Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 169 - June 15, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 5 9 0 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 0 3 8 - 4
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 169, 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 169, 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: Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Concepts of soil salinity and salinity management
- 3: Soil salinity modeling and measurements
- 4: Priority 1: Need for soil salinity mapping
- 5: Priority 2: Application of remote sensing to detect and map soil salinity
- 6: Priority 3: Improved soil salinity management practices
- 7: Priority 4: Soil salinity management using precision irrigation
- 8: Priority 5: Re-assessment of crop salt tolerance
- 9: Priority 6: Improved understanding of the combined and interactive effects of crop drought and salinity stress
- 10: Priority 7: Need for broader understanding of physiological mechanisms for adaptation to saline soils
- 11: Priority 8: Plant breeders need genes proven for salt tolerance without yield penalty
- 12: Priority 9: Salinity and sodicity effects on soil physical properties
- 13: Priority 10: Limitations and opportunities of using non-conventional water sources for irrigation
- 14: Additional soil salinity research needs
- 15: Case studies
- 16: Challenges, knowledge gaps and recommendations
- Chapter Two: Pathways of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons assimilation by plants growing in contaminated soils
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Properties of PAHS
- 3: PAHS in soils and plants
- 4: Numerical models of PAH assimilation in plants
- 5: Direct observation of PAH transport in plants
- 6: Bioconcentration factors for PAHS in plants grown in contaminated soils
- 7: Statistical approaches to analysis of assimilation pathways
- 8: Summary and conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 169
- Published: June 15, 2021
- No. of pages (Hardback): 266
- No. of pages (eBook): 266
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128245903
- eBook ISBN: 9780323850384
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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USARead Advances in Agronomy on ScienceDirect