Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production
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978-3-031-00342-4 (ISBN)
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The concept is that plant growth is often restricted by adverse physical and chemical properties of subsoils yet these limitations are not revealed by testing surface soils and hence their significance in crop management is often overlooked.
The major constraints can be physical or chemical. The physical limitations comprise: poor/nil subsoil structure or dense pans so roots can not penetrate subsoil; very sandy subsoils that do not provide adequate water or very gravelly subsoils and; high water table, etc.
Chemical constraints include acidity/alkalinity, high extractable Al or Mn, low nutrient availability, salts, boron toxicity and pyritic subsoils.
Some of these constraints are inherent properties of the soil profile while others are induced by crop and soil management practices.
For all these constraints the emphasis within chapters is on defining the constraint, and discussing amelioration practices and benefits.
The major constraints can be physical or chemical. The physical limitations comprise: poor/nil subsoil structure or dense pans so roots can not penetrate subsoil; very sandy subsoils that do not provide adequate water or very gravelly subsoils and; high water table, etc.
Chemical constraints include acidity/alkalinity, high extractable Al or Mn, low nutrient availability, salts, boron toxicity and pyritic subsoils.
Some of these constraints are inherent properties of the soil profile while others are induced by crop and soil management practices.
For all these constraints the emphasis within chapters is on defining the constraint, and discussing amelioration practices and benefits.
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Edition
1st ed. 2022
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Approx. 300 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-031-00342-4 (9783031003424)
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Teogenes Oliveira is currently a Professor at the Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil, having worked for several years at the Federal University of Ceara, where he continues to run a Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resources. His academic and scientific work is in the area of Soil Science, focusing especially on the study of soil and water management and conservation and agroecology, with emphasis on the management of soil organic matter and residues and their role in the quality of the soil and the environment. He also develops academic and scientific activities that seek to evaluate the consequences of intensive soil use, together with the design and evaluation of more environmentally balanced agricultural systems, made possible through the understanding and application of concepts for reinforcing ecological processes and relationships. His expertise in the Brazilian semi-arid region has helped in generating data and in training people to work with both high and low external-input cultivation systems: irrigated systems, mixed cropping (agroforestry) systems, organic, and minimum tillage systems, all with a view to strengthening ecological processes and relationships. He has published 110 refereed journal papers, 18 book chapters and articles in proceedings, and edited 6 books.
Richard Bell, who has been Professor of Land Management at Murdoch University since 2007, is a specialist in soil fertility and crop management with lecturing and research experience in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. His interests are in management and fertility constraints associated with sandy, acid, salt-affected and degraded soils; nutrient cycling in farmland, rehabilitated land and forests; rehabilitation of degraded land; sustainable agricultural systems; Conservation Agriculture, and research for agricultural development. He has authored 222 refereed journal papers, 101 book chapters and articles in proceedings, and edited 15 books. Much of his published work has concerned the mineral nutrition of crop and plants and cropping systems intensification for smallholder farms. He has led and collaborated on international projects in Thailand (1984-89), China (1992-97), Cambodia (2004-present), Bangladesh (2006-present), Vietnam (2007-2019), India (2015-present) and Laos (2017-present). He has supervised 70 PhD and MSc students.
Richard Bell, who has been Professor of Land Management at Murdoch University since 2007, is a specialist in soil fertility and crop management with lecturing and research experience in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. His interests are in management and fertility constraints associated with sandy, acid, salt-affected and degraded soils; nutrient cycling in farmland, rehabilitated land and forests; rehabilitation of degraded land; sustainable agricultural systems; Conservation Agriculture, and research for agricultural development. He has authored 222 refereed journal papers, 101 book chapters and articles in proceedings, and edited 15 books. Much of his published work has concerned the mineral nutrition of crop and plants and cropping systems intensification for smallholder farms. He has led and collaborated on international projects in Thailand (1984-89), China (1992-97), Cambodia (2004-present), Bangladesh (2006-present), Vietnam (2007-2019), India (2015-present) and Laos (2017-present). He has supervised 70 PhD and MSc students.
