U.S. Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
Date of this Version
November 2002
Abstract
This book, as the title states, is an updated and expanded edition of a 1995 book with a similar title and the same editor. The first thing that may strike the reader of the Handbook is the physical size of this volume. Although the second edition is a few pages shorter than the original (973 vs. 1003 pages), the print size was reduced in this revised edition allowing the expanded text to be presented in a similar number of pages. In revising the book, the editor and authors have rearranged the sections, updated almost all chapters, and added chapters on topics not covered in the original edition. The editor states that between 65 to 80% of the material in this edition is new material. In reading the chapters and comparing selected passages between the two editions, this claim maybe a bit an exaggeration, but rest assured that a great quantity of new material and information was added. In some cases, authors of chapters that occur in both editions have also changed.
Comments
Published in CROP SCIENCE, VOL. 42, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2002.