Advances in agronomy. Volume 180 /

Volume 180 comprises five timely chapters that will be of interest to plant and soil scientists. Chapter 1 covers the socioeconomic impact of fungicide resistance in West Australia's wheatbelt. Chapter 2 covers the role of microbial inoculant carriers in soil health improvement and moisture ret...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Sparks, Donald L., 1953- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : Academic Press, 2023.
Series:	Advances in Agronomy ; v.180
Subjects:	Agronomy. Agronomie. agronomy. Agronomy Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Intro
Advances in Agronomy
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter One: Complementing compost with biochar for agriculture, soil remediation and climate mitigation
1. Introduction
2. Sources of organic wastes
3. Biochar production
4. Compost production
4.1. Windrow composting
4.2. In-vessel composting
5. Biochar-compost production
5.1. The concept of mixing biochar and compost
5.2. Making various types of biochar-compost
5.2.1. Co-composting biochar with organic wastes
5.2.2. Mixing biochar with mature compost
5.2.3. Adding biochar at beginning of a composting process
5.3. Influence of biochar on composting process
5.3.1. Aeration
5.3.2. pH
5.3.3. Compost microbial populations and activities
5.3.4. Decomposition rate
5.3.5. Volatile organic compound
5.4. Reduction in ammonia loss from co-composting system
5.5. Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from co-composting system
5.6. Fate of biochar carbon and humic substances after co-composting
6. Compost quality, regulations, standards and guides
7. Biochar influencing compost agricultural property
8. Application methods for biochar in agricultural soils
9. Application methods for compost and biochar-compost
9.1. Agriculture
9.2. Horticulture and landscape
9.3. Containers and pots
9.4. Home gardens
9.5. Non-food crops
10. Application of biochar to manage climate change, agricultural soil carbon and nitrogen
11. Application of biochar or compost to improve soil structure
12. Application rate of biochar-compost
13. Remediation of soils containing toxic elements
13.1. Trace element contamination in soils
13.2. Remediation using biochar
13.3. Remediation using compost and organic amendments
13.4. Co-compost of biochar and organics.
14. Remediation of soils containing organic contaminants
14.1. Organic contaminants in biochar and compost
14.2. Remediation using biochar
14.3. Remediation using composting process and compost
14.4. Remediation using biochar-compost
15. Future research
16. Salient points
Case Study
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Study site
2.2. Soil properties
2.3. Production of multi-feedstock biochar
2.3.1. Production of mineral-enriched biochar
2.4. Production of compost and biochar-compost
2.5. Experimental design and treatment
2.6. Sample analysis
3. Results
3.1. Mineral enhanced biochar properties
3.1.1. Effect of compost and biochar amendment on rice yield
3.1.2. Soil property change
3.1.2.1. Summer
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Two: Weed management in wet direct-seeded rice (Oryza sativa L.): Issues and opportunities
1. Introduction
2. Critical period of crop-weed competition and yield loss
3. Shifts in weed flora
4. Herbicide resistance in weeds
5. Weedy rice and its management in WDSR
6. Current weed management options
6.1. Preventive approaches
6.2. Cultural approaches
6.2.1. Stale seedbed
6.2.2. Intercropping
6.2.3. Water management
6.2.4. Weed competitive cultivar
6.2.5. Mulching
6.2.6. Manipulation of crop rows and density
6.2.7. Fertilization
6.3. Physical approaches
6.3.1. Manual weeding
6.3.2. Mechanical weeding
6.4. Chemical control
6.5. Integrated weed management (IWM)
7. Recent developments/potential approaches
7.1. Allelopathy
7.2. Biological control
8. Future research needs
Conflicts of interest
References
Chapter Three: Temperature response of plants and heat tolerance in Rice: A review
1. Introduction
2. Thermal response of plants.
3. How plants perceive temperature signals
3.1. Photoreceptors can sense temperature changes
3.2. Other thermal sensing mechanisms
4. Effects of heat stress on plants
5. How plants respond to heat stress
5.1. Phenotypic changes
5.2. Ca signal in plants
5.3. Role of ROS in heat stress
5.4. Heat shock protein
5.5. HS memory
6. Research progress on heat tolerance of rice
6.1. High temperature severely affects rice yield and quality
6.2. Effects of heat shock TFs and HSPs on heat tolerance in rice
6.3. Research progress of heat-tolerant QTLs (quantitative trait loci) in rice
6.4. Role of E3 ubiquitin ligases in heat stress in Rice
6.5. MiRNA
6.6. Plant hormones affect heat tolerance in rice
7. Breeding studies for heat tolerant rice
7.1. Development and utilization of heat tolerant rice germplasm
7.2. Genomic selection (GS)
8. Summary
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter Four: Obstacles in continuous cropping: Mechanisms and control measures
1. Introduction
2. Adverse effects of CC on plant growth and physiology
2.1. Plant growth and development
2.2. Plant physiology and biochemistry
2.3. Crop yield and quality
2.4. Plant resistance
3. Mechanisms underlying CC obstacles
3.1. Soil physical and chemical properties
3.2. Soil biological environment
3.2.1. Soil enzymatic activities
3.2.2. Soil microbial communities
3.2.3. Soil microbial diversity indices
3.3. Root exudates and allelopathic autotoxicity
4. Prevention and control methods for CC obstacles
4.1. Intercropping or rotation
4.2. Fertilization or organic fertilizer control
4.3. Fallow or no-till
4.4. Biological control
4.5. Soil disinfection techniques
4.6. Other underutilized treatment options
5. Problems and prospects
5.1. Mechanisms of CC obstacles.
5.2. Rhizosphere management to address CC obstacles
5.3. Efficient utilization of biodiversity
5.4. Research and development of bioremediation technology
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Five: Agriculture-related green house gas emissions and mitigation measures
1. Introduction
2. Precision in GHG measurements for purposeful inventory
2.1. The IPCC default N2O emission factor
2.2. Reduction of N2O to N2
3. Climate trend and global food production
3.1. Climate change and crop-food agriculture
3.2. Climate change and live-stock agriculture
3.3. Increased food production will generate more GHG emissions
4. Trend in fertilizer-N use and N-use efficiency
4.1. Low NUE may not always be related to increased N2O emissions
5. Agronomic practices for reducing the GHG emissions
5.1. Soil properties and management practices
5.2. Use of slow-release fertilizer materials and fertilizer additives
5.3. Nitrous oxide response to nitrogen application rate
5.4. Effect of source, time, and method of application of N on N2O emissions
6. Conservation agriculture in relation to GHG emissions
6.1. Interaction of tillