Author: Publisher: CIAT
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis: Evaluation, Selection and Agronomic Management
Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment
Author: Dietrich WernerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402035446
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Sustainability has a major part to play in the global challenge of continued development of regions, countries, and continents all around the World and biological nitrogen fixation has a key role in this process. This volume begins with chapters specifically addressing crops of major global importance, such as soybeans, rice, and sugar cane. It continues with a second important focus, agroforestry, and describes the use and promise of both legume trees with their rhizobial symbionts and other nitrogen-fixing trees with their actinorhizal colonization. An over-arching theme of all chapters is the interaction of the plants and trees with microbes and this theme allows other aspects of soil microbiology, such as interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the impact of soil-stress factors on biological nitrogen fixation, to be addressed. Furthermore, a link to basic science occurs through the inclusion of chapters describing the biogeochemically important nitrogen cycle and its key relationships among nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification. The volume then provides an up-to-date view of the production of microbial inocula, especially those for legume crops.
Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Author: Andre BationoPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402057601
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1051
Book Description
Food insecurity is a fundamental challenge to human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production leads to low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risk and threat and lack of empowerment. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of agricultural research and development experiences from sub-Saharan Africa. The text highlights practical lessons from the sub-Saharan Africa region.
Pastures for the Tropical Lowlands
Author: Centro Internacional de Agricultura TropicalPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9789589183458
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Introduction; Tropical pastures target environments; Regional germplasm evaluation: A portfolio of germplasm options for the major ecosystems of tropical amarica; Methodological challenges in pasture research; Germplasme case study: Brachiaria species; Germplasm case study: Arachis pintoi; Integrating the native savanna resource with improved pastures; Experiences at the interface of research and development with tropical pastures; The role of pastures in production systems; Soil-plant factors and prodesses affscting productivity in ley farming; tropical pastures program: bibliobraphy of publictions, 1985-1991; Acronyms; abbreviations.
Publications of the International Agricultural Research and Development Centers
Author: Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711042266
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Technical Handbook on Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251031995
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
General information on the symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Isolation, identification and counting of rhizobia. Production of an inoculant and inoculation of legumes. Experiments.
New Horizons in Nitrogen Fixation
Author: Rafael PalaciosPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401724164
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
In order to understand a process as complex as nitrogen fixation and to be in a position to manipulate it for the benefit of mankind, researchers are now working at the frontiers of science in many different areas: protein structure and function; catalytic mechanisms; electron transfer processes; regulatory circuits and environmental sensing; metabolic integration; chemical communication between organisms; differentiation; genome structure and function; microbial ecology; plant physiology; plant molecular biology; and agronomy. This volume represents a testimony to the advances in nitrogen fixation research that have been made and the contribution of these efforts to the solution of many other varied scientific problems. Limiting steps for future advances are analyzed and new horizons in nitrogen fixation research are proposed.
Centrosema
Author: Rainer Schultze-KraftPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9789589183120
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Handbook for Rhizobia
Author: Padma SomasegaranPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461383757
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Rhizobia are bacteria which inhabit the roots of plants in the pea family and "fix" atmospheric nitrogen for plant growth. They are thus of enormous economic importance internationally and the subject of intense research interest. Handbook for Rhizobia is a monumental book of practical methods for working with these bacteria and their plant hosts. Topics include the general microbiological properties of rhizobia and their identification, their potential as symbionts, methods for inoculating rhizobia onto plants, and molecular genetics methods for Rhizobium in the laboratory. The book will be invaluable to Rhizobium scientists, soil microbiologists, field and laboratory researchers at agricultural research centers, agronomists, and crop scientists.
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