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Mineral Nutrition of Rice
Grown around the world and a staple food for more than 50% world’s population, rice is the second most important cereal crop after wheat. This book addresses the role of mineral nutrition in rice production globally. Specific nutrients essential to rice presented include nitrogen, phosphorus,...
To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by CRC Press
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The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production
The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops. This book addresses the role of roots in crop production and includes references to numerous annual...
Published July 22nd 2012 by CRC Press
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Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops, Third Edition
Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment
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...
Published October 18th 2010 by CRC Press
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The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants
Put Theory into Practice Scarcity of natural resources, higher costs, higher demand, and concerns about environmental pollution — under these circumstances, improving food supply worldwide with adequate quantity and quality is fundamental. Based on the author’s more than forty years of...
Published September 16th 2008 by CRC Press