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Soil Analysis: Recent Trends and Applications (2020)

Rakshit, Amitava. [editor.] ; Ghosh, Subhadip. [editor.] ; Chakraborty, Somsubhra. [editor.] ; [et al.]

Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :

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Keywords: Agriculture. ; Botanical chemistry. ; Biology Technique. ; Soil science. ; Agriculture. ; Plant Biochemistry. ; Biological Techniques. ; Soil Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Soil Analysis: A Relook and Way Forward -- Chapter 2. Application of Statistical Techniques in Soil Research -- Chapter 3. Monitoring and impact assessment of climate change on agriculture using advanced research techniques -- Chapter 4. Advancement in Soil Testing with New Age Sensors: Indian Perspective -- Chapter 5. Isotopes and Tracer Techniques for Soil Analysis -- Chapter 6. Protocols for determination and evaluation of organic carbon pools in soils developed under contrasting pedogenic processes and subjected to varying management situations -- Chapter 7. Analytical strategies for arsenic estimation -- Chapter 8. Approach to Study Clay-Organic Complexes -- Chapter 9. Recent trends in soil salinity appraisal and management -- Chapter 10. Modern Sample Preparation Techniques for Pesticide Residues Analysis in Soil -- Chapter 11. Characterization of nanomaterials using different techniques -- Chapter 12. Soil Health Assessment -- Chapter 13. Soil health indicators: Methods and applications -- Chapter 14. Indexing methods of soil quality in agroecosystems- An overview of Indian soils and beyond -- Chapter 15. Nanobiosensors: Recent Developments in Soil Health Assessment -- Chapter 16. Forensic Pedology: From Soil Trace Evidence to Courtroom -- Chapter 17. Harnessing soil microbiomes for creating healthy and functional urban landscapes’.

Abstract: Soil analysis is critically important in the management of soil-based production systems. In the absence of efficient methods of soil analysis our understanding of soil is pure guesswork. Ideally the pro-active use of laboratory analysis leads to more sustainable soil productivity. Unfortunately, most of the world’s agriculture is still reactionary, waiting for obvious yield declines to occur before taking action to identify the reasons. The modern soil laboratory is pivotal to informing soil managers what adaptive practices are needed to address chemical and physical imbalances before they occur, and the intelligent adaptive use of laboratory data not only greatly speeds up and reduces the cost of empirical soil study, but can even render it unnecessary. This book provides a synopsis of the analytical procedures used for soil analysis, discussing the common physical, chemical and biological analytical methods used in agriculture and horticulture. Written by experienced experts from institutions and laboratories around the globe, it provides insights for a range of users, including those with limited laboratory facilities, and helps students, teachers, soil scientists and laboratory technicians increase their knowledge and skills and select appropriate methods for soil analysis.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: XV, 338 p. 104 illus., 80 illus. in color. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2020.

ISBN: 9789811520396

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2039-6

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2039-6

DDC: 630

Language: English

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New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture (2020)

Rakshit, Amitava. [editor.] ; Singh, Harikesh Bahadur. [editor.] ; Singh, Anand Kumar. [editor.] ; [et al.]

Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :

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Keywords: Agriculture. ; Biodiversity. ; Environmental management. ; Cytology. ; Stress (Physiology). ; Environmental monitoring. ; Agriculture. ; Biodiversity. ; Environmental Management. ; Cellular Stress. ; Environmental Monitoring.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Abiotic stress response in plants and approaches towards mitigation -- Chapter 1. Physiological responses and resilience of plants to climate change -- Chapter 2. Allelopathy: Implications in Natural and Managed Ecosystems -- Chapter 3. Effect of Drought Stress on Crop Production -- Chapter 4. Impact of salinity stress in crop plants and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 5. Sustainable production of Rice under sodicity stress condition -- Chapter 6. Chilling stress during postharvest storage of fruits and vegetables -- Chapter 7. Chemical stress on plants -- Chapter 8. Role of ionizing radiation-induced mutations in the development of rice cultivars -- Chapter 9. Adverse Effect of Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants Metabolic Systems and Biotechnological Approaches for Its Tolerance Mechanism -- Chapter 10. Crop growth under heavy metals stress and its mitigation -- Chapter 11. Conservation of Tropical Agriculture in the era of Changing Climate -- Chapter 12. Alleviation of abiotic stress by Non-conventional plant growth regulators in plant physiology -- Chapter 13. Use of different agronomic practices to minimize ozone injury in plants: A step towards Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 14. Micro-nutrient seed priming: A pragmatic approach towards abiotic stress management. Chapter 15. Bioactive Compost: An approach for managing plant growth in environmentally stressed soils -- Chapter 16. Seed priming: Implicationin Agriculture to Manage Salinity Stress in Crops -- Chapter 17. Application of nano-particles in agriculture as fertilizers and pesticides: challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 18. Phenomics assisted breeding: An emerging way for stress management -- Chapter 19. Prediction of Climate Change using Statistical Downscaling Techniques -- Part 2. Improving crops resistance to biotic stress -- Chapter 20. Microbial Bio-agents in Agriculture: Current status and Prospects -- Chapter 21. Application of plant-volatile mediated signaling in sustainable agriculture -- Chapter 22. Biological host response: a paradigm and strategy to overcome biotic stress caused by powdery mildew causalagents in plants -- Chapter 23. CRISPR/Cas9-edited rice: a new frontier for sustainable agriculture -- Part 3. Research highlights in different crops -- Chapter 24. Agronomic Interventions for Drought Management in Crops -- Chapter 25. Flower crops response to biotic and abiotic stresses -- Chapter 26. Begomovirus menance and its management in vegetable crops -- Chapter 27. Management of abiotic stresses in vegetable crops -- Chapter 28. Realizing the potential of coastal flood-prone areas for rice production in West Bengal: prospects and challenges -- Chapter 29. Mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance and their management strategies in fruit crops -- Chapter 30. Biotic Stress Management in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) through Conventional and Molecular Approaches -- Chapter 31. System of Assured Rice Production in kharif: A resource-conserving and climate-resilient methodology for higher productivity and profitability. .

