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Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non-Legumes: Papers Presented at the Second Working Group Meeting of the Frontier Project on Nitrogen Fixation in Rice Held at the National Institute for biotechno
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Pub
Publication date
October 1, 1997
Pages
216
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780792345145
ISBN-10
0792345142
Dimensions
0.50 by 8 by 10.50 in.
Weight
1.65 lbs.
Published in
Europe
Original list price
$299.00
Other format details
sci/tech
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: During the next 30 years, farmers must produce 70% more rice than the 550 millions tons produced today to feed the increasing population. Nitrogen (N) is the nutrient that most frequently limits rice production. At current levels ofN use efficiency, we will require at least double the 10 million tons of N fertilizer that are currently used each year for rice production. Global agriculture now relies heavily on N fertilizers derived from petroleum, which, in turn, is vulnerable to political and economic fluctuations in the oil markets. N fertilizers, therefore, are expensive inputs, costing agriculture more than US$45 billion annually. Rice suffers from a mismatch of its N demand and N supplied as fertilizer, resulting in a 50-70% loss of applied N fertilizer. Two basic approaches may be used to solve this problem One is to regulate the timing ofN application based on needs of the plants, thus partly increasing the efficiency of the plants' use of applied N. The other is to increase the ability of the rice system to fix its own N. The latter approach is a long-term strategy, but it would have enormous environmental benefits while helping resource-poor farmers. Furthermore, farmers more easily adopt a genotype or variety with useful traits than they do crop and soil management practices that may be associated with additional costs.
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Hardcover
from Kluwer Academic Pub (November 1, 1997)
9780792347477 | details & prices | List price $55.01
About: This text looks at the advances in understanding symbiotic Rhizobium-legume interactions at the molecular level, the discovery of endophytic interactions of nitrogen-fixing organisms with non-legumes and the ability to introduce new genes into rice through transformation.
About: This text looks at the advances in understanding symbiotic Rhizobium-legume interactions at the molecular level, the discovery of endophytic interactions of nitrogen-fixing organisms with non-legumes and the ability to introduce new genes into rice through transformation.
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from Kluwer Academic Pub (October 1, 1997); titled "Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non-Legumes: Papers Presented at the Second Working Group Meeting of the Frontier Project on Nitrogen Fixation in Rice Held at the National Institute for biotechno"
9780792345145 | details & prices | 216 pages | 8.00 × 10.50 × 0.50 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $299.00
About: During the next 30 years, farmers must produce 70% more rice than the 550 millions tons produced today to feed the increasing population.
About: During the next 30 years, farmers must produce 70% more rice than the 550 millions tons produced today to feed the increasing population.
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