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Nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems / Ken. E. Giller & Kate J. Wilson

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Wallingford : C.A.B International, c1991.Description: xii, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0851988423
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 633.304 22 GIL
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Contents;

PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Tropical Environments: Climates, Soils and Cropping Systems
2 .Nitrogen -fixing Organisms in the Tropics
3. The Process of Nitrogen-fixation
4. Assessment of the Role of Nitrogen-fixation

PART II TROPICAL CROPS AND CROPPING SYSTEMS
5. Cereal Crops and Grasses: Free-living, Root-associated and Endophytic Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria
6. Wetland Rice Cyanobacteria and Azolla as Green Manure
7. Grain Legumes
8. Pasture Improvement: Introduction of Legumes
9. Plantation Crops: Understorey Legumes and Shade Trees
10. Legumes in Multiple Cropping: Crop Rotations, Green Manures, Leys and Intercrops
11. Agroforestry: Nitrogen-fixing Trees in Integrated Agriculture

PART III OPTIMIZING NITROGEN-FIXATION
12. Environmental Constraints to Nitrogen-fixation
13.Past Approaches: Successes and Failures
14. Future Benefits: An Ecological Approach to Agriculture

Includes bibliographical references and index

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