Abstract: Using accessible farming practices to meet the growing demands on agriculture is likely to result in more intense competition for natural resources, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and further deforestation and land degradation, which will in turn produce additional stress in the soil-water-plant-animal continuum. Stress refers to any unfavorable force or condition that inhibits customary functioning in plants. Concurrent manifestations of different stresses (biotic and abiotic) are very frequent in the environment of plants, which consequently reduces yield. Better understanding stress not only changes our perspective on the current environment, but can also bring a wealth of benefits, like improving sustainable agriculture and human beings’ living standards. Innovative systems are called for that protect and enhance the natural resource base, while increasing productivity via ‘holistic’ approaches, such as agroecology, agro-forestry, climate-smart agriculture and conservation agriculture, which also incorporate indigenous and traditional knowledge. The book ‘New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture’ details the current state of knowledge and highlights scientific advances concerning novel aspects of plant biology research on stress, biotic and abiotic stress responses, as well as emergent amelioration and reclamation technologies to restore normal functioning in agroecology. .

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Pages: XXIV, 660 p. 72 illus., 53 illus. in color. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2020.

ISBN: 9789811513220

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1322-0

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1322-0

DDC: 630

Language: English

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Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances (2021)

Rakshit, Amitava. [editor.] ; Singh, S.K. [editor.] ; Abhilash, P.C. [editor.] ; [et al.]

Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :

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Keywords: Soil science. ; Agriculture. ; Agronomy. ; Soil Science. ; Agriculture. ; Agronomy.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability -- Chapter 2. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics, Stabilization and Environmental Implication -- Chapter 3. Soil Organic Carbon: Past, Present and Future Research -- Chapter 4. Below-ground carbon storage and dynamics -- Chapter 5. Soil Biodiversity and Community Composition for Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 6. Rhizodeposition: an Unseen Teaser of Nature and its Prospects in Nutrients Dynamics -- Chapter 7. Soil Indicators and Management Strategies for Agro-environmental Sustainability -- Chapter 8. Conservation agriculture in reshaping below ground microbial diversity -- Chapter 9. Saline and Sodic Ecosystems in the Changing World -- Chapter 10. Approaches in Advanced Soil Elemental Extractability: Catapulting Future Soil-Plant Nutrition Research -- Chapter 11. Liquid Biofertilizer: A Potential Tool Towards Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 12. Biochar Role in Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Soils -- Chapter 13. Nanotechnology is an Art for Native Nutrient Mobilization and Enhanced Use Efficiency -- Chapter 14. Nanotechnology in Environmental Soil Science -- Chapter 15. Importance of Soil Heterogeneity in Variety Testing Programs -- Chapter 16. Environmental and societal implications of soil response to increasing agricultural demands,- Chapter 17. Soil centric approaches towards climate resilient agriculture -- Chapter 18. Functional Diversity Management through Microbial Integrity for Sustainability -- Chapter 19. The Effect of Crops and Farming Systems on Soil Quality: A Case study -- Chapter 20. Role of Biochar on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in Soil: Opportunities for Mitigating Climate change -- Chapter 21. Employment of seed priming as a salt-stress mitigating approach in agriculture: challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 22. Microbial Approaches for Bio-Amelioration and Management of Salt Affected Soils -- Chapter 23. Role of zeolites in improving nutrient and water storage capacity of soil and their impact on overall soil quality and crop performance -- Chapter 24 Sulfur in Soil: Abiotic Stress Signaling, Transmission and Induced Physiological Responses in Plants -- Chapter 25. Reducing methane emission from lowland rice ecosystem -- Chapter 26. Potential and Risk of Nanotechnology Application in Agriculture vis-à-vis Nano micronutrient Fertilizers -- Chapter 27. Introduction to drone technology for natural resource management in agriculture -- Chapter 28. High-throughput estimation of soil nutrient and residue cover: a step towards precision agriculture -- Chapter 29. Global development in Soil Science Research: Agriculture Sensors and Technologies -- Chapter 30. Soil science research and development in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 31. The frontiers in soil science research: An African perspective -- Chapter 32. Improvement of Soil quality by solid waste recycling: A Global Perspective. Chapter 33. Nutrient Sufficiency Range of Soils and Plants in Singapore -- Chapter 34. Calcareous Oolitic Limestone Rockland Soils of the Bahamas: Some Physical, Chemical and Fertility Characteristics. Chapter 35. Consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on variation of soil properties and food security: An Asian story -- Chapter 36. Natural Resource Management and Conservation for Smallholder farming in India: Strategies and Challenges -- Chapter 37. Soil and Water Management in India: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 38. Indian Fertiliser Policy: Retrospect and Prospect -- Chapter 39. Long Term Fertilizer Experiments in India: Achievements and Issues for Future Research -- Chapter 40. Micronutrient deficiency stress in soils of India: tackling it to alleviate hidden hunger -- Chapter 41. Pesticides pollution in soils and sediment in India: Status, impact and countermeasures -- Chapter 42. Climate-Smart Soil Management: Prospect and Challenges in Indian Scenario.

