Potash Use and Dynamics in Agriculture

Potash Use and Dynamics in Agriculture
Author: Abdul Wakeel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811668833

This book covers the use and dynamics of potassium fertilizers in agriculture. It explores potassium dynamics in soil, phytoavailability, uptake and translocation in crop plants, impact of potassium fertilizers on quality of agricultural produce. Potassium is an essential plant nutrient that has long been overlooked in agriculture of many developing countries. In most of the agro-ecosystems of such countries, potassium balance is negative because its application seldom matches with crop removal. Agro-technicians lack enough skills and resources to promote the right source of fertilizer at the right rate, time and place to facilitate profitable farming. There is a need for farmers to update their farming practices so as to improve the crop yield and quality under unfavorable climatic conditions. Correct application of potassium fertilizers is directly linked with increased crop yield per unit land area in most of the developing countries. Therefore this book fills the gap in the information and provide the readers with latest updates on use of potassium fertilizers. This book contains latest information relevant for graduate students, progressive farmers, extension worker, early career researchers, and policy makers.

Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops

Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops
Author: T. Scott Murrell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2022
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9783030591991

This open access book highlights concepts discussed at two international conferences that brought together world-renowned scientists to advance the science of potassium (K) recommendations for crops. There was general agreement that the potassium recommendations currently in general use are oversimplified, outdated, and jeopardize soil, plant, and human health. Accordingly, this book puts forward a significantly expanded K cycle that more accurately depicts K inputs, losses and transformations in soils. This new cycle serves as both the conceptual basis for the scientific discussions in this book and a framework upon which to build future improvements. Previously used approaches are critically reviewed and assessed, not only for their relevance to future enhancements, but also for their use as metrics of sustainability. An initial effort is made to link K nutrition in crops and K nutrition in humans. The book offers an invaluable asset for graduate students, educators, industry scientists, data scientists, and advanced agronomists.

Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture

Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture
Author: Vijay Singh Meena
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 813222776X

The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K-solubilization is carried out by a large number of saprophytic bacteria (Bacillus mucilaginosus, B. edaphicus, B. circulans, Acidothiobacillus ferrooxidans, Paenibacillus spp.) and fungal strains (Aspergillus spp. and Aspergillus terreus). Major amounts of K containing minerals (muscovite, orthoclase, biotite, feldspar, illite, mica) are present in the soil as a fixed form which is not directly taken up by the plant. Nowadays most of the farmers use injudicious application of chemical fertilizers for achieving maximum productivity. However, the KSMs are most important microorganisms for solubilizing fixed form of K in soil system. The KSMs are an indigenous rhizospheric microorganism which show effective interaction between soil-plant systems. The main mechanism of KSMs is acidolysis, chelation, exchange reactions, complexolysis and production of organic acid. According to the literature, currently negligible use of potassium fertilizer as chemical form has been recorded in agriculture for enhancing crop yield. Most of the farmers use only nitrogen and phosphorus and not the K fertilizer due to unawareness that the problem of K deficiency occurs in rhizospheric soils. The K fertilizer is also costly as compared to other chemical fertilizers.

MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences

MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences
Author: Martin H. Trauth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540727485

Introduces methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB such as basic statistics for univariate, bivariate and multivariate datasets, jackknife and bootstrap resampling schemes, processing of digital elevation models, gridding and contouring, geostatistics and kriging, processing and georeferencing of satellite images, digitizing from the screen, linear and nonlinear time-series analysis and the application of linear time-invariant and adaptive filters. Includes a brief description of each method and numerous examples demonstrating how MATLAB can be used on data sets from earth sciences.

The Role of Potassium in Agriculture

The Role of Potassium in Agriculture
Author: Victor James Kilmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1968
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Potassium reserves in the world. Potassium fertlizer technology. Preparation of finished fertilizers containing potassium. Agronomic evaluatin of potassium polyphosphate and potassium calcium pyrophosphates as sources of potassium. Mineralogy of soil potassium. Role of potassium in photosynthesis and respiration. Effect of potassium on carbohydrate metabolism and translocation. The effect of potassium on the organic acid and Nonprotein nitrogen content of plant tissue. The effect of potassium and other univalent cations on the conformation of enzymes. Role of potassium in human and animal nutrition. The effects of potassium on disease resistance. Effect of potassium on Quality factors - fruits and vegetables. Soil factors affecting potassium availability. Mechanism of potassium absorption by plants. Exchangeable cations of plant roots and potassium absorption by the plant. Interaction of potassium and other ions. Plant factors affecting potassium availability and uptake. Potassium nutrition of tropical crops. Potassium nutrition of forage crops with perennials. Potassium nutrition of soybeans and corn. Potassium nutrition of tree crops. Potassium nutrition of vegetable crops.

Adaptive Soil Management : From Theory to Practices

Adaptive Soil Management : From Theory to Practices
Author: Amitava Rakshit
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2017-03-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9811036381

The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stakeholders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems. As natural areas shrink and fragment, our ability to sustain economic growth and safeguard biological diversity and ecological integrity is increasingly being put to the test. In attempting to meet this unprecedented challenge, adaptive management is becoming a viable alternative for broader application. Adaptive management is an iterative decision-making process which is both operationally and conceptually simple and which incorporates users to acknowledge and account for uncertainty, and sustain an operating environment that promotes its reduction through careful planning, evaluation, and learning until the desired results are achieved. This multifaceted approach requires clearly defined management objectives to guide decisions about what actions to take, and explicit assumptions about expected outcomes to compare against actual outcomes. In this edited book, we address the issue by pursuing a holistic and systematic approach that utilizes natural resources to reap sustainable environmental, economic and social benefits for adaptive management, helping to ensure that relationships between land, water and plants are managed in ways that mimic nature.

Handbook of Plant Nutrition

Handbook of Plant Nutrition
Author: Allen V. Barker
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1420014870

The burgeoning demand on the world food supply, coupled with concern over the use of chemical fertilizers, has led to an accelerated interest in the practice of precision agriculture. This practice involves the careful control and monitoring of plant nutrition to maximize the rate of growth and yield of crops, as well as their nutritional value.

Rice

Rice
Author: Achim Dobermann
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2000
Genre: Nutrition
ISBN: 9810427425

Rice ecosystems; Nutrient management; Mineral deficiencies; Mineral toxicities; Tools and information.