Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Rice Production

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction Some comments about a better use of biological nitrogen fixation in rice cultivation

   1. Introduction Some comments about a better use of biological nitrogen fixation in rice cultivation

      • J. Balandreau, P. Roger

      Pages 1-12

3. Rhizobia-legume symbiosis, green manuring crops and rice soils

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Rhizobial biofertilizers: the most promising BNF technology for increased grain legume production in Bangladesh

      • M. A. Sattar, A. K. Podder, M. C. Chanda

      Pages 15-20

   3. Effect of heavy metals on legume-Rhizobium symbiosis

      • S. C. Pal

      Pages 21-29

   4. Effect of straw incorporation on soil N-pool in submerged rice

      • L. Van Holm, G. Senviratne, C. Puype, S. Bowatte, U. Ratnayake

      Pages 31-42

   5. The use of organic residues in increasing crop production in a wheat—mungbean—T. Aman cropping system on red-brown terrace soils

      • Delowara Khanam, Hasan Hafizur Rahman, Asadul Haque Bhuiyan, Zaherul Islam, A. K. M. Hossain

      Pages 43-48

   6. Leguminous green manures in rice-based cropping systems

      • Mathias Becker

      Pages 49-50

   7. Use of green manuring crops in rice fields for sustainable production in Bangladesh agriculture

      • N. I. Bhuiyan, S. K. Zaman

      Pages 51-64

   8. Prospect of dhaincha (Sesbania rostrata) intercropping with T. Aus in a T. Aus—T. Aman cropping pattern

      • S. K. Zaman, A. T. M. A. Choudhury, N. I. Bhuiyan

      Pages 65-70

   9. Pedology of the rice soils of Bangladesh

      • S. M. Saheed, M. S. Hussain

      Pages 71-79

4. Azolla—Anabaena association

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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5. Azolla—Anabaena association

   1. Does Azolla have any future in agriculture?

      • C. van Hove, A. Lejeune

      Pages 83-94

   2. Utilization of Azolla in rice production in West Africa: potentials and constraints

      • V. N. Nguyen

      Pages 95-103

   3. Cultivation and uses of Azolla in Egypt

      • A. A. El-Bassel, I. M. Ghazi

      Pages 105-108

   4. Estimation of nitrogen fixation in Azolla—rice association using ¹⁵N isotope dilution

      • Y. G. M. Galal

      Pages 109-116

6. Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Prospect and potentiality of cyanobacteria as an alternative source of nitrogen fertilizer in Bangladesh rice cultivation

      • Z. N. T. Begum, R. Mandal, Zahed U. M. Khan, M. Z. Hossain

      Pages 119-131

   3. Contribution of cyanobacterization to rice growth and performance under different field stand densities and levels of combined nitrogen

      • Y. G. Yanni

      Pages 133-139

   4. Ecological aspects of cyanobacteria from the rice fields of Corrientes (Argentina)

      • Carlos Prosperi, Stella M. Pons, Eugenia Maggi

      Pages 141-146

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) has become important in rice farming systems because this process diminishes the need for expensive chemical fertilizers which have been associated with numerous health and environmental problems. The extensive exploitation of BNF would provide economic benefits to small farmers, avoiding all malign influences of chemical fertilizers.
Meanwhile, advances in biotechnology have brought rice genetics to the threshold of new opportunities for increasing rice production.
This volume focuses, in six different sessions, on the role of BNF in the improvement of rice production in the light of the current state of the art of BNF technology transfer and diffusion. New ideas on BNF technology in research, extension information and inoculant technology are also included, together with the socio-economic impacts of using BNF in rice farm systems.

• Bur
• Flora
• Seed
• algae
• biotechnology
• nitrogen
• phylogeny
• roots
• wheat

• Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, Department of Soil Science, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Mustafizur Rahman

• Soil Microbiology Laboratory, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Mymensingh, Bangladesh

  Ajit Kumar Podder

• Laboratory of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  Charles Hove

• Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Z. N. Tahmida Begum

• LEMIR/DEVM, UMR 163 CNRS-CEA, CEA Cadarache, Saint Paul lez Durance, France

  Thierry Heulin

• GSF-Institute of Soil Ecology, Oberschleissheim, Germany

  Anton Hartmann

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