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Edited By Donald Sparks, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Description Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture. The Science Citation Index,
1986, reports an impact factor over 2,459 and a cited half-life over 10 years.
Volume 76 contains five excellent reviews on topics of
great interest to crop and soil scientists as well as others in various fields. Chapter 1 is concerned with the potential of tropical
soils to sequester carbon. Topics that are covered include soil inorganic and organic pools and dynamics, loss of soil organic pools
from tropical soils, and potential for C sequestration in tropical soils. Chapter 2 covers the applications of crop/soil simulation
models in tropical agricultural systems. Chapter 3 deals with interorganismal signaling in suboptimum environments with emphasis on
legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Chapter 4 discusses the surface chemistry and function of microbial biofilms. The authors discuss biofilm
formation and matrix architecture and general features and properties. Chapter 5 deals with vegetable crop scheduling and prediction.
Topics that are covered include identification of stages of growth and development and experimental approaches for developing scheduling
and prediction models.
Audience
Professionals and students in the field of agronomy and plant, soil, and environmental sciences.
Contents 1. The Potential of Soils of the Tropics to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect -R. Lal
2. Applications of Crop/Soil
Simulation Models in Tropical Agricultural Systems -Robin Matthews, William Stephens, Tim Hess, Tabitha Middleton, and Anil Graves
3. Interorganismal Signaling in Suboptimum Environments: The Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis -F. Zhang and D.L. Smith
4. Surface
Chemistry and Function of Microbial Biofilms -M.A. Chappell and V.P. Evangelou
5. Crop Scheduling and Prediction-Principles
and Opportunities with Field Vegetables -D.C.E. Wurr, J.R. Fellows, and K. Phelps
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