Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 167 - April 29, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 5 8 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 0 7 5 - 9
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 167, 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 167, 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 academic, 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: pXRF in tropical soils: Methodology, applications, achievements and challenges
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Main differences between tropical and temperate soils
- 3: Fundamentals and evolution of portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
- 4: Factors affecting analysis by pXRF in tropical soils and equipment accuracy assessment
- 5: Radiation safety while using pXRF
- 6: Tropical soil pXRF methodology
- 7: Successful applications of pXRF in tropical soils
- 8: Future applications in tropical soil science
- 9: Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Quantitative estimation of carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems using natural variations in the δ13C abundance of soils and biota
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Photosynthetic pathways and δ13C signatures of plants
- 3: Mixing models
- 4: In situ SOM turnover due to a known change in vegetation cover
- 5: Soil profile indicators of a presumed change in vegetation and/or climate
- 6: Contribution of organic materials to the soil organic C pool
- 7: Relative contributions of C3 and C4 sources to diet
- 8: Relative proportions of roots of mixed C3 and C4 species
- 9: Relative contribution of two carbon sources to respiration
- 10: Conclusions
- Chapter Three: The effect of elemental sulfur fertilization on plant yields and soil properties
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Review of literature
- 3: Research aims
- 4: Materials and methods
- 5: Research results and discussion
- 6: Conclusions
- Chapter Four: Environmentally friendly agronomically superior alternatives to chemically processed phosphate fertilizers: Phosphate rock/sulfur/Acidithiobacillus sp. combinations
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Chemically processed fertilizers
- 3: PR/SO/Acidithiobacillus sp. combinations
- 4: Biochemistry of PR acidulation in PR/SO/Cult and PR/SO
- 5: Source of Acidithiobacilli sp. bacteria
- 6: Factors that affect the dissolution of PR in PR/So/Cult and PR/So
- 7: Agronomic evaluation of PR/SO/Cult combinations
- 8: Use of low-grade PRs
- 9: The nature of P release from PR/So/Cult
- 10: Use of PR/So/Cult for organic farms
- 11: PR/So/Cult as a sulfur fertilizer
- 12: Industrial-scale production of PR/So/Cult
- 13: Production benefits of PR/So/Cult fertilizers
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Model search and use in meta-analysis of fertilizer trials
- Chapter Five: Automation in drip irrigation for enhancing water use efficiency in cereal systems of South Asia: Status and prospects
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Water in agriculture: Present and future scenarios
- 3: Current status of water management in agriculture: Tools and techniques
- 4: Scheduling for drip irrigation systems
- 5: Designing automated drip irrigation systems
- 6: Artificial intelligence-based automated irrigation system
- 7: Examples of automated drip irrigation systems in cereal systems of South Asia
- 8: Conclusions
- 9: The way forward
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 167
- Published: April 29, 2021
- No. of pages (Hardback): 318
- No. of pages (eBook): 318
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128245880
- eBook ISBN: 9780323850759
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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