Contents
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Strategies for Sustainable Plant Food Production:
Facing the Current Agricultural Challenges—Agriculture
for Today and Tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Lina Garcia-Mier, Sandra Neli Jimenez-Garcia,
Angela María Chapa-Oliver, Laura Mejia-Teniente,
Rosalía V. Ocampo-Velazquez, Enrique Rico-García,
Ana A. Feregrino-Pérez, Ramon Guevara-Gonzalez
and Irineo Torres-Pacheco
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Mathematical Modeling of Biosystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Moisés Alejandro Vázquez-Cruz, Alejandro Espinosa-Calderón,
Angélica Rosario Jiménez-Sánchez and Rosario Guzmán-Cruz
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Water Recycling in Biosystems for Food Production . . . . . . . . . .
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L. Pérez-Sánchez, A. Rodríguez-Méndez, I. Montufar-Reyes,
R. Trejo-Hernández, M. Mayorga-Garay, A. C. Montoya-Lizarraga,
L. M. Macías-Sámano, B. Reséndiz-Luján,
J. Alberto Rodríguez-Morales, Eduardo A. Elizalde-Peña
and K. Esquivel-Escalante
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Biosystems Engineering Applied to Greenhouse Pest Control . . . .
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Enric Vila and Tomas Cabello
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Sugarcane as a Novel Biofactory: Potentialities
and Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Fernando C. Gómez-Merino, Libia I. Trejo-Téllez
and Héctor E. Sentíes-Herrera
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Edible Ectomycorrhizal Mushrooms: Biofactories
for Sustainable Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Jesús Pérez-Moreno and Magdalena Martínez-Reyes
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