Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems
2nd Edition
Published on 6. July 2001
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-85199-417-8 (ISBN)
Description
Nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants is especially important when farmers are trying to minimise fertilizer use for cost or environmental reasons. This second edition of the highly successful book, first published in 1991, contains thoroughly updated and revised material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
975 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85199-417-8 (9780851994178)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
1: Tropical Environments: Climates, Soils and Cropping Systems 2: N2-fixing Organisms in the Tropics 3: The Process of Nitrogen Fixation 4: Assessment of the Role of Nitrogen Fixation 5: Cycling of Fixed N2 in Tropical Cropping Systems 6: Cereal Crops and Grasses: Free-living, Root Associated and Endophytic Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria 7: Cyanobacteria and Azolla as Green Manure for Wetland Rice 8: Grain Legumes for Food, Fodder and Soil Fertility 9: Legumes as Green Manures and Cover Crops 10: Forage Legumes in Pastures and Leys 11: Plantation Crops: Understorey Legumes and Shade Trees 12: Agroforestry: Nitrogen Fixing Trees in Integrated Agriculture 13: Environmental Constraints to Nitrogen Fixation 14: Approaches to Enhancing N2-fixation 15: Future Impacts of N2-fixation in Tropical Agriculture