Potassium In Agriculture

Author : T. Scott Murrell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030591972
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops written by T. Scott Murrell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book highlights concepts discussed at two international conferences that brought together world-renowned scientists to advance the science of potassium (K) recommendations for crops. There was general agreement that the potassium recommendations currently in general use are oversimplified, outdated, and jeopardize soil, plant, and human health. Accordingly, this book puts forward a significantly expanded K cycle that more accurately depicts K inputs, losses and transformations in soils. This new cycle serves as both the conceptual basis for the scientific discussions in this book and a framework upon which to build future improvements. Previously used approaches are critically reviewed and assessed, not only for their relevance to future enhancements, but also for their use as metrics of sustainability. An initial effort is made to link K nutrition in crops and K nutrition in humans. The book offers an invaluable asset for graduate students, educators, industry scientists, data scientists, and advanced agronomists.

Author : Robert D. Munson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potassium in Agriculture written by Robert D. Munson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vijay Singh Meena
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 813222776X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture written by Vijay Singh Meena and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K-solubilization is carried out by a large number of saprophytic bacteria (Bacillus mucilaginosus, B. edaphicus, B. circulans, Acidothiobacillus ferrooxidans, Paenibacillus spp.) and fungal strains (Aspergillus spp. and Aspergillus terreus). Major amounts of K containing minerals (muscovite, orthoclase, biotite, feldspar, illite, mica) are present in the soil as a fixed form which is not directly taken up by the plant. Nowadays most of the farmers use injudicious application of chemical fertilizers for achieving maximum productivity. However, the KSMs are most important microorganisms for solubilizing fixed form of K in soil system. The KSMs are an indigenous rhizospheric microorganism which show effective interaction between soil-plant systems. The main mechanism of KSMs is acidolysis, chelation, exchange reactions, complexolysis and production of organic acid. According to the literature, currently negligible use of potassium fertilizer as chemical form has been recorded in agriculture for enhancing crop yield. Most of the farmers use only nitrogen and phosphorus and not the K fertilizer due to unawareness that the problem of K deficiency occurs in rhizospheric soils. The K fertilizer is also costly as compared to other chemical fertilizers.

Author : Victor James Kilmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.9E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Potassium in Agriculture written by Victor James Kilmer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potassium reserves in the world. Potassium fertlizer technology. Preparation of finished fertilizers containing potassium. Agronomic evaluatin of potassium polyphosphate and potassium calcium pyrophosphates as sources of potassium. Mineralogy of soil potassium. Role of potassium in photosynthesis and respiration. Effect of potassium on carbohydrate metabolism and translocation. The effect of potassium on the organic acid and Nonprotein nitrogen content of plant tissue. The effect of potassium and other univalent cations on the conformation of enzymes. Role of potassium in human and animal nutrition. The effects of potassium on disease resistance. Effect of potassium on Quality factors - fruits and vegetables. Soil factors affecting potassium availability. Mechanism of potassium absorption by plants. Exchangeable cations of plant roots and potassium absorption by the plant. Interaction of potassium and other ions. Plant factors affecting potassium availability and uptake. Potassium nutrition of tropical crops. Potassium nutrition of forage crops with perennials. Potassium nutrition of soybeans and corn. Potassium nutrition of tree crops. Potassium nutrition of vegetable crops.

Author : Amitava Rakshit
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811036381
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Soil Management : From Theory to Practices written by Amitava Rakshit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stakeholders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems. As natural areas shrink and fragment, our ability to sustain economic growth and safeguard biological diversity and ecological integrity is increasingly being put to the test. In attempting to meet this unprecedented challenge, adaptive management is becoming a viable alternative for broader application. Adaptive management is an iterative decision-making process which is both operationally and conceptually simple and which incorporates users to acknowledge and account for uncertainty, and sustain an operating environment that promotes its reduction through careful planning, evaluation, and learning until the desired results are achieved. This multifaceted approach requires clearly defined management objectives to guide decisions about what actions to take, and explicit assumptions about expected outcomes to compare against actual outcomes. In this edited book, we address the issue by pursuing a holistic and systematic approach that utilizes natural resources to reap sustainable environmental, economic and social benefits for adaptive management, helping to ensure that relationships between land, water and plants are managed in ways that mimic nature.

