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Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 184 - February 1, 2024
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 5 2 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 5 2 5 - 6
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 184, 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 184, 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, with this new release including new chapters on The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Crop Improvement, Dealing with the Impact of Climate Change-Induced Drought on the Management of Soil, Challenges and Emerging Opportunities of Weed Management in Organic Agriculture, The Broadbalk Wheat Experiment, Rothamsted, UK: Crop Yields and Soil Changes During the Last 50 Years.
- 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
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One The role of artificial intelligence in crop improvement
- Abstract
- Graphical abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Types of AI
- 3 AI applications in crop improvement
- 4 Future of AI for crop improvement
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two Dealing with the impact of climate change-induced drought on the management of soil salinity under irrigated agriculture
- Abstract
- Highlights
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Field-scale soil salinity mapping
- 3 Leaching requirement
- 4 Plant salt tolerance
- 5 Site-specific management
- 6 Degraded water reuse where soil salinity is a primary concern
- 7 Site-specific micro-irrigation management
- 8 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Three Challenges and emerging opportunities for weed management in organic agriculture
- Abstract
- 1 Background
- 2 Organic weed management issues
- 3 Emerging opportunities of weed management in organic systems
- References
- Chapter Four The Broadbalk Wheat Experiment, Rothamsted, UK: Crop yields and soil changes during the last 50 years
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Historical background
- 3 Layout of the experiment, treatments and management
- 4 Results
- 5 Sample and data archive
- 6 Broadbalk as a scientific resource
- 7 The future
- 8 Conclusions
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 184
- Published: February 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443295249
- eBook ISBN: 9780443295256
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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, USA