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Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production Teogenes Senna de Oliveira

Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira

Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production by Teogenes Senna de Oliveira


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This book will address the major subsoil physical and chemical constraints and their implications to crop production; Physical limitations such as poor/nil subsoil structure, sandy subsoils that do not provide adequate water or gravelly subsoils and, etc.

Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production Summary

Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production by Teogenes Senna de Oliveira

This book will address the major subsoil physical and chemical constraints and their implications to crop production; Plant growth is often restricted by adverse physical and chemical properties of subsoils yet these limitations are not revealed by testing surface soils and hence their significance in crop management is often overlooked. The major constraints can be physical or chemical. Physical limitations such as poor/nil subsoil structure, sandy subsoils that do not provide adequate water or gravelly subsoils and, etc. On the other hand, chemical constraints include acidity/alkalinity,high extractable AlorMn, low nutrient availability, salts,boron toxicity and pyritic subsoils. Some of these constraints are inherent properties of the soil profile while others are induced by crop and soil management practices. This aim of this book is to define the constraints and discuss amelioration practices and benefits for crop production. This book will be of interest to readers involved with agriculture and soil sciences in laboratory, applied or classroom settings.

About Teogenes Senna de Oliveira

TeogenesOliveira is currently a Professor at the Federal University of Vicosa,Brazil,having worked for several years at the Federal University of Ceara, where he continues to run a Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resources. His academic and scientific work is in the area of Soil Science, focusing especially on the study of soil and water management and conservation and agroecology, with emphasis on the management of soil organic matter and residues and their role in the quality of the soil and the environment.He also develops academic and scientific activities that seek to evaluate the consequences of intensive soil use, together with the design and evaluation of more environmentally balanced agricultural systems, made possible through the understanding and application of concepts for reinforcing ecological processes and relationships. Hisexpertisein the Brazilian semi-arid region has helped in generating data and in training people to work with both high and low external-input cultivation systems: irrigated systems, mixed cropping (agroforestry) systems, organic, and minimum tillage systems, all with a view to strengthening ecological processes and relationships.Hehas published 110refereed journal papers,18bookchaptersand articles in proceedings, and edited6books.


Richard Bell, who has been Professor of Land Management at Murdoch University since 2007,isa specialist insoilfertility andcropmanagement with lecturing and research experience in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China,India,Indonesia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.Hisinterests are inmanagement and fertility constraints associated with sandy, acid, salt-affected and degraded soils; nutrient cycling in farmland, rehabilitated land and forests; rehabilitation of degraded land; sustainable agricultural systems;ConservationAgriculture, andresearch foragricultural development.Hehasauthored222refereed journal papers,101bookchaptersand articles in proceedings, and edited15books. Much ofhispublished work has concerned the mineral nutrition of crop and plantsand cropping systems intensification for smallholder farms.He has led and collaborated oninternational projectsinThailand (1984-89),China (1992-97), Cambodia (2004-present),Bangladesh (2006-present),Vietnam (2007-2019),India(2015-present)and Laos (2017-present).He has supervised 70 PhD and MSc students.

Table of Contents

Introduction to subsoil constraints for crop production.-The geological, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological background of Tropical Regoliths and hostile subsoils: The Brazilian landmass.-Soil acidity and acidification.-Salinity, Sodicity and Alkalinity.-Pyritic subsoils in acid sulfate soils and similar problems in mined areas with sulfidic rocks.-Physical subsoil constraints of agricultural and forestry land.-Subsoil and surface soil constraints of mined land and tailings.-Sand and gravel subsoils.-Soilborne pathogens.-Root systems of agricultural crops and their response to physical and chemical subsoil constraints.-Roots and beneficial interactions with soil microbes.-Nutrient acquisition with particular reference to subsoil constraints.-Water acquisition by roots from the subsoil: impact of physical constraints on the dynamics of water capture.-Deep soil carbon characteristics and measurement with particular bearing on kaolinitic profiles.-Live subsoils: tropical regolith and biota interactions.-Subsoil constraints for crop production: recent advances, new technologies and priorities for further research.

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NPB9783031003431
9783031003431
3031003438
Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production by Teogenes Senna de Oliveira
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Paperback
Springer International Publishing AG
2023-08-04
450
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