Author : P. Schjønning
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851998503
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Soil Quality written by P. Schjønning and published by CABI. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth treatments of the soil quality concept, its history, and its applicability in research and in developed and developing societiesAll 18 chapters are written by well-established experts from Europe, North America and AustraliaSoil quality is a concept that allows soil functions to be related to specific purposes. Managing soil quality takes a management oriented approach by identifying key issues in soil quality and management options to enhance the sustainability of modern agriculture. Topics covered include major plant nutrients (N, P, K), soil acidity, soil organic matter, soil biodiversity, soil compaction, erosion, pesticides and urban waste.

Author : Noushina Iqbal
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811644616
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Role of Potassium in Abiotic Stress written by Noushina Iqbal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on potassium in abiotic stress tolerance deals with the ongoing trend in increasing abiotic stresses and interlinked issues food security. As mineral nutrient potassium holds an important place in agriculture and is involved in various physiological and biochemical processes. It takes part in protein synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, enzyme activation, cation-anion balance, osmoregulation, water movement, energy transfer, and regulates stomata and photosynthesis. Potassium plays an important role as abiotic stress buster. This book will deal with potassium relevance to plant functions and adaptations, range of its biological functions, role of potassium in abiotic stress tolerance, analyses of mechanisms responsible for perception and signal transduction of potassium under abiotic stress, critical evaluation of and cross-talks on nutrients and phytohormones signaling pathways under optimal and stressful conditions, and interaction of potassium with other nutrients for abiotic stress tolerance. This book will be of interest to teachers, researchers, scientists working on abiotic stresses. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, and environmental sciences. National and international agricultural scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.

Author : D.E. Garrett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400915454
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potash written by D.E. Garrett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potash is the term generally given to potassium chloride, but it is also loosely applied to the various potassium compounds used in agriculture: po tassium sulfate, potassium nitrate or double salts of potassium and magne sium sulfate (generally langbeinite, K S0 • 2MgS0 ). Sometimes the var 2 4 4 ious compounds are differentiated by the terms muriate of potash, sulfate of potash, etc. When referring to ores, or in geology, all of the naturally found potassium salts are called "potash ores". However, originally potash referred only to crude potassium carbonate, since its sole source was the leaching of wood ashes in large pots. This "pot ash" product was generally recovered from near-seacoast plants, such as the saltwort bush, whose ashes were richer in potassium than sodium carbonate. Inland plant's ashes were generally higher in sodium carbonate, giving rise to the word alkali from the Arabic word for soda ash, al kali. The term was then carried over after potassium was discovered to form the latin word for it, kalium. The recovery of potash from ashes became a thriving small cottage industry throughout the world's coastal areas, and developing economies, such as the early set tlers in the United States were able to generate some much-needed income from its recovery and sale. This industry rapidly phased out with the advent of the LeBanc process for producing soda ash in 1792, and the discovery about the same time of the massive sodium-potassium nitrate deposits in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

Author : Robert D. Munson
Publisher : Amer Society of Agronomy
ISBN 13 : 9780891180869
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potassium in Agriculture written by Robert D. Munson and published by Amer Society of Agronomy. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potassium reserves, ming, refining technology, marketing, and use. World potassium reserves. Advances in potassium mining and refinig. Development in potassium fertilizer technology. Potassium marketing systems. Potassium sources, use, and potential. Current and future use of world potassium. Potassium in soils. Potassium in plants. Potassium in humans and other animals. Potassium nutrition for maximum economic yield and crop production.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Crops with Plant Food written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: