Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment
Title | Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Dietrich Werner |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2006-01-20 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1402035446 |
Sustainability has a major part to play in the global challenge of continued development of regions, countries, and continents all around the World and biological nitrogen fixation has a key role in this process. This volume begins with chapters specifically addressing crops of major global importance, such as soybeans, rice, and sugar cane. It continues with a second important focus, agroforestry, and describes the use and promise of both legume trees with their rhizobial symbionts and other nitrogen-fixing trees with their actinorhizal colonization. An over-arching theme of all chapters is the interaction of the plants and trees with microbes and this theme allows other aspects of soil microbiology, such as interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the impact of soil-stress factors on biological nitrogen fixation, to be addressed. Furthermore, a link to basic science occurs through the inclusion of chapters describing the biogeochemically important nitrogen cycle and its key relationships among nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification. The volume then provides an up-to-date view of the production of microbial inocula, especially those for legume crops.
Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment
Title | Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | D. Werner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2005 |
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Biological Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment
Title | Biological Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Yi-Ping Wang |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2006-01-30 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1402035705 |
The 14th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress was held in Beijing, China from October 27th through November 1st, 2004. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Congress and represents a compilation of the presentations by scientists from more than 30 countries around the World who came to Beijing to discuss the progress made since the last Congress and to exchange ideas and information. This year marked the 30th anniversary of the first Congress held in Pullman, Washington, USA, in 1974. Since then, this series of Congresses has met five times in North America (three in the United States and once each in Canada and Mexico), once in South America (Brazil), four times in Western Europe (once each in Spain, The Netherlands, Germany and France), once in Eastern Europe (Russia), and once in Australia; and now for the first time in Asia. China was a most appropriate choice because China is a big country with the largest population in the World, about 1. 3 billion people, which is about 22% of the World’s population. It is traditionally an agricultural country, even though China has only 7% of the available farming land. This situation explains why agriculture and its productivity are major issues for the Chinese people, its government and the scientists in the field.
Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment
Title | Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Dietrich Werner |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2005-10-24 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9781402035425 |
Sustainability has a major part to play in the global challenge of continued development of regions, countries, and continents all around the World and biological nitrogen fixation has a key role in this process. This volume begins with chapters specifically addressing crops of major global importance, such as soybeans, rice, and sugar cane. It continues with a second important focus, agroforestry, and describes the use and promise of both legume trees with their rhizobial symbionts and other nitrogen-fixing trees with their actinorhizal colonization. An over-arching theme of all chapters is the interaction of the plants and trees with microbes and this theme allows other aspects of soil microbiology, such as interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the impact of soil-stress factors on biological nitrogen fixation, to be addressed. Furthermore, a link to basic science occurs through the inclusion of chapters describing the biogeochemically important nitrogen cycle and its key relationships among nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification. The volume then provides an up-to-date view of the production of microbial inocula, especially those for legume crops.
Biological nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems: foundations and applications
Title | Biological nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems: foundations and applications PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Gordon |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9400968787 |
Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture
Title | Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | Felix D. Dakora |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2008-06-26 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1402082525 |
Poverty is a severe problem in Africa, Asia, South America and even in pockets of the developed world. Addressing poverty alleviation via the expanded use of biological nitrogen fixation in agriculture was the theme of the 15th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation. Because nitrogen-fixation research is multidisciplinary, exploiting its benefits for agriculture and environmental protection has continued to attract research by diverse groups of scientists, including chemists, biochemists, plant physiologists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, agricultural scientists, extension agents, and inoculant producers. The 15th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation was held jointly with the 12th International Conference of the African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. This joint Congress was hosted in South Africa at the Cape Town International Conv- tion Centre, 21–26 January 2007, and was attended by about 200 registered participants from 41 countries world-wide. During the Congress, some 100 oral and approximately 80 poster papers were presented. The wide range of topics covered and the theme of the Congress justifies this book’s title, Nitrogen Fixation: Applications to Poverty Alleviation.
The Ecology of the Nitrogen Cycle
Title | The Ecology of the Nitrogen Cycle PDF eBook |
Author | Janet I. Sprent |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1987-12-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521310529 |
Many people learn the rudiments of the nitrogen cycle while at school, but the details of the various processes in the cycle are still not widely understood. Some of them are of great current interest, such as the use of nitrogen fixing crops to feed an increasing world population and the problems of pollution of groundwaters by nitrates. Denitrification (forming nitrogen gas) as a way of getting rid of waste from human and intensively farmed animals. This book describes the general processes of the nitrogen cycle, then gives examples of how the cycle is modified under particular ecological and geographical conditions. These examples are drawn from all the major areas of the world, and the impact of man via agriculture, forestry and fuel combustion is discussed. Numerous references are included. The book provides a background for all those whose specialist interests interact with nitrogen cycling, whether they are involved in research or have responsibility for managing the environment.