
Advances in Agronomy
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Key Features
- Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in agriculture
- Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues
- Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field
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Table of Contents
Advances in Agronomy
Contributors
Preface
Chapter One. Digital Mapping of Soil Carbon
1 Introduction
2 Review of Past Studies
3 Soil Carbon Measurement and Depth
4 Source of Data: Soil Sampling and Legacy Data
5 Prediction and Mapping
6 Uncertainty and Validation
7 Mapping AND PREDICTING Soil Carbon Change
8 Conclusions
References
Chapter Two. Impacts of Changing Climate and Climate Variability on Seed Production and Seed Industry
1 Introduction
2 Climate Change Effect on Crop Yield, Food Security, and National Gross Domestic Product
3 Climate Change Effect on Geographical Distribution of Crops and Species Composition
4 Climate Change Effect on Insect Pest and Disease Development
5 Climate Change Effect on C3/C4 Crops and Crop/Weed Interactions
6 Climate Change Effect on Seed Production
7 Effect of Climate Change on Pollination
8 Interaction of Climate Change Factors and Other Resources
9 Absence of Climate Safety NET
10 Intellectual Property Rights Issues Related to Seed
11 Conclusions
References
Chapter Three. Elucidating Mechanisms of Competitive Sorption at the Mineral/Water Interface
1 Introduction
2 Sorption of Cations and Anions onto Soil Components
3 Effect of Inorganic and Organic Ligands on Cations Sorption
4 Competitive Sorption of Cations
5 Competitive Sorption of Anions
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter Four. Insights from the Soybean (Glycine max and Glycine soja) Genome
1 Introduction
2 The Pregenomic Era
3 The Genomic Era
4 The Postgenomic Era
References
Chapter Five. Responses of Crop Plants to Ammonium and Nitrate N
1 Introduction
2 Organic N Nutrition for Plants
3 NH4+–N and NO3−–N Absorption Kinetics
4 NH4+–N and NO3−–N Movement to the Root Surface, Uptake, Assimilation, and Transport in Plants
5 Preference of Plants to NO3−–N and NH4+–N
6 NH4+–N and NO3−–N Nutrition at Different Stages of Plants
7 Effect of NH4+–N and NO3−–N Forms on Some Morphological and Physiological Characteristics of Crop Plants
8 Conclusions
References
Chapter Six. Flaming as an Alternative Weed Control Method for Conventional and Organic Agronomic Crop Production Systems
1 Introduction
2 Response of Selected Weed Species to Flaming
3 Response of Selected Agronomic Crops to Flaming
4 Advantages and Disadvantages of Flaming
5 Environmental Impacts of Flaming
6 Practical Recommendations and Future Research
References
Chapter Seven. Ridge-Furrow Mulching Systems—An Innovative Technique for Boosting Crop Productivity in Semiarid Rain-Fed Environments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Variety of Mulching Systems
3 Ridge-Furrow Mulching, Rainwater Conservation, and Soil Temperature
4 Crop Productivity with Ridge-furrow Mulching
5 Effects of Ridge-Furrow Mulching on Soil Attributes
6 Effects of Ridge-Furrow Pattern on Environments
7 Suggestions for Future Research
8 Concluding Remarks
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 512
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
- Published: December 31, 2012
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780124059498
About the Serial Editor
Donald Sparks
