Soils Plant Growth And Crop Production

Author : Willy H. Verheye
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263680

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Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production - Volume II by Willy H. Verheye Pdf

Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production is a component of Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. Plants, and crops in particular, grow and develop through the uptake of water and nutrients by the root system in soils and their transformation into biomass through processes governed by photosynthesis. The quality and amount of products harvested from this biomass depend largely on the intrinsic properties of the soil, i.e. the moisture and nutrients made available for uptake by the roots. These volumes describe in a synthetic form the impact of the most important soil properties on general agronomy, crop production, cultivation methods, and yields, including the specific management aspects which take away some production constraints. Changes in general agronomy as a result of plant breeding, climatic change and competition between newly introduced crops are discussed. The three volumes with contributions from distinguished experts in the field discusses about soils, plant growth and crop production in several related topics. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Willy H. Verheye
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263673

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Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production - Volume I by Willy H. Verheye Pdf

Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production is a component of Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. Plants, and crops in particular, grow and develop through the uptake of water and nutrients by the root system in soils and their transformation into biomass through processes governed by photosynthesis. The quality and amount of products harvested from this biomass depend largely on the intrinsic properties of the soil, i.e. the moisture and nutrients made available for uptake by the roots. These volumes describe in a synthetic form the impact of the most important soil properties on general agronomy, crop production, cultivation methods, and yields, including the specific management aspects which take away some production constraints. Changes in general agronomy as a result of plant breeding, climatic change and competition between newly introduced crops are discussed. The three volumes with contributions from distinguished experts in the field discusses about soils, plant growth and crop production in several related topics. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Willy H. Verheye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Crops
ISBN : 1848268181

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Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production by Willy H. Verheye Pdf

Author : Willy H. Verheye
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263697

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Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production - Volume III by Willy H. Verheye Pdf

Soils, Plant Growth and Crop Production is a component of Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. Plants, and crops in particular, grow and develop through the uptake of water and nutrients by the root system in soils and their transformation into biomass through processes governed by photosynthesis. The quality and amount of products harvested from this biomass depend largely on the intrinsic properties of the soil, i.e. the moisture and nutrients made available for uptake by the roots. These volumes describe in a synthetic form the impact of the most important soil properties on general agronomy, crop production, cultivation methods, and yields, including the specific management aspects which take away some production constraints. Changes in general agronomy as a result of plant breeding, climatic change and competition between newly introduced crops are discussed. The three volumes with contributions from distinguished experts in the field discusses about soils, plant growth and crop production in several related topics. These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Peter J. Gregory,Stephen Nortcliff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405197700

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Soil Conditions and Plant Growth by Peter J. Gregory,Stephen Nortcliff Pdf

Building on the extremely successful and popular Russell’s Soil Conditions and Plant Growth, Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to publish this completely revised and updated edition of the soil science classic. Covering all aspects of the interactions between plant and soil, Peter Gregory and Stephen Nortcliff, along with their team of internationally-known and respected authors, provide essential reading for all students and professionals studying and working in agriculture and soil science. Subject areas covered range from crop science and genetics; soil fertility and organic matter; nitrogen and phosphoros cycles and their management; properties and management of plant nutrients; water and the soil physical environment and its management; plants and change processes in soils; management of the soil/plant system; and new challenges including food, energy and water security in a changing environment. Providing a very timely account on how better to understand and manage the many interactions that occur between soils and plants, Soil Conditions and Plant Growth is sure to become the book of choice - as a recommended text for students and as an invaluable reference for those working or entering into the industry. An essential purchase for all universities and research establishments where agricultural, soil, and environmental sciences are studied and taught.

Author : Douglas W. Ming,Donald L. Henninger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017933923

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Lunar Base Agriculture by Douglas W. Ming,Donald L. Henninger Pdf

Lunar base scenarios; The lunar environment; Chemical and physical considerations for a lunar-derived soil; Biological considerations for a lunar-derived soil; Controlled ecological life support systems (CELSS): current research; Future research areas: the growth of higher plant in CELSS.

Author : Edward John Russell,Alan Wild
Publisher : Longman Scientific and Technical
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013545721

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Russell's Soil Conditions and Plant Growth by Edward John Russell,Alan Wild Pdf

**** A classic, cited in BCL3. A Longman Scientific and Technical Publication. First edition, 1912; 10th ed., 1973. The 11th edition upholds the reputation earned by earlier ones. In a lucid style, it discusses the quantitative effects of soil and climate on the growth of farm crops, incorporating advances in plant and soil research, including new information on crop growth, soil processes and properties, and the management of soil for agricultural and horticultural purposes. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Nand Kumar Fageria,Virupax C. Baligar,Charles Allan Jones
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0824700899

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Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops, Third Edition by Nand Kumar Fageria,Virupax C. Baligar,Charles Allan Jones Pdf

"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. 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."

Author : Roy Luther Donahue,Raymond W. Miller,John C. Shickluna
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031813111

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Soils by Roy Luther Donahue,Raymond W. Miller,John C. Shickluna Pdf

Soils: an essential world resource; Parent materials and soil formation, soil genesis; Physical properties of soils; Soil water; Chemical and colloidal properties; Soils and plant nutrition; Soil organic matter; Soil ecology and environmental quality; Fertilizers and their use; Soil diagnosis; Acid soils and lime; Saline and sodic soils and their reclamation; Organic amendaments and recycling of wastes; Tillage; Soil conservation and management; Water quality and irrigation; Drainage systems; Soils classification; Soil surveys, interpretations, and use planning; Soils of the humid tropics and subtropics; Soil requiring unusual management; Soils, food production,a nd world population.

