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Pastures for the Tropical Lowlands

Author : Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

Publisher : CIAT

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 32,42 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9789589183458

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Introduction; Tropical pastures target environments; Regional germplasm evaluation: A portfolio of germplasm options for the major ecosystems of tropical amarica; Methodological challenges in pasture research; Germplasme case study: Brachiaria species; Germplasm case study: Arachis pintoi; Integrating the native savanna resource with improved pastures; Experiences at the interface of research and development with tropical pastures; The role of pastures in production systems; Soil-plant factors and prodesses affscting productivity in ley farming; tropical pastures program: bibliobraphy of publictions, 1985-1991; Acronyms; abbreviations.



Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops

Author : Nand Kumar Fageria

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 574 pages

File Size : 19,54 MB

Release : 2010-10-19

Category : Science

ISBN : 1439816964

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By the year 2050, the world's population is expected to reach nine billion. To feed and sustain this projected population, world food production must increase by at least 50 percent on much of the same land that we farm today. To meet this staggering challenge, scientists must develop the technology required to achieve an "evergreen" revolution-one



Agropastoral Systems for the Tropical Savannas of Latin America

Author : Elcio Perpétuo Guimarães

Publisher : CIAT

Page : 347 pages

File Size : 41,56 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Agriculture, Cooperative

ISBN :

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Part I: Agropastoral research in the tropical savannas of Latin America. Part II: Methodological aspects of agropastoral research. Part III: Crops and forages as components of agropastoral systems. Part IV: Potential of agropastoral systems for the sustainable management of the tropical savannas of South America. Part V: Acquired experiences and the road to the future.



Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement:

Author : Ram J. Singh

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 42,85 MB

Release : 2009-01-15

Category : Science

ISBN : 142004740X

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In recent decades, livestock producers have moved away from open grazing for a number of reasons, none having to do with the health of consumers. Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Forage Crops demonstrates how state-of-the-art technology can encourage the raising of livestock in open pastures where they can be fed gra



Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

Author : Mohammad Pessarakli

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 998 pages

File Size : 43,64 MB

Release : 2001-09-18

Category : Science

ISBN : 0203908422

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With contributions from over 70 international experts, this reference provides comprehensive coverage of plant physiological stages and processes under both normal and stressful conditions. It emphasizes environmental factors, climatic changes, developmental stages, and growth regulators as well as linking plant and crop physiology to the production of food, feed, and medicinal compounds. Offering over 300 useful tables, equations, drawings, photographs, and micrographs, the book covers cellular and molecular aspects of plant and crop physiology, plant and crop physiological responses to heavy metal concentration and agrichemicals, computer modeling in plant physiology, and more.



Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops, Third Edition

Author : Nand Kumar Fageria

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 50,30 MB

Release : 1997-06-20

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780824700898

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"Examines climate-soil-plant interrelationships governing the nutritional and growth aspects of cereal, legume, and pasture crops--providing basic and applied information to improve the management and potential yield of major temperate and tropical field crop. Second Edition furnishes a new chapter on the management of degraded soils, and improved organization of chapter sequence, and more than 325 tables and drawings--over 90 new to this edition."



Management of Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the Development of More Productive and Sustainable Agricultural Systems

Author : J.K. Ladha

Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 41,83 MB

Release : 1995-09-30

Category : Nature

ISBN : 0792334132

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Reprinted from Plant and Soil, v.174, nos.1-2 (1995), this volume is devoted to discussions on the role of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in agricultural sustainability. Papers presented on BNF in crop forage and tree legumes are augmented with discussion of integrated farming systems involving BNF, soil and N management, and recycling of legume residues. BNF by non-legumes is discussed and attempts to transform cereals into nodulating plants are critically reviewed. Also described are advances in the development of new methodologies to understand symbiotic interactions and to assess N-2 fixation in the field; means of enhancing BNF through plant and soil management; breeding and selection; problems encountered in exploiting BNF under farmers' field conditions; and promising approaches to improve BNF exploitation. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



XX International Grassland Conference: Offered papers

Author : F.P. O'Mara

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 975 pages

File Size : 46,41 MB

Release : 2023-08-28

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9086865526

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"This book contains a compilation of offered papers presented at the main congress of the XX International Grassland Congress held in University College Dublin, Ireland from 26 June to 1 July, 2005. It is complemented by six other books arising from the XX IGC as listed on the back cover: the book of invited papers from the main congress and five books containing the proceedings of five satellite workshops held immediately after the main congress at locations in the UK and Ireland (Aberystwyth, Belfast, Cork, Glasgow and Oxford). The workshops were designed to facilitate more in-depth presentations and discussions on more specialised topics of worldwide significance. The main congress brought together scientists from many disciplines, policy makers, consultants and producers involved directly in grass production and utilisation, as well as people in associated industries. They discussed issues around the theme of the congress, Grasslands : a Global Resource. The congress programme was organised around three main thematic areas: Efficient Production from Grassland Grassland and the Environment Delivering the Benefits from Grassland"





Root Demographics and Their Efficiencies in Sustainable Agriculture, Grasslands and Forest Ecosystems

Author : James E. Box Jr.

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 766 pages

File Size : 12,66 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Science

ISBN : 9401152705

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The International Society of Root Research sponsored the Symposium "Root Demographics and Their Efficiencies in Sustainable Agriculture, GrassLands and Forest Ecosystems," July 14-18, 1996, at the Madren Conference Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA. The conference was a continuation of a series of international symposiums on root research held every three to four years. Symposiums have also been held twice in Vienna, Austria, and once in Uppsala, Sweden, and Almaty, Kazahkstan prior to the meeting at Clemson University. The sponsoring society has made a particular effort in these symposia to include root scientists from the former Soviet Union because of the importance of exchanging information on a worldwide basis. This symposium continued and promoted that effort by providing travel grants to several scientists from that region; however, funds for that purpose were limited. Therefore, in compiling these proceedings, a number of papers from scientists from the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pack countries have been included even though the scientists were not actually present for the SymPOSIum.