| Achieving Sustainable Crop Nutrition Contributor(s): Rengel, Zed (Editor), Pilbeam, David (Contribution by), Nehe, Ajit S. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1786763125 ISBN-13: 9781786763129 Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: February 2020 Click for more in this series: Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Science |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Agronomy - Crop Science |
| LCCN: 2019951748 |
| Series: Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Science |
| Physical Information: 1.75" H x 6" W x 9" L (2.80 lbs) 830 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This collection reviews current research on understanding nutrient cycles, the ways crops process nutrients, the environmental effects of fertilizer use and how this understanding can be used to improve nutrient use efficiency for a more resource-efficient and climate-smart agriculture. Parts 1-3 summarise research on the primary macronutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Chapters review what we know about nutrient cycles, crop nutrient processing, potential environmental effects and ways of optimising nutrient use efficiency (NUE). The fourth section of the book discusses secondary macronutrients and micronutrients including: calcium, iron, zinc, boron, manganese and molybdenum as well as soil organic matter. The final part of the book reviews research on optimising fertiliser use. Chapters cover topics such as assessing nutrient availability and advances in integrated plant nutrient management. Other chapters discuss enhanced efficiency fertilisers, the use of bio-effectors/bio-stimulants, fertigation techniques, foliar fertilizers and the use of treated wastes in crop nutrition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Angus, John: - John Angus graduated B. Agr. Sc. and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He worked as a Research Scientist at CSIRO Canberra from 1973 until 2010, with visiting scientist positions at the International Rice Research Institute and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science along the way. After retirement he remains an honorary fellow at CSIRO and is also an adjunct professor at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. He is a fellow of the Australian and American Societies of Agronomy and has served as President of the Agronomy Australia. He was the 2006 recipient of the Australian Medal of Agricultural Science and the 2019 recipient of the Colin Donald medal of Agronomy Australia . His scientific interests are the efficiency of water and nitrogen cycles and how crop and pasture sequences affect the productivity and sustainability of dryland farming systems. He runs a farm in Stockinbingal, with his wife, Patricia. The farm produces wheat, barley, canola and pulses on half the arable area, rotating with perennial pastures that produce fine merino wool and crossbred lambs on the other half. Ten percent of the farm area is remnant vegetation.Rengel, Zed: - Dr Zed Rengel is Professor of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at the University of Western Australia. An internationally-renowned expert on plant nutrition, Professor Rengel is co Editor-in-Chief of Crop and Pasture Science, Editor of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Journal of Botany, Associate Editor of Crop Science and the Journal of Plant Physiology, as well as being on the editorial board of several other journals. He has published 7 books and over 300 articles, has held a number of Honorary and Visiting Professorships and been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His h-index (Hirsch index showing the n papers that have been cited at least n times) is 76 (Google Scholar) or 58 (Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science). |
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