL ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS GROWTH OF THE LEGUME SEEDLING YIELDS AND CULTURAL ENERGY REQUIREMENTS FOR CORN AND SOYBEANS WIT…
The genetic yield potential of most crop plants is severalfold greater than the average yields actually achieved by farmers. Even the best performing cultivars commonly yield in the field no more t…
The methods and unit operations used in preparative organic chemistry are treated in the present volume. The discussion of distillation and of adsorption required the space of separate volumes. Aut…
The techniques for conducting catalytic, photochemical, and electro- lytic reactions are discussed in the present volume. Electrolytic and photochemical reactions have been used for a long time …
The purpose of this treatise is stated in the preface to the first edition. The second edition has been enlarged by five new chapters (I, II, V, XIII, XXVI), by new sections in chapters XV and XXII…
It is the objective of this book to deseribe and explain, by diseussion of prineiples, the various methods by which adsorption may be utilized in organie chemistry as a tool for the separation of…
Dramatic reductions during the past two years in the world food supply have jolted a complacent world into the realization that the food-population race remains unquestionably the most critical pro…