Author : N. K. Fageria,V. C. Baligar,C. Allan Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015032526256

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Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops by N. K. Fageria,V. C. Baligar,C. Allan Jones Pdf

Emphasizing soil as the substrate for plant growth, this volume examines climate-soil-plant relationships governing growth and mineral nutrition of most vital temperate and tropical field crops around the world, including cereal, legume, and pasture crops. Covers recent studies of genetic, physiolog

Author : Khalid Rehman Hakeem,Javaid Akhtar,Muhammad Sabir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319344515

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Soil Science: Agricultural and Environmental Prospectives by Khalid Rehman Hakeem,Javaid Akhtar,Muhammad Sabir Pdf

Soil is the most important natural non-renewable resource developed over a longer period of time due to weathering of rocks and subsequently enrichment of organic matter. Soil provides habitat for numerous microorganisms and serves as a natural medium for plant growth, thereby providing the plants with anchorage, nutrients and water to sustain the growth. Soil also serves as a universal sink for all types of pollutants, purifies ground water and is a major reserve of carbon in the universe. The role of soils to provide ecosystem services, maintenance of environmental/human health and ensuring the food security makes it as the most important and basic natural resource. Soil Science helps us to elaborate and understand how the soils provide all these services. Soil Science also provides us the basic knowledge dealing with the origin of the soil parent material, weathering of parent material and the formation of soils, morphological, physico-chemical and biological features of soils, classification of soils and role of soils in the provision and maintenance of ecosystem services, food security and environmental quality. This book encompasses the various processes, functions and behaviour of soils very comprehensively to acquaint the students of soil, plant and environmental sciences about their role to perform different agricultural and environmental functions.

Author : Graham Stirling,Helen Hayden,Tony Pattison,Marcelle Stirling
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781486303052

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Soil Health, Soil Biology, Soilborne Diseases and Sustainable Agriculture by Graham Stirling,Helen Hayden,Tony Pattison,Marcelle Stirling Pdf

Our capacity to maintain world food production depends heavily on the thin layer of soil covering the Earth's surface. The health of this soil determines whether crops can grow successfully, whether a farm business is profitable and whether an enterprise is sustainable in the long term. Farmers are generally aware of the physical and chemical factors that limit the productivity of their soils but often do not recognise that soil microbes and the soil fauna play a major role in achieving healthy soils and healthy crops. Soil Health, Soil Biology, Soilborne Diseases and Sustainable Agriculture provides readily understandable information about the bacteria, fungi, nematodes and other soil organisms that not only harm food crops but also help them take up water and nutrients and protect them from root diseases. Complete with illustrations and practical case studies, it provides growers and their consultants with holistic solutions for building an active and diverse soil biological community capable of improving soil structure, enhancing plant nutrient uptake and suppressing root pests and pathogens. The book is written by scientists with many years' experience developing sustainable crop production practices in the grains, vegetable, sugarcane, grazing and horticultural industries. This book will be useful for: growers, consultants, agronomists and soil chemists, extension personnel working in the grains, livestock, sugarcane and horticultural industries, professionals running courses in soil health/biological farming, and students taking university courses in soil science, ecology, microbiology, plant pathology and other biological sciences.

Author : Geoffrey R. Dixon,Emma L. Tilston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048194797

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Soil Microbiology and Sustainable Crop Production by Geoffrey R. Dixon,Emma L. Tilston Pdf

Soils into which crop plants root and from which they obtain essential minerals and water contain huge arrays of microbes. Many have highly beneficial effects on crop growth and productivity, others are pathogens causing diseases and losses to yield and quality, a few microbes offer protection from these pathogenic forms and others have little or no effect. These intimate and often complex inter-relationships are being explored with increasing success providing exciting opportunities for increasing crop yields and quality in sustainable harmony with the populations of beneficial soil microbes and to the detriment of pathogens. This book explores current knowledge for each of these aspects of soil microbiology and indicates where future progress is most likely to aid in increasing crop productivity by means which are environmentally benign and beneficial.

Author : E.J. Russell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520369184

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Plant Nutrition and Crop Production by E.J. Russell Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1926.

Author : Nand Kumar Fageria
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439867372

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The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production by Nand Kumar Fageria Pdf

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops. This book addresses the role of roots in crop production and includes references to numerous annual crops. In addition, it brings together the issues and the state-of-the-art technologies that affect root growth, with comprehensive reviews to facilitate efficient, sustainable, economical, and environmentally responsible crop production. Written for plant scientists, crop scientists, horticulturalists, and soil scientists, plant physiologists, breeders, environmental scientists, agronomists, and undergraduate and graduate students in different disciplines of agricultural science, The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production: Addresses root architecture and development dynamics to help users improve crop productivity Emphasizes crop production, plant nutrition, and soil chemistry relative to root growth and functions Covers root morphology, root functions, nutrient and water uptake by roots, root-soil interactions, root-environment interactions, root-microbe interactions, physiology of root crops, and management practices to improve root growth Supports content with experimental results, and additional data is presented with pictures Increasing food production worldwide has become a major issue in the 21st century. Stagnation in grain yield of important food crops in recent years in developed, as well as developing, countries has contributed to a sharp increase in food prices. Furthermore, higher grain yield will be needed in the future to feed a burgeoning world population with a rising standard of living that requires more grain per capita. Technologies that enhance productivity, ensure environmental safety, and conserve natural resources are required to meet this challenge.