Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 166 - January 29, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 5 8 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 0 7 4 - 2
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 166, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field. Each chapte… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Agronomy, Volume 166, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
- Includes numerous, timely, state-of-the-art reviews on the latest advancements in agronomy
- Features distinguished, well recognized authors from around the world
- Builds upon this venerable and iconic review series
- Covers the extensive variety and breadth of subject matter in the crop and soil sciences
Scientists and practitioners in academe, government, and industry and students in an array of fields including crop and soil sciences, agronomy, plant biology, and environmental sciences
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Managing cadmium in agricultural systems
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Sources of cadmium in agricultural systems
- 3: Chemistry of cadmium in farm inputs and in soils
- 4: Reactions of cadmium with soils and cadmium transport
- 5: Accumulation of cadmium in soils
- 6: Uptake and translocation of cadmium by plants
- 7: Managing cadmium in agricultural systems
- 8: Conclusions and outlook
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Two: Role of cultural and nutrient management practices in carbon sequestration in agricultural soil
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Cultural management options for soil C sequestration
- 3: Influence of nutrients on soil C sequestration
- 4: Priming effect
- 5: Residue composition and its influence on SOM decomposition
- 6: Future research needs
- 7: Summary
- Chapter Three: A review and synthesis of sugarcane losses attributed to infield traffic
- Abstract
- Terminology
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Sugarcane crop response to infield traffic
- 3: Literature synthesis and meta-analysis to determine the yield response of sugarcane to infield traffic
- 4: Application: A case study to estimate traffic induced field yield loss
- 5: Results and discussion
- 6: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A: Southern African Data
- Appendix B: International Data
- Chapter Four: Breeding for high-yield and nitrogen use efficiency in maize: Lessons from comparison between Chinese and US cultivars
- Abstract
- Highlight
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Change of agronomic and physiological traits during maize cultivar replacement
- 3: Compare Chinese cultivar with Pioneer cultivar
- 4: Change of NUE-related traits
- 5: Change trend of root traits
- 6: Ideal plant architecture for high-yield and high NUE in maize
- 7: Prospect
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Five: A review of the world's soil museums and exhibitions
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Results
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 166
- Published: January 29, 2021
- No. of pages (Hardback): 328
- No. of pages (eBook): 328
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128245873
- eBook ISBN: 9780323850742
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Donald L. Sparks
DONALD L. SPARKS is the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of biogeochemical processes and surface chemistry of natural materials. His research has focused on fate and transport of trace metals in soil and water, soil remediation, water quality, and carbon sequestration in soils. Dr. Sparks is the author of two previous editions of Environmental Soil Chemistry and more than 350 refereed papers and book chapters. He is fellow of five scientific societies, and he has been the recipient of major awards and lectureships including the Geochemistry Medal from the American Chemical Society, the Liebig Medal from the International Union of Soil Sciences, the Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Dr. Sparks served as president of the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, has served on advisory committees for several national laboratories and national and international centers and institutes, and served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Soil Sciences and other NAS Committees.
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Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USARead Advances in Agronomy on ScienceDirect