Achieving sustainable crop nutrition / edited by Zed Rengel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rengel, Zdenko, editor.

Series:

Burleigh Dodds series in agricultural science ; 76.

Burleigh Dodds series in agricultural science ; 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fertilizers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (843 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

"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 optimise nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and reduce fertiliser use. Chapters summarise research on the primary macronutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They also discuss secondary macronutrients and micronutrients including: calcium, magnesium, zinc, boron, manganese and molybdenum. The final two parts of the book review research on fertiliser application. 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 and organic amendments"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Series

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Contents

Series list

Introduction

Part 1 Primary macronutrients: nitrogen

1 Advances in understanding the nitrogen cycle in crop production

1 Introduction

2 Inputs of nitrogen to agricultural ecosystems

3 Uptake of nitrogen by plants

4 Losses of nitrogen from agricultural ecosystems

5 Overall consideration of nitrogen supply and loss

6 Case study: the nitrogen cycle in wheat crops

7 Future trends and conclusion

8 Where to look for further information

9 Where to look for further information

2 Advances in understanding uptake and utilization of nitrogen in wheat

2 Forms of plant-available nitrogen and the role of nitrogen

3 Definitions of nitrogen-use efficiency and its components

4 Agronomic improvement of nitrogen-use efficiency

5 Genetic trends in relation to nitrogen-use efficiency

6 Physiological traits for improving nitrogen-use efficiency

7 High-throughput phenotyping for nitrogen-use efficiency

8 Conclusion

10 References

3 Advances in optimising nitrogen-use efficiency in crop production

2 Some definitions of nitrogen-use efficiency

3 Nitrogen demand and supply

4 Practices to increase nitrogen-use efficiency

5 Nitrogen overuse

6 Conclusion

7 Acknowledgement

9 References

Part 2 Primary macronutrients: phosphorus

4 Advances in understanding crop use of phosphorus

2 The concept of the P-replete plant

3 Improving P-use efficiency

4 Limitations of P availability at the soil root interface

5 Response to a lack of P

6 Trade-offs between traits

7 Working towards a crop ideotype for efficient P use

8 Conclusion and future trends.

9 Acknowledgements

10 Where to look for further information

11 References

5 Advances in understanding the environmental effects of phosphorus fertilization

2 Cycling, fate and transport of phosphorus in agriculture

3 Remedial measures

4 Legacies of past management

5 Conclusion and future trends

6 Acknowledgements

7 References

6 Enhancing phosphorus-use efficiency in crop production

2 Phosphorus-use efficiency

3 Soil factors

4 Plant factors

5 Management factors

6 Conclusion and future trends

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Part 3 Primary macronutrients: potassium

7 Advances in understanding the potassium cycle in crop production

2 Potassium in plants

3 Potassium in soils

4 Soil potassium cycle

5 Potassium in farming systems

6 Potassium fertilizers

7 Potassium modelling

8 Future trends

9 Conclusion

8 Potassium in crop physiology

1 The vital functions of potassium in plants

2 Soil potassium phytoavailability and supply to crops

3 The molecular biology of potassium uptake and redistribution in plants

4 Potassium requirements of crops

5 Symptoms of potassium deficiency in plants

6 Acclimatory responses of plants to low potassium supply

7 Breeding crops with increased potassium use efficiency

8 Future trends and conclusion

9 Acknowledgements

9 Advances in optimizing potassium-use efficiency in crop production

2 Potassium dynamics in soils

3 Potassium fertilizer use

4 Assessing potassium-use efficiency (KUE)

5 Improving potassium-use efficiency through breeding

6 Partitioning of potassium to reproductive plant organs.

7 Fertilizer management to improve potassium-use efficiency

8 Crop management strategies

Part 4 Secondary macronutrients and micronutrients

10 Secondary macronutrients: advances in understanding calcium cycling in soils, uptake/use by plants and ways of optimizing calcium-use efficiency in crop production

