Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants

Sustainable agriculture as a central science to solve global society issues -- Mother of necessity : the soil -- Technology without wisdom -- Transgenic cotton for sustainable pest management -- Conservation agriculture : a different approach for crop production through sustainable soil and water management -- Recurrent mass selection for routine improvement of common wheat -- Rotation design : a critical factor for sustainable crop production in a semiarid climate -- Parasitic plants in agriculture : chemical ecology of germination and host-plant location a targets for sustainable control -- Rice seed invigoration -- Soil management for sustainable crop disease control --Soil protection through organic farming -- Surfactants in sludge-amended agricultural soils - Mineral nutrition for legume-rhizobia symbiosis : B, Ca, N, P, S, K, Fe, Mo, Co, and Ni --Uncommon heavy metals, metalloids and their plant toxicity -- Role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in the remediation of metal contaminated soils -- Phosophates for Pb immobilization in soils -- Cadmium phytotoxicitiy : responses, mechanisms, and mitigation strategies.