Handbook of Soil Acidity

ISBN-13: 9780824708900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 512 str.

Zdenkio Rengel; Rengel Rengel; Zdenko Rengel

Opis

This handbook presents discussions on the control, management and reduction of soil acidification in various agricultural systems. It presents effective strategies to modify and adjust crop production processes to decrease the toxicity of soil contaminants, balance soil pH, improve root growth and nutrient uptake and increase agricultural yield.

O autorze

Zdenko Rengel is Professor and Head of the Soil Science and Plant Nutrition Department University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. The author or editor of over 160 journal articles and book chapters, and three books, including the Handbook of Plant Growth (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), he is section editor of Plant and Soil, the Journal of Plant Nutrition, and the Journal of Crop Production. A member of the International Plant Nutrition Council and the Western Australia Advisory Committee for Management of Soil Acidity, among other organizations, he received the B.Sc. degree (1980) in biology and the M.Sc. degree (1984) in cell biology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the Ph.D. degree in agronomy/botany from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.