Author: V. BosubabuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Evaluation of Seedling Growth and Nutrient Uptake of Oilseed and Pulse Crops Grown Under Different Seasons and Nutrient Levels
Author: V. BosubabuOilseed Crops
Author: Parvaiz AhmadPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119048796
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Oil Seed Crops: Yield and Adaptations under Environmental Stress is a state-of-the-art reference that investigates the effect of environmental stress on oil seed crops and outlines effective ways to reduce stress and improve crop yield. With attention to physiological, biochemical, molecular, and transgenic approaches, the chapters discuss a variety of oil seed crops and also cover a broad range of environmental stressors including microbes, salt, heavy metals, and climate change. Featuring up-to-date research from a global group of experts, this reference provides innovative recommendations for mitigating environmental stress and promoting the healthy growth, development, and adaptation of crops.
Crop Physiology Case Histories for Major Crops
Author: Victor SadrasPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128191953
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Crop Physiology: Case Histories of Major Crops updates the physiology of broad-acre crops with a focus on the genetic, environmental and management drivers of development, capture and efficiency in the use of radiation, water and nutrients, the formation of yield and aspects of quality. These physiological process are presented in a double context of challenges and solutions. The challenges to increase plant-based food, fodder, fiber and energy against the backdrop of population increase, climate change, dietary choices and declining public funding for research and development in agriculture are unprecedented and urgent. The proximal technological solutions to these challenges are genetic improvement and agronomy. Hence, the premise of the book is that crop physiology is most valuable when it engages meaningfully with breeding and agronomy. With contributions from 92 leading scientists from around the world, each chapter deals with a crop: maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum and oat; quinoa; soybean, field pea, chickpea, peanut, common bean, lentil, lupin and faba bean; sunflower and canola; potato, cassava, sugar beet and sugarcane; and cotton. A crop-based approach to crop physiology in a G x E x M context Captures the perspectives of global experts on 22 crops
Chemical Abstracts
Author: Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
Author: Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Nutrient Cycling in Pacific Northwest Oilseed Production
Author: Warren Ashley Hammac IIPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Nutrient cycling is an important matter in all crop production but it is particularly important in oilseed production. The efficiency by which oilseed crops can be grown and the impact of their cultivation dictates the future of bioenergy policy. The dissertation that follows attempts to dissect the intricacies of nutrient cycling in Pacific Northwestern oilseed production to inform policy and provide farmers with valuable information. This dissertation is comprised of four chapters including 1) Nitrogen Use Efficiency In Eastern Washington Canola Production, 2) The Impact of Nitrogen Rate and Timing and Sulfur Rate On Eastern Washington Canola Grain, Oil Yield, and Oil Quality, 3) Cropping System, Nitrogen Use Efficiency, and Adoption Rate Impact on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential for Pacific Northwest Canola Production, 4) High Resolution Imaging to Assess Oilseed Species' Root Hair Responses to Soil Water Stress. Canola has the potential to be a successful crop in the dryland Pacific Northwest due to its high yield potential with little available water; however, many challenges must be overcome. Nitrogen recommendations should account for canola's ability to access residual soil N and redeposit it for a following crop. Nitrogen timing and sulfur rate and timing appear to have little effect on grain and oil yield in spite of previous reports to the contrary. Canola nitrogen use efficiency has a major impact on life cycle greenhouse gas production when compared to that of fossil derived diesel. The Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuels policies would do well to encourage improved nitrogen use efficiency in biofuel feedstock production to magnify the greenhouse gas mitigation potential that renewable fuels offer. Utilization of simple and inexpensive imaging techniques are effective ways to conduct root research that may help in understanding the role of plant root hairs in soil carbon accumulation and storage. High resolution imaging of various root systems under varying levels of water availability indicate root surface area, density, and architecture are significantly affected by water availability. Nutrient uptake, cropping system and soil carbon sequestration models that do not account for these differences are prone to error.
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Legumes for Soil Health and Sustainable Management
Author: Ram Swaroop MeenaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811302537
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Sustainable management of soils is an important global issue of the 21st century. Feeding roughly 8 billion people with an environmentally sustainable production system is a major challenge, especially considering the fact that 10% of the world’s population at risk of hunger and 25% at risk of malnutrition. Accordingly, the 68th United Nations (UN) general assembly declared 2016 the “International Year of Pulses” to raise awareness and to celebrate the role of pulses in human nutrition and welfare. Likewise, the assembly declared the year 2015 as the “International Year of Soils” to promote awareness of the role of “healthy soils for a healthy life” and the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) has declared 2015-2024 as the International Decade of Soils. Including legumes in cropping systems is an important toward advancing soil sustainability, food and nutritional security without compromising soil quality or its production potential. Several textbooks and edited volumes are currently available on general soil fertility or on legumes but‚ to date‚ none have been dedicated to the study of “Legumes for Soil Health and Sustainable Management”. This is important aspect, as the soil, the epidermis of the Earth (geoderma)‚ is the major component of the terrestrial biosphere. This book explores the impacts of legumes on soil health and sustainability, structure and functioning of agro-ecosystems, agronomic productivity and food security, BNF, microbial transformation of soil N and P, plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria, biofertilizers, etc. With the advent of fertilizers, legumes have been sidelined since World War II, which has produced serious consequences for soils and the environment alike. Therefore, legume-based rational cropping/soil management practices must support environmentally and economically sustainable agroecosystems based on (sequential) rotation and intercropping considerations to restore soil health and sustainability. All chapters are amply illustrated with appropriately placed data, tables, figures, and photographs, and supported with extensive and cutting-edge references. The editors have provided a roadmap for the sustainable development of legumes for food and nutritional security and soil sustainability in agricultural systems, offering a unique resource for teachers, researchers, and policymakers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of soil science, agronomy, ecology, and the environmental sciences.
Nutrient Management in Oilseeds
Author: Nanak PasrichaPublisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846536001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A review of the recently published information on the nutritional aspects of oil seed crops in relation to their yield and quality reveals a substantial scope for increasing their production in the country. National self-sufficiency of edible oil would be enhanced if the productivity of the oil seed crops on marginal soils under rain fed conditions is increased through adoption of improved management technology and improved germ-plasm. This warrants intensive research efforts in these areas. Applying mineral fertilizers in balanced amounts and in an integrated manner by combining with bulky organic manures and crop residues can ensure sustainable production at higher productivity and higher quality level of the oil seed crops. For optimum utilization of other essential inputs, fertilizer requirements need to be fine-tuned, especially in oil seed-based cropping systems and intercropping systems. Besides making best use of the applied nutrients, such management practices can substantially benefit the major cereal crops from the fixed-N, if the accompanying oil seed crop happens to be a leguminous like soybean or groundnut.