Books in the Advances in Agronomy series

Contains six reviews covering topics on crop and soil sciences. This volume covers cytogenics and genetics of pearl millet, looking at advances in ICP emission and ICP spectrometry; cotton growth and nitrogen supply; sources and behavior of arsenic in the soil environment; and dryland cropping intensification methods.

Features a number of advances in the crop and soil sciences. This work offers a review of agricultural and environmental issues associated with poultry manure management; including aspects of rainwater utilization efficiency in rainfed lowland rice. It also covers soil potassium quantity-intensity relationships.

Intended for both researchers and students of agronomy, this volume covers advances in agronomic improvement in oilseed brassicas, population groupings of soybean bradyrhizobia, crop responses to chloride, and plant nutrient sulfur in the tropics and subtropics.

Contains five reviews covering topics on crop and soil sciences. This volume covers: the control of soil-borne plant pests; ion-diffusion in the soil-plant system; dormancy, germinability, and germination in crop and weed seeds; dynamic conservation of plant genetic resources; and, coal surface mine reclamation.

Focuses on environmental quality and biotechnology. This title contains 4 articles on soil science that cover acid deposition, chemical transport, and surface complexation; and 2 articles on crop science survey variety fingerprinting and corn evolution. It is useful for agronomists and biotechnologists in academe, industry and government.

Serving as a compilation of reviews written by crop and soil scientists, this title covers: gypsum and acid soils; conservation tillage; transposable elements in maize; concepts and directions in arthropod pest management; and, accumulation of cadmium in crop plants and its consequences to human health.

Contains seven reviews covering topics on crop and soil sciences. This volume includes chapters on quantitative genetics and plant breeding, wheat, perennial forages, and cotton.

Presents reviews on important agronomy issues.

Presents reviews on important agronomy issues.

Presents a source for the research in agronomy. This title offers reviews on important agronomy issues.

Covers the research in agronomy. This work presents reviews on important agronomy issues.

Contains chapters that present research advances in Agronomy. This volume includes a coverage of wet chemistry and molecular scale techniques, such as x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopies. It discusses the Wheat Genetics Resource Center, and also offers an analysis of biodiversity in agronomy.

Contains seven reviews that discuss topics critical to agricultural and environmental sustainability. This volume is useful for agronomists, as well as crop and soil scientists.

Volume 74 contains six excellent cutting-edge reviews detailing advances in the plant and environmental soil sciences. Chapter 1 is an extensive review on soil quality. Chapter 2 covers recent advances in understanding the formation of metal hydroxide precipitates on soil surfaces and their implica

A reference for the research in agronomy that presents reviews on important agronomy issues.