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Advances in Agronomy
- 1st Edition, Volume 188 - September 11, 2024
- Editor: Donald L. Sparks
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 5 3 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 5 3 3 - 1
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 188, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, each writte… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Agronomy, Volume 188, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, each 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
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One The history of soil and human health
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Past history of relations between soil and human health
- 3 Therapeutic uses of soil
- 4 Trace elements
- 5 Soil microbiology
- 6 Soil pollution
- 7 History of the analysis of soil and human health data
- 8 Looking to the future
- 9 Concluding comments
- References
- Web sites
- Chapter Two Potential of Indian agriculture for capturing atmospheric CO2 and monetizing carbon credits to the farmers: An overview and policy framework
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The carbon credit program in India
- 3 Field-level issues and carbon management strategies to achieve carbon credit program
- 4 Agronomic and innovative technological advances for carbon farming
- 5 Crop diversification to enhance carbon sink in cropping systems
- 6 Technological approaches to improve inputs use efficiency and reduce carbon footprints
- 7 Enhancing energy and water use efficiency to reduce footprints
- 8 Methodological approaches for calculating carbon credits from soil
- 9 Methodological approaches for calculating carbon credits from various agroecosystems
- 10 Need to implement government schemes to provide carbon incentives to farmers
- 11 Role of the industrial sector in purchasing the carbon credit from the farmers
- 12 Modus operandi of carbon credit programs for farmers
- 13 Monetising carbon credits for farmers’ benefit
- 14 Challenges and solutions of carbon farming-based carbon credits
- 15 Private sector contributions to carbon credit initiatives in Indian agriculture
- 16 Roadmap for enhancing the carbon credits in Indian farming
- 17 Policy framework
- 18 Future perspective
- 19 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Three Crop diversification in rainfed lowland rice ecosystems in tropical Asia
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction: Rainfed lowland rice cropping systems
- 2 Crop growing environments in different rainfed lowland rice regions
- 3 Growing non-rice crops after harvesting rainfed lowland rice in South Asia
- 4 Non-rice crops in islands of SE Asia
- 5 Non-rice crops in mainland SE Asia region
- 6 Pathways to crop diversification for increased productivity from rainfed lowland rice fields
- References
- Chapter Four Plant stress phenotyping: Current status and future prospects
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Phenomics: A robust tool for plant stress phenotyping
- 3 High-throughput phenomics platforms and technological interventions
- 4 Artificial intelligence and remote sensing integration for plant stress phenotyping
- 5 Future prospects and conclusion
- References
- Chapter Five The expanding field of pedology
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Soil science or pedology
- 3 Pedography, pedosphere, pedogenesis, ped
- 4 Pedology and climate
- 5 Pedology and organisms
- 6 Pedology and relief
- 7 Pedology and parent material
- 8 Pedology and time
- 9 Other fields of pedology
- 10 Discussion
- Epilog
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Six Linking structure and functions in agricultural soils
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The mutual interaction of structure and function in agricultural soils
- 3 Quantification of soil structure
- 4 Modeling structure–function relations
- 5 Modeling soil structure dynamics
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Seven The supramolecular structure of the soil humeome and the significance of humification
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The supramolecular structure of soil humus “then and now”
- 3 The Humeomics and the rise of the soil humeome
- 4 The significance of humification
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 484
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 188
- Published: September 11, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443295324
- eBook ISBN: 9780443295331
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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