Growth and mineral nutrition of field crops
By: Nand Kumar Fageria, Virupax C. Baligar, Charles Allan Jones
Contributors: Baligar, V. C.; Jones, C. Allan
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Books in soils, plants, and the environment
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781439816950
Subjects: Nutrition; Field crops; Growth
Description: "This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and updated, the new edition provides comprehensive coverage on topics such as genetic, physiological, and agronomic bases of crop growth. It covers soil-plant-climatic relationships that govern the growth and mineral nutrition of crops in temperate and tropical regions. The book contains two new chapters covering remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils and cover crops as well as several new figures, references, and tables"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.