Advances in Agronomy

Respected serial that features cutting-edge reviews in crop and soil science

Donald L. Sparks (Volume editor)

9780120007974, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 1 January 2003

424 pages
22.5 x 14.9 x 2.7 cm, 0.79 kg

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source of the latest research in agronomy. Major reviews deal with the current topics of interest to agronomists, as well as crop and soil scientists. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. Editor Donald Sparks, former president of the Soil Science Society of America and current president of the International Union of Soil Science, has just been appointed the S. Hallock du Pont Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences at The University of Delaware.

1. Quality Soil Management or Soil Quality Management: Performance vs. Semantics
2. Gross Nitrogen Fluxes in Soil: Theory, Measurement and Application of 15N Pool Dilution Techniques
3. Distribution and Management of Seleniferous Soils
4. The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Sustainable Cropping Systems
5. Catch Crops and Green Manures as Biological Tools in Nitrogen Management in Temperate Zones
6. A Review of Subterranean Clover Trifolium subterraneum L.: Its Ecology and Use as a Pasture Legume Breeding Hevea brasiliensis for Environmental Constraints

Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Agricultural science [TVB], Agriculture & farming [TV], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB]