Island Press (2004) Mosier A R, Syers J K and Freney J R (eds) 344 p. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series Vol 65. Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth and development and a key agricultural input-but in excess it can lead to a host of problems for human and ecological health. Across the globe, distribution of fertilizer nitrogen is...
2-nd edition. - Brussels-Paris: International Zinc Association (IZA), International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), 2008. - 139 p. ISBN 978-90-8133-310-8 This book "Zinc in Soils and Crop Nutrition" by Brian Alloway contributes significantly to our better understanding of the complexities of Zn dynamics in soil and plant systems. It contains very valuable basic and...
CRC Press, 2006. — 632 p. The burgeoning demand on the world food supply, coupled with concern over the use of chemical fertilizers, has led to an accelerated interest in the practice of precision agriculture. This practice involves the careful control and monitoring of plant nutrition to maximize the rate of growth and yield of crops, as well as their nutritional value. The...
Department of Soil Science University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001. — 56 p. — (Soil Science/Agronomy/Horticulture 326). During the semester, you will complete 11 of the 12 greenhouse and laboratory exercises contained in this manual. The final exercise will be conducted as a demonstration in the greenhouse. The 11 exercises are organized into four units with the following...
CRC Press, 2009. — 448 p. ISBN 978-1-4200-7510-6. Scarcity of natural resources, higher costs, higher demand, and concerns about environmental pollution — under these circumstances, improving food supply worldwide with adequate quantity and quality is fundamental. Based on the author’s more than forty years of experience, The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants builds a bridge...
Third Edition. — CRC Press, 2011. — 586 p. — (Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment). ISBN-13: 978-1-4398-1696-7 (Ebook-PDF). By the year 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach nine billion. To feed and sustain this projected population, world food production must increase by at least 50 percent on much of the same land that we farm today. To meet this...
CRC Press, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1498705863, 13 9781498705868. Includes in-depth coverage of soil and climatic factors that affect P availability. Presents diagnostic techniques for P requirements by different crops. Provides current knowledge on the function of P in crop plants and methods to identify P use efficient field crops. Offers management practices that could...
ITexLi, 2018. — 236 p. — ISBN: 9535137689 9789535137689. This volume is dedicated to Nitrogen - the most yield-restraining nutrient in crop production globally. Efficient nitrogen management is one of the most important factor for improving nitrogen use efficiency, field crops productivity and profitability. Efficient use of nitrogen for crop production is therefore very...
Paris: International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), 2013. - 144 p. ISBN: 979-10-92366-00-6 Foliar fertilization is a widely used crop nutrition strategy of increasing importance worldwide. Used wisely, foliar fertilizers may be more environmentally friendly and target oriented than soil fertilization though plant responses to foliar sprays are variable and many of the...
Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1984. — 190 p. — (Series: FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Bulletin 9/F2731). ISBN-10: 9251021600. ISBN-13: 978-9251021606. The need is well-recognized for the efficient and integrated use of mineral fertilizers and other sources of plant nutrients, like organic materials, biologically fixed atmospheric nitrogen,...
Papers presented at the IFA International Workshop on Fertilizer Best Management Practices 7-9 March 2007, Brussels, Belgium. — Paris: International Fertilizer Industry Association, 2007. — 259 p. ISBN 2-9523139-2-X. Contents. General principles of fertilizer best management practices. Nutrient use efficiency – measurement and management (A. Dobermann). Right product, right...
Springer, 2020. — 214 p. — (Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in the Environment). — ISBN: 978-3-030-21637-5. This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact. The contributing authors include international experts who provide methods for assessing and characterizing the ecological risk of lead contamination of soil and plants....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-57121-0. Molybdenum (Mo) deficiencies in field-grown plants were first recorded in Australia more than 55 years ago, and this book condenses all the information currently available on the subject of Mo as it relates to soils, crops, and livestock. The book reviews our knowledge of the chemistry and...
Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2008. — 237 p. — (Training Course Series No. 29). The present publication has covered the topic of nitrogen management in agroecosystems. The main sources of nitrogen in crop production have been discussed, namely mineral N fertilizers, biologically fixed N and organic N sources. Within each of the three chapters on these subjects,...
Tri-State Press, 2009. — 111 p. The book is designed to introduce people to the idea that plants require healthy food in order to flourish, just a human being does. It describes a then new and rational system for fertilisation which has become science today - fertilising with stone dust. Hensel went searching for food for plants and found it in primeval rocks. Fed on such...
Paris: International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), 2004. — 51 p. This publication provides updated information on the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen transformations in the soil, the role of nitrogen in plants, nitrogen fertilization in crop production and nitrogen fertilization and environmental issues. It was written by Georges Hofman and Oswald Van Cleemput from the...
Paris: International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), 2000. - 54 p. ISBN: 2-9506299-5-4. Phosphorus is essential to all living organisms. In nature, elemental phosphorus is always combined with other elements to form many different phosphates, some of which are very complex. This book written by A.E. Johnston, explores the pathways through which phosphorus is taken up...
Paris-Horgen: International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), International Potash Institute (IPI), 2011. - 141 p. ISBN 978-2-9523139-8-8 This book on fertigation is a joint project of the International Potash Institute (IPI) and the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) intended for the fertilizer industry, scientists, extension workers and policy makers as...
Third edition. — Academic Press, 2011. — 672 p. ISBN: 978-0-12-384905-2. Respected and known worldwide in the field for his research in plant nutrition, Dr. Horst Marschner authored two editions of Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. His research greatly advanced the understanding of rhizosphere processes and trace element uptake by plants and he published extensively in a...
Rome: FAO, 2006. — 350 p. — (FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Bulletin, 16). ISBN 92-5-105490-8. Food security is a major global concern. It depends to a considerable extent on efficient plant nutrition. Extensive information on various aspects of plant nutrition has been generated in the recent past. However, this information remains scattered in several publications. This...
Rome: FAO, 2003. — 88 p. — (FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Bulletin 14). ISBN 92-5-105038-4. Nutrient-balance assessments are valuable tools for delineating the consequences of farming on soil fertility. Various approaches and methods for different situations have been used. This bulletin presents a state-of-the-art overview of nutrient-balance studies. It brings out the...
Science Publishers, 2006. — 265 p. ISBN 1-57808-416-4. The author's resolve to add a resource on the biochemical and physiological roles of micronutrients in plants and the diverse ways in which they react to limitations in micronutrient supply, contributing to global constraints in crop production, came from his long stint as a teacher of plant nutrition at the Lucknow...
Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008. — 108 p. — (FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Bulletin 18). ISBN 978-92-5-105929-6. The efficient use of phosphorus (P) is essential to many agricultural and environmental issues. These include maintaining or improving the P fertility of soils by the judicious use of P fertilizers and other sources of P, such...
Takuji Ohyama, Norikuni Ohtake, Kuni Sueyoshi. — New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2009. — 131 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60741-277-9 (E-book). In the first part, the authors introduce the progress of researches on nitrogen metabolism of soybean nodules and roots. They investigate the fate of nitrogen fixed in soybean nodules by tracer experiment with 15 N 2 gas. The results...
Paris: International Fertilizer Industry Association, 2010. - 74 p. ISBN 978-2-9523139-6-4 This publication has brought together the many aspects of sulphur in agricultural systems. It is important to do this at this time as intensification of food, fibre and animal production is escalating to feed the ever increasing world population. The move from sulphur-containing single...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. — 444 p. — (Topics in sustainable agronomy). ISBN: 0-19-512492-8. This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled "Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System". It describes in detail how plant nutrients and other solutes move in the soil in response to plant uptake, and it provides a basis for understanding processes in the...
Paris: International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), 2010. - 160 p. ISBN 978-2-9523139-7-1. This book is a revision of the IFA publication Improving Fertilizer Use Efficiency: Controlled-Release and Stabilized Fertilizers in Agriculture by the same author, published in 1997. It is intended for use by the fertilizer industry, policy makers and scientists. The main...
InTech, March 21, 2012. - 538 p. ISBN: 978-953-51-0296-0. Phytochemicals are biologically active compounds present in plants used for food and medicine. A great deal of interest has been generated recently in the isolation, characterization and biological activity of these phytochemicals. This book is in response to the need for more current and global scope of phytochemicals....
Nova Science Pub Inc, 2014. — 163 p. Nitrate and nitrite are two ions largely diffused in the environment because they take part in the nitrogen cycle. Moreover, a great part of atmospheric nitrogen may be oxidized to nitrite and nitrate by microorganisms in plants, soil or water. The more stable form of oxidized nitrogen is nitrate ion, but, through microbial activity, it can...
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