Nitrogen Economy of Flooded Rice Soils Proceedings of a symposium on the Nitrogen Economy of Flooded Rice Soils, Washington DC, 1983

The steadily increasing cost of nitrogen fertilizer has resulted in more emphasis on basic and applied studies to improve nitrogen use efficiency in lowland rice. The efficiency of fertilizer nitrogen in farmers' fields is shockingly low ~ a luxury resource-scarce farmers in tropical Asia can i...

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Other Authors: Datta, S.K. de (Editor), Patrick, W.H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
Series:Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Chemistry and Biology of Flooded Soils in Relation to the Nitrogen Economy in Rice Fields
  • 2. Nitrogen Transformations in Flooded Rice Soils
  • 3. Technologies for Utilizing Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Wet-Land Rice: Potentialities, Current Usage, and Limiting Factors
  • 4. Reappraisal of the Significance of Ammonia Volatilization as an N Loss Mechanism in Flooded Rice Fields
  • 5. Denitrification Losses in Flooded Rice Fields
  • 6. Ammonium Dynamics of Puddled Soils in Relation to Growth and Yield of Lowland Rice
  • 7. The Efficacy and Loss of Fertilizer N in Lowland Rice
  • 8. New developments in nitrogen fertilizers for rice
  • 9. Improving Nitrogen Fertilization in Mechanized Rice Culture
  • 10. Improving Nitrogen Fertilizer Efficiency in Lowland Rice in Tropical Asia