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- No other available work provides the up-to-date and in-depth coverage of this volume, which is intended to serve as an indispensable reference work for academic, government, and
- industrial scientists
Part of the book series: Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress (NITR, volume 4)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment
Editors: Dietrich Werner, William E. Newton
Series Title: Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3544-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3542-5Published: 24 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6897-2Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3544-9Published: 20 January 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 350
Topics: Agriculture, Biochemistry, general, Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, general, Forestry