Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems, 2nd Edition

Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems, 2nd Edition

Author: Ken E. Giller
ISBN: 9780851994178
Pages: 448
Format: 15 Χ 24
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 2001


Readership
Crop and soil science, microbiology, agroforesty and tropical agriculture.

Key Features
The significant research advances in the last ten years on both a fundamental and applied level are covered, including those relating to:
• the classification and description of N2-fixing bacteria
• symbioses and the processes of N2 -fixation

Main 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.

Main Contents
• Tropical Environments: Climates, Soils and Cropping Systems
• N2-fixing Organisms in the Tropics
• The Process of Nitrogen Fixation
• Assessment of the Role of Nitrogen Fixation
• Cycling of Fixed N2 in Tropical Cropping Systems
• Cereal Crops and Grasses: Free-living, Root Associated and Endophytic Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
• Cyanobacteria and Azolla as Green Manure for Wetland Rice
• Grain Legumes for Food, Fodder and Soil Fertility
• Legumes as Green Manures and Cover Crops
• Forage Legumes in Pastures and Leys
• Plantation Crops: Understorey Legumes and Shade Trees
• Agroforestry: Nitrogen Fixing Trees in Integrated Agriculture
• Environmental Constraints to Nitrogen Fixation
• Approaches to Enhancing N2-fixation
• Future Impacts of N2-fixation in Tropical Agriculture