Physical Methods in Agriculture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. On Precision and Quality

   1. On Precision and Quality

      • Miroslav Kutílek

      Pages 1-10

3. Soil and Allocation in Agriculture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Image Analysis and Microscopic Techniques to Characterize Soil Pore System

      • Marcello Pagliai, Nadia Vignozzi

      Pages 13-38

   3. The Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity of Vertical Interaggregate Capillary Cracks in Clay Soils

      • Victor Y. Chertkov

      Pages 39-50

   4. Estimation Error in Statistical Distribution

      • Miroslav Kutílek, Miroslav Krejča, Jana Kupcová-Vlašimská

      Pages 51-59

   5. The Influence of Tillage Methods on the Infiltration in Soil

      • Svatopluk Matula

      Pages 61-81

   6. Bifacial PV Modules in Solar Trackers and Concentrators

      • Martin Libra, Vladislav Poulek

      Pages 83-104

   7. Precision Farming - A Multidisciplinary Approach for Cereal Production

      • Richard J. Godwin

      Pages 105-118

   8. Monitoring Frost Injury to Winter Crops

      • Victor Yakushev, Dmitry Kurtener, Vladimir Badenko

      Pages 119-133

4. Properties and Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Stress Relaxation in Potato

      • Jiří Blahovec

      Pages 137-155

   3. Determination of Hen’s Eggshell Elastic Properties under Quasistatic Compression

      • Jaroslav Buchar, Libor Severa, Jana Simeonovová

      Pages 157-165

   4. The Cracking Mechanisms of Grain Legume

      • Bohdan Dobrzański Jr.

      Pages 167-194

   5. Properties of Grain for Silo Strength Calculation

      • Józef Horabik, Marek Molenda

      Pages 195-217

   6. Digital Image Analysis — Essence and Application in Cereal Science

      • Tomasz Jeliński, Jadwiga Sadowska, Józef Fornal

      Pages 219-240

   7. Thermal Conductivity of Macaroni Products

      • Sebnem Tavman, Perihan Yolci

      Pages 241-256

   8. Transgenosis for Changes of Physical Properties of Plants and Plant Products

      • Miloš Ondřej

      Pages 257-280

   9. Novel Agricultural Materials for Food and Feed. The Transgenic Crops: From Cereals to Potato

      • Józef Fornal, Wioletta Błaszczak, Stanisław Grundas

      Pages 281-308

5. Fruits

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309

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The frrst attempts to use physical methods in agriculture can be found in nineteenth century as a necessary component of farm and food machinery. There were mechanics, electricity and physical chemistry that were the first physical disciplines used in agriculture and food industry. In the same time period the studies on physical properties of soils started to be one of main topics of soil science. The twentieth century was a century of research on physical properties of agromaterials. The physical properties of agromaterials have been studied e. g. in the USA, where a big role has been played by ASAE (1907), and in the Soviet Union where the special Institute of Agrophysics was founded (1932) by Academician Ioffe. The ASAE's activity was enlarged in 1960s and 1970s, especially with the role playing by the Mohsenin's group and its followers. At that time the Institute of Agrophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences was founded in Lublin and conferences on physical methods in agriculture began to be organised. The participants of the last conference - "Physical Methods in Agriculture - Approach to Precision and Quality", held on August 27-30, 2001, have prepared the basis for this book. Part of the conference participants decided to enlarge their conference papers to be more general and more instructive in relation to further development of the science. New papers prepared under this deciSion were reviewed, discussed and revised, repeatedly, to be presented in this book.

• Filtration
• Infiltration
• Tillage
• Transport
• cereals
• distribution
• genetic engineering
• soil
• theory

• Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic

  Jiří Blahovec

• Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

  Miroslav Kutílek

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