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The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production
Written for plant scientists, crop scientists, horticulturalists, and soil scientists, this book addresses the role of roots in crop production. It increases reader knowledge of root architecture and development dynamics to help users improve crop productivity. The author emphasizes crop production...
To Be Published August 15th 2012 by CRC Press
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Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops, Third Edition
Series: Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment
By the year 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach nine billion. To feed and sustain this projected population, world food production must increase by at least 50 percent on much of the same land that we farm today. To meet this staggering challenge, scientists must develop the...
Published October 18th 2010 by CRC Press
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The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants
Put Theory into Practice Scarcity of natural resources, higher costs, higher demand, and concerns about environmental pollution — under these circumstances, improving food supply worldwide with adequate quantity and quality is fundamental. Based on the author’s more than forty years of...
Published September 16th 2008 by CRC Press