Abstract: This compilation has been designed to provide a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical update for scientists working in the broad field of soil science. The book explores all possible mechanisms and means to improve nutrient use efficiencies involving developing and testing of nanofertilizers, developing consortia based microbial formulations for mobilization of soil nutrients, and engineering of nutrient efficient crops using molecular biology and biotechnological tools. This is an all-inclusive collection of information about soil science. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, soil scientists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of soil science, quantitative ecology, earth sciences, GIS and geodetic sciences, as well as geologists, geomorphologists, hydrologists and landscape ecology. National and international agriculture and soil scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: XXII, 902 p. 144 illus., 86 illus. in color. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2021.

ISBN: 9789811609176

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0917-6

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0917-6

DDC: 631.4

Language: English

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Soils in Urban Ecosystem (2022)

Rakshit, Amitava. [editor.] ; Ghosh, Subhadip. [editor.] ; Vasenev, Viacheslav. [editor.] ; [et al.]

Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :

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Keywords: Agriculture. ; Soil science. ; Agriculture. ; Soil Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Urban Soil- A Review on Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2. Classification and functional characteristics of urban soil -- Chapter 3. Characteristics and functions of Urban Soils -- Chapter 4. The (urban) soil microbiome and the ecosystem services and functions -- Chapter 5. Urban soil carbon: processes and patterns -- Chapter 6. Nitrogen cycling processes in urban soils: stocks, fluxes and microbial transformations -- Chapter 7. Urban Soils and Their Management: A multidisciplinary approach -- Chapter 8. Soil quality: concepts, importance, indicators, and measurement -- Chapter 9. Digital Soil Map: an applied tool to Determine Land-use alterations -- Chapter 10.Soil conservation using mechanical and non-mechanical methods -- Chapter 11. Proximal sensing of soil pollution by heavy metals using a portable X-ray fluorescence analyzer in Subarctic industrial barren: limitations and perspectives -- Chapter 12. Urban Smart Sustainability in Tehran: LIPSOR Approach for Transformation -- Chapter 13. A system of the soil mapping and assessment relating to environmentally sensitive areas in cities -- Chapter 14. Heterotrophic and autotrophic components of soil respiration in Russian subtaiga and forest-steppe zones measured by substrate-induced respiration technique -- Chapter 15. Unsaturated Properties of Singapore Urban Soils.

Abstract: This book is a compilation of latest work in the field of urban soil management. It explores the global status of urban soils and puts forwards methods for sustainable utilization of urban soils and green spaces. Urban soil study is a new frontier of soil science. Urban soils research is challenging due to complexity of classification, spatial-temporal variability, exposure to pollution and the predominant effect of the anthropogenic factor on soil formation. Management of urban soils and green spaces is an important aspect for developing sustainable spaces. This is a comprehensive collection of information for the students, researchers, landscape architects understanding and maximizing the benefits of soils in urban ecosystems. .

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: XV, 335 p. 80 illus., 72 illus. in color. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2022.

ISBN: 9789811689147

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8914-7

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8914-7

DDC: 630

Language: English

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Relative efficacy of organic manures on rice production in lateritic soil (2003)

Bhadoria, P.B.S. ; Prakash, Y.S. ; Kar, S. ; [et al.]

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Soil use and management 19 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-2743

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Geosciences , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition

Notes: Abstract. Field experiments were carried out to evaluate the relative efficacy of organic manures in improving the productivity and pest tolerance of rice growing in a lateritic soil. The effects of three commercial manures: processed city waste (PCW), vermicompost (VC) and oil cake pellets (OCP), were assessed in comparison to farmyard manure (FYM) and inorganic fertilizer all at the same total N applied. Of the organic manures tested, FYM produced the maximum straw and grain yields. Differences in yield among the organic manure treatments were mainly attributed to variation in the amounts of available N, P, K and micronutrients. Effect of manures on soil physical condition was not studied. The uptake of N, P and K by rice plants with FYM was significantly greater than all other commercial manures and inorganic fertilizer. The tolerance of rice plants to attack by pathogens and pests, measured in terms of grain yield was highest in the treatment with FYM. Among the commercial manures PCW showed the greatest promise and emerged as a potential alternative to FYM.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2003.tb00283.x

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