Nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems /

• Main Author: Giller, K. E. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Legumes > Tropics.; Nitrogen-fixing plants > Tropics.; Nitrogen > Fixation.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Forage and Fodder Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Nutrition.; Plant Production.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Soil Biology.; Fertilizers and other Amendments.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry.; Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Azolla.; Fabaceae.; Ferns.; Oryza.; Oryza sativa.; Plants.; Agroforestry.; Cover crops.; Cropping systems.; Crops.; Fodder legumes.; Green manures.; Innovation adoption.; Legumes.; Multiple cropping.; Nitrogen fixation.; Nitrogen fixing bacteria.; Nitrogen fixing trees.; Pasture legumes.; Pastures.; Plantation crops.; Plantations.; Rice.; Shade trees.; Trees.; Tropics.; Woody plants.; Electronic books.
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 The second edition of this book, first published in 1991 and intended for students and researchers, contains revised and updated material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems. There are 15 chapters in 3 parts. Part I, Introduction, contains 5 chapters on tropical environments (climate, soils and cropping systems), nitrogen fixing organisms, the process of nitrogen fixation, assessment of the role of nitrogen fixation, and cycling of nitrogen in tropical cropping systems. Part II, Tropical crops and cropping systems, comprises 7 chapters on freeliving, root-associated and endophytic nitrogen fixing bacteria of cereal crops and grasses, cyanobacteria and Azolla as green manure for wetland rice, grain legumes, legumes as green manures and cover crops, forage legumes, understorey legumes and shade trees in plantation crops, and nitrogen fixing trees in agroforestry. Part III, optimizing nitrogen fixation, includes 3 chapters on environmental constraints, approaches to enhancement, and future impacts on nitrogen fixation in tropical agriculture. A list of common names and subject index are included.