Boron in Soils and Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Boron Responses in Field Crops

   1. The problem of boron deficiency in crop production in Bangladesh

      • Sultana Ahmed, M. B. Hossain

      Pages 1-5

   2. Effects of boron, potassium, sulfur, magnesium application on rapeseed and mulberry yield and quality

      • F. Chen, J. W. Lu, Y. F. Wan, D. B. Liu, Y. S. Xu

      Pages 7-9

   3. A foliar boron nutrition and insecticide program for soybean

      • Gary J. Gascho, Robert M. McPherson

      Pages 11-15

   4. Soil Boron Content and the Effects of Boron Application on Yields of Maize, Soybean, Rice and Sugarbeet in Heilongjiang Province, P R China

      • Yiying Li, Hong Liang

      Pages 17-21

   5. Sunflower response to boron as affected by liming

      • E. C. A. Souza, C. A. Rosolem, E. L. M. Coutinho

      Pages 23-27

   6. Covering plants at night in the winter increased seed yield of transplanted oilseed rape (Brassica napus L. cv. Zheyouyou 2) on a low boron soil

      • Zhengqian Ye, R. W. Bell, Longbin Huang, Yuai Yang, B. Dell

      Pages 29-34

   7. Effects of boron and iron on yield and yield components of wheat

      • K. Zada, M. Afzal

      Pages 35-37

3. Residual Effects of Boron Fertilizer Application

   1. Flue gas desulfurization residue: a boron source for alfalfa production

      • R. H. Dowdy, J. J. Sloan, G. W. Rehm, M. S. Dolan

      Pages 39-42

   2. Long-term field experiment on the application of slow-release boron fertilizer Part 1 Effect of boron on crop growth

      • Susumu Eguchi, Yoshio Yamada

      Pages 43-48

   3. Long-term field experiment on the application of slow-release boron fertilizer Part 2 Behavior of boron in the soil

      • Susumu Eguchi, Yoshio Yamada

      Pages 49-56

   4. The influence of boron fertilizer on distribution of extractable boron in soil profiles in rape-rice rotations in southeast China

      • K. Wang, J. M. Xu, Y. Z. Wei, Y. A. Yang, R. W. Bell

      Pages 57-61

4. Methods and Procedures of Boron Determination in Plants and Soils

   1. Boron analysis at different stages of the cell cycle in cultured tobacco cells

      • H. Iikura, T. Kataoka, M. Tamada, T. M. Nakanishi, C. Yonezawa

      Pages 63-67

   2. Analysis by Prompt Gamma-Ray Method with Cold Neutrons of Boron and Other Elements in Soybean

      • T. M. Nakanishi, H. Iikura, T. Kataoka, M. Tamada, J. Furukawa, C. Yonezawa

      Pages 69-72

   3. Total boron determination in silicate material with azomethine-H, after extraction with boron specific resin

      • Rui R. Vale

      Pages 73-75

   4. An improved procedure for the extraction of plant available soil boron

      • Youzhang Wei, B. A. Zarcinas

      Pages 77-81

5. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Boron Deficientcy

   1. Boron nutrition of radiata pine plantations in Australia

      • Marcia J. Lambert, John Turner, Jim Knott

      Pages 83-88

   2. Diagnosis and prognosis of boron deficiency in black gram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper) in the field by using plant analysis

      • R. N. Noppakoonwong, B. Rerkasem, R. W. Bell, B. Dell, J. F. Loneragan

      Pages 89-93

   3. Diagnosis and alleviation of boron deficiency causing flower and pod abortion in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) in Nepal

      • S. P. Srivastava, C. R. Yadav, T. J. Rego, C. Johansen, N. P. Saxena

      Pages 95-99

6. Boron X Genotypes Interactions

   1. Screening wheat for boron efficiency

      • P. Anantawiroon, K. D. Subedi, B. Rerkasem

      Pages 101-104

The economic significance of boron (B) in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry has been beyond dispute for several decades. Even in the last two decades, the areas where B deficiency limits plant production has grown with increased reports from China, south Asia and southeast Asia. The present volume is reflective of the growing awareness of the significance of low soil B with reports from Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, north, central and southern China, India, Nepal, and the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan contained herein. Boron deficiency also continues to be a problem for crop yield and quality in areas where B deficiency has been known for some time, for example in Germany and the USA. The problem of low soil B is not limited to effects on field crop yield, with papers reporting on depressed wood yield and quality in timber trees (Lambert et al. ), and depressed fruit quality (Dong et al. ; Smith et al. : Zude et al. ) also appearing in the present volume. Globally, Shorrocks (1997)1 estimates that ?? tonnes of B fertiliser is applied annually in agriculture. The economic benefits from the use of B fertiliser have not been quantified but are clearly enormous. Paradoxically, the clear economic imperatives for using B fertiliser on low B soils are not matched by a similar clarity of understanding of the role and functions of B in plants.

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• environment
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`Considering its multi-author nature, this book is well laid out and illustrated. It will certainly be attractive to those interested in this fascinating element.'
Plant Growth Regulation, 26:1 (1998)

• School of Environmental Science, Division of Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia

  R. W. Bell

• Multiple Cropping Centre, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  B. Rerkasem

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