UID:
almafu_9958132704202883
Format:
1 online resource (574 p.)
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
0-429-13115-1
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1-4398-1696-4
Series Statement:
Books in soils, plants, and the environment
Content:
This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and updated, the new edition provides comprehensive coverage of on topics such as genetic, physiological, and agronomic bases of crop growth. It covers soil-plant-climatic relationships that govern the growth and mineral nutrition of crops in temperate and tropical regions. The book contains two new chapters covering remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils and cover crops as well as several new figures, references, and tables--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front cover; Contents; Preface; Authors; Chapter 1: Field Crops and Mineral Nutrition; Chapter 2: Factors Affecting Production of Field Crops; Chapter 3: Nutrient Flux in Soil-Plant System; Chapter 4: Diagnostic Techniques for Nutritional Disorders; Chapter 5: Nutrient Management of Degraded Soils; Chapter 6: Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils; Chapter 7: The Effects of Essential Nutrients on Plant Diseases; Chapter 8: Wheat and Barley; Chapter 9: Rice; Chapter 10: Corn; Chapter 11: Sorghum; Chapter 12: Soybean; Chapter 13: Common Bean and Cowpea; Chapter 14: Peanut
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Chapter 15: SugarcaneChapter 16: Cassava and Potato; Chapter 17: Cotton; Chapter 18: Forage; Chapter 19: Cover Crops; Back cover
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4665-4300-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-61937-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4398-1695-6
Language:
English
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