![Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops]( "Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops")
Click to have a closer look
About this book
Contents
Customer reviews
Biography
Related titles
About this book
Examines climate-soil-plant interrelationships governing the nutritional and growth aspects of cereal, legume, and pasture crops--providing basic and applied information to improve the management and potential yield of major temperate and tropical field crop. The Second Edition furnishes a new chapter on the management of degraded soils, and improved organization of chapter sequence, and more than 325 tables and drawings--over 90 new to this edition.
Contents
Field crops and mineral nutrition; factors affecting production of field crops; nutrient flux in soil-plant system; diagnostic techniques for nutritional disorders; nutrient management of degraded soils; the role of essential nutrients on plantdiseases; simulation of crop growth and management; wheat and barley; rice; corn; sorghum; soybeans; common bean and cowpea; peanut; sugarcane; cassava and potato; cotton; forage.
Customer Reviews
Biography
EMBRAPA, San Antonio de Goias, GO, Brazil USDA/ARS SPCL, Beltsville, MD, USA Texas A&M University, Dallas, USA
Edited By: NK Fageria, VC Baligar and CA Jones
624 pages, Figs, tabs
... well written and illustrated with excellent figures ... includes a lot of important data ...[and] clear and concise definitions. ... recommended as a first reference. ... would also be an excellent textbook. --Journal of Plant Physiology The success of the 'Green Revolution' has enabled agriculture to keep pace with the relentless growth of human populations through the development of semi-dwarf crops resistant to pests and pathogens, whose yield is maintained through the applications of agrochemicals, mineral fertilizers and irrigation. ... The 19 chapters of this excellent book cover many of the aspects of the growth and mineral nutrition of field crops that will be required to achieve sustainable, high-yield agriculture. It provides a general introduction to the mineral nutrition of field crops, environmental factors affecting crop production and the management of soils for sustainable crop production. Individual chapters describe in detail the growth and development, nutritional requirements and management options for the production of wheat and barley, rice, maize, sorghum, soyabean, common bean and cowpea, peanut, sugarcane, cassava and potato, cotton, forage and cover crops. The book will inform the next generation of academics, students, research scientists and extension workers on whose efforts the next 'Evergreen Revolution' will depend. I recommend that they not only read it carefully, but also swiftly put its messages into practice. --Philip J. White, in Experimental Agriculture, 2011, Vol. 47, Issue 3
