Agricultural applications in green chemistry /

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Corporate Authors: American Chemical Society. Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Meeting
Other Authors: Nelson, William M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society : Distributed by Oxford University Press, ©2004.
Series:ACS symposium series ; 887.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Green chemistry and agriculture
  • 1. Agricultural applications in green chemistry
  • 2. Green chemistry and the path to sustainable agriculture
  • 3. Cholorophylls and why plants make them
  • Agriculture products as green chemistry
  • 4. Plant essential oils as green pesticides for pest and disease management
  • 5. Adhesive produced by microorganisms
  • 6. Enhancement of ethanol yield from the corn dry grind process by conversion of the kernel fiber fraction
  • Agricultural processes in green chemistry
  • 7. Chloroplast bioengineering 1: Photosynthetic efficiency, modulation of the photosynthetic unit size and the agricultural of the future
  • 8. Subplastidic distribution of chlorophyll biosynthetic intermediates and characterization of protochlorophylide oxidoreductase C
  • 9. Green remediation of herbicides: studies with atrazine
  • 10. Enzymatic microbial degradation: in-process bioremediation of organic waste-containing aqueous solvents
  • Application of green chemistry principles in agriculture
  • 11. Management of the soybean cyst nematode by using a biorational stategy
  • 12. Potential of entomopathogenic fungi as biological control agents against the formosan subterranean termite
  • Indexes
  • Author index
  • Subject index.