Content
Content
Preface
List of Contributors
Table of Contents
1. Chapter 1: Introduction to subsoil constraints for crop production
By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira* and Richard Willian Bell*
2. Chapter 2: The geological, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological background of Tropical Regoliths and hostile subsoils: The Brazilian landmass
By Carlos Ernesto Goncalves Reynaud Schaefer*, Jose Joao Lelis Leal de Souza, Fabio Soares de Oliveira, Guilherme Resende Correa and Elpidio Inacio Fernandes Filho
3. Chapter 3: Soil acidity and acidification
By Clayton Robert Butterly*, Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado and Caixian Tang
4. Chapter 4: Salinity, Sodicity and Alkalinity
By Pichu Rengasamy*, Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda and Hans Raj Gheyi
5. Chapter 5: Pyritic subsoils in acid sulfate soils and similar problems in mined areas with sulfidic rocks
By Jose Joao Lelis Leal de Souza* and Walter Antonio Pereira Abrahao
6. Chapter 6: Physical subsoil constraints of agricultural and forestry land
By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira* and Raphael Braganca Alves Fernandes
7. Chapter 7: Subsoil and surface soil constraints of mined land and tailings
By Hwat Bing So*, Ivo Ribeiro da Silva, Lucas Carvalho Gomes and Teogenes Senna de Oliveira
8. Chapter 8: Sand and gravel subsoils
By Craig A. Scanlan*, Karen W. Holmes and Richard W. Bell
9. Chapter 9: Soilborne pathogens
By Andrea Bittencourt Moura*, David Backhouse, Ismail Teodoro de Souza Junior and Cesar Bauer Gomes
10. Chapter 10: Root systems of agricultural crops and their response to physical and chemical subsoil constraints
By Mirian Cristina Gomes Costa* and Italo Antonio Cotta Coutinho
11. Chapter 11: Roots and beneficial interactions with soil microbes
By Bruno Coutinho Moreira, Paulo Prates Junior, Bernard Dell and Maria Catarina Megumi Kasuya*
12. Chapter 12: Nutrient acquisition with particular reference to subsoil constraints
By Qifu Ma*, Richard Willian Bell and Edson Marcio Mattiello
13. Chapter 13: Water acquisition by roots from the subsoil: impact of physical constraints on the dynamics of water capture
By Wendy H Vance* and Stephen P Milroy
14. Chapter 14: Deep soil carbon - characteristics and measurement with particular bearing on kaolinitic profiles
By Podjanee Sangmanee, Bernard Dell, David Henry and Richard Harper*
15. Chapter 15: Live subsoils: tropical regolith and biota interactions
By Carlos Ernesto Goncalves Reynaud Schaefer and Fabio Soares de Oliveira
16. Chapter 16: Subsoil constraints for crop production: recent advances, new technologies and priorities for further research
By Richard Willian Bell* and Teogenes Senna de Oliveira*
Index
Preface
List of Contributors
Table of Contents
1. Chapter 1: Introduction to subsoil constraints for crop production
By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira* and Richard Willian Bell*
2. Chapter 2: The geological, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological background of Tropical Regoliths and hostile subsoils: The Brazilian landmass
By Carlos Ernesto Goncalves Reynaud Schaefer*, Jose Joao Lelis Leal de Souza, Fabio Soares de Oliveira, Guilherme Resende Correa and Elpidio Inacio Fernandes Filho
3. Chapter 3: Soil acidity and acidification
By Clayton Robert Butterly*, Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado and Caixian Tang
4. Chapter 4: Salinity, Sodicity and Alkalinity
By Pichu Rengasamy*, Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda and Hans Raj Gheyi
5. Chapter 5: Pyritic subsoils in acid sulfate soils and similar problems in mined areas with sulfidic rocks
By Jose Joao Lelis Leal de Souza* and Walter Antonio Pereira Abrahao
6. Chapter 6: Physical subsoil constraints of agricultural and forestry land
By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira* and Raphael Braganca Alves Fernandes
7. Chapter 7: Subsoil and surface soil constraints of mined land and tailings
By Hwat Bing So*, Ivo Ribeiro da Silva, Lucas Carvalho Gomes and Teogenes Senna de Oliveira
8. Chapter 8: Sand and gravel subsoils
By Craig A. Scanlan*, Karen W. Holmes and Richard W. Bell
9. Chapter 9: Soilborne pathogens
By Andrea Bittencourt Moura*, David Backhouse, Ismail Teodoro de Souza Junior and Cesar Bauer Gomes
10. Chapter 10: Root systems of agricultural crops and their response to physical and chemical subsoil constraints
By Mirian Cristina Gomes Costa* and Italo Antonio Cotta Coutinho
11. Chapter 11: Roots and beneficial interactions with soil microbes
By Bruno Coutinho Moreira, Paulo Prates Junior, Bernard Dell and Maria Catarina Megumi Kasuya*
12. Chapter 12: Nutrient acquisition with particular reference to subsoil constraints
By Qifu Ma*, Richard Willian Bell and Edson Marcio Mattiello
13. Chapter 13: Water acquisition by roots from the subsoil: impact of physical constraints on the dynamics of water capture
By Wendy H Vance* and Stephen P Milroy
14. Chapter 14: Deep soil carbon - characteristics and measurement with particular bearing on kaolinitic profiles
By Podjanee Sangmanee, Bernard Dell, David Henry and Richard Harper*
15. Chapter 15: Live subsoils: tropical regolith and biota interactions
By Carlos Ernesto Goncalves Reynaud Schaefer and Fabio Soares de Oliveira
16. Chapter 16: Subsoil constraints for crop production: recent advances, new technologies and priorities for further research
By Richard Willian Bell* and Teogenes Senna de Oliveira*
Index