2 Calcium in soils

3 Calcium in plants

4 Efficient use of calcium in agriculture

5 Conclusion

6 Where to look for further information

11 The effect of soil organic matter on plant mineral nutrition

2 The main mechanisms involved in the beneficial action of humic substances on plant mineral nutrition: the complexing and biochemical pathways

3 A possible signalling crosstalk between the biochemical and complexing pathways

4 Conclusions

5 Acknowledgements

12 Advances in understanding iron cycling in soils, uptake/use by plants and ways of optimising iron-use efficiency in crop production

2 Status and forms of iron in soil

3 Iron solubility in soil

4 Factors affecting availability of iron in soils

5 Roles, deficiency and toxicity of iron

6 Estimating iron content in soils and plants

7 Iron uptake strategies by crops

8 Strategies for optimizing iron-use efficiency

10 Future trends

11 Where to look for further information

12 References

13 Current advances in zinc in soils and plants: implications for zinc efficiency and biofortification studies

2 Global importance of Zn nutrition and Zn-deficiency stress

3 Zn cycling in soil and root uptake traits to increase transport

4 Natural variation in Zn efficiency among crop genotypes

5 Zn in crop production and biofortification.

6 Conclusion and future trends

14 Advances in understanding boron cycling in soils, uptake/use by plants and ways of optimizing boron use efficiency in crop production

2 Boron chemistry

3 Boron occurrence in soils and availability

4 Functions of boron in plants

5 Boron uptake and transport

6 Assessing the boron status in soils and plants

7 Boron fertilization

8 Conclusion and future trends

15 Micronutrients: advances in understanding manganese cycling in soils, acquisition by plants and ways of optimizing manganese efficiency in crops

2 Manganese in soil and rhizosphere

3 Manganese uptake and translocation

4 Manganese functions

5 Symptoms of manganese deficiency and toxicity

6 Manganese efficiency

7 Remediation of manganese deficiency

8 Outlook/perspectives

16 Micronutrients: advances in understanding molybdenum in crop production

2 Importance of Mo in plant nutrition

3 Advances in understanding Mo cycling in soils and plants

4 Mo uptake by plants, movement into cells, and biosynthesis of Moco

5 Optimizing Mo-use efficiency in crop production

6 Plant Mo requirements

7 Methods of Mo application

Part 5 Optimising fertilizer use

17 Advances in assessing nutrient availability in soils

2 Key factors controlling nutrient availability in soil

3 Methods for assessing nutrient availability in soil

4 Alternative methods for soil analyses

7 References.

18 Advances in integrated plant nutrient management

2 Increasing crop productivity through IPNM

3 Improving sustainability of crop production systems by following IPNM

4 IPNM for improving/maintaining soil health

5 IPNM and global warming potential due to emission of nitrous oxide

6 ISFM as a variant of IPNM in SSA

7 Conclusion and future trends

19 Developments in the use of fertilizers

2 Nutrient pollution and resource depletion

3 Achieving more sustainable use of fertilizers

4 Developments in nitrogen fertilizers

5 Developments in phosphorus fertilizers

6 Developments in potassium fertilizers

7 Developments in sulfur fertilizers

8 Developments in calcium, magnesium, and micronutrient fertilizers

9 Case study

10 Conclusion and future trends

20 Bio-effectors to optimize the mineral nutrition of crop plants

2 Defining 'bio-effectors' and other key terms

3 Bacillus species

4 Pseudomonas species

5 Trichoderma species

6 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

7 Synergies between bio-effectors

8 Improving bio-effector functionality

9 Case study: the BioFector Project

10 Conclusions

21 Advances in fertigation techniques to optimize crop nutrition

2 The right rate at the right time: nutrient consumption curves and supply

3 Irrigation frequency

4 The right place: water, salt, nutrient and root development under irrigation

5 The right source: fertilizer type and source

6 Models and decision support tools for design, operation and optimization of fertigation systems

7 Case studies

9 Future trends

10 References.

22 Advances in foliar fertilizers to optimize crop nutrition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78676-314-1

1-78676-315-X

1-000-72712-2

1-000-72740-8