迄今国内绝大多数高校及大多数专业都开设了专业英语课程，但已有的相关教材和课程教学内容几乎均仅限于专业文献的选读，这样既限制学生学习课程的兴趣也影响教学质量。谭万忠，王进军主编的这本《农业与生物科学专业英语（普通高等教育十二五规划教材）》是作者对学习和教授专业英语课程的经验与教学成果的总结，其内容和编排系统都较新颖。全书内容分为9章，第1章概述专业英语的相关概念、课程内涵及学习策略；第2章讲述英文词汇学与词汇快速扩充方法；在第3章介绍提高文献阅读效率的技巧之后，第4章选编8篇农学与生物学文献供学生进行阅读实践；第5～7章讨论英语的写作基本理论知识，包括文章的组织结构与衔接、常见写作错误与校正及重要的语言程式；第8～9章分别讨论事务信函和科研论文的写作。每章都附有中文提要和练习题，书末附有不规则动词和名词、常用拉丁语词组及英语词缀等重要参考知识。
本书可作为农林、生物和环境等学科各专业的本科教材使用，也可作为其他专业学者和英语爱好者的参考用书。

前言
Chapter 1 An Introduction toAcademic English
1.1 Concept of academic English
1.2 Academic English course
1.3 The academic English course book
1.4 Organizing your study
1.5 Strategies for English learning
Chapter 2 Learning New Words and Extending Your Vocabulary
2.1 General strategies and skills for learning new words
2.2 English word formation
2.2.1 Conversion of words
2.2.2 Word compounding
2.2.3 Abbreviation
2.2.4 Affixation
2.3 Word roots
2.3.1 Some common roots
2.3.2 Exploring the basics of roots
2.4 Word element
2.4.1 Origin of word elements
2.4.2 Some words and their element forms
Chapter 3 Techniques for Improving Efficiency of Reading English Literatures
3.1 Reading with a purpose
3.2 Using the title
3.3 Surveying a book
3.4 Surveying a text using first few lines of paragraphs
3.5 Surveying a text using the first and the last paragraphs
3.6 Scanning
3.7 Knowing meaning of words or phrases in context
3.8 Multiple reading skills by knowing the text organization
Chapter 4 Selected Readings in Biology and Agriculture
4.1 Microorganism
4.1.1 History
4.1.2 Classification and structure
4.1.3 Habitats and ecology
4.1.4 Importance
4.2 Agriculture
4.2.1 Etymology and terminology
4.2.2 History
4.2.3 Workforce
4.2.4 Safety
4.2.5 Agricultural production systems
4.2.6 Production practices
4.2.7 Crop alteration and biotechnology
4.2.8 Environmental impact
4.2.9 Agricultural economics
4.2.10 Agriculture policy
4.3 Systematics, taxonomy and classification
4.3.1 The importance of biological classification
4.3.2 Taxonomic hierarchies
4.3.3 The goals of classification systems
4.3.4 Phenetic systematics
4.3.5 Cladistic systematics
4.3.6 Constructing phylogenies
4.3.7 Taxonomic keys
4.3.8 Summary
4.4 Weed management in organic crop production
4.4.1 Prevention
4.4.2 Sanitation
4.4.3 Cultural control
4.4.4 Crop competition
4.4.5 Mechanical control by tillage
4.4.6 Harvest management
4.4.7 Other control methods
4.4.8 Allelopathy
4.4.9 Biological weed control
4.4.10 Conclusion
4.5 Genetically modified crops
4.5.1 Gene transfer in nature and traditional agriculture..
4.5.2 History
4.5.3 Methods
4.5.4 Types of genetic engineering
4.5.5 Business of GM crops
4.5.6 Uses, actual and proposed
4.5.7 Extent of worldwide use of GM crops
4.5.8 Examples of genetically modified crops
4.5.9 Effects on farming practices
4.5.10 Regulation
4.5.11 Controversy
4.6 Archaea: the life's extremists
4.6.1 Archaea fossil record
4.6.2 Archaea ecology
4.6.3 Archaea systematics
4.6.4 Archaea morphology
4.7 Plant genomics - sowing the seeds of success
4.7.1 Crop genomics: growing potential
4.7.2 Model behavior: lessons from Arabidopsis and Brachypodium
4.7.3 Sensing change: responses to the environment
4.7.4 The tree of life
4.7.5 Concluding remarks
4.8 Lichens: an alliance between kingdoms
4.8.1 Fossil record of lichens
4.8.2 Life history and ecology
4.8.3 Systematics of lichens
4.8.4 More on morphology of lichens
Chapter 5 Awareness and Correction of Errors in Writing
5.1 Some common causes of error
5.2 Errors and corrections in standard usage
5.2.1 Cases of nouns and pronouns
5.2.2 Agreement of verb with subject
5.2.3 Agreement of pronoun with antecedent
5.2.4 Agreement of denominative adjective with its object
5.3 Unity and coherence in the sentence
5.3.1 Unity of thought
5.3.2 Unity of structure
5.3.3 Coherence
5.4 Errors and correction in spelling
5.4.1 Some effective ways of reducing misspelling
5.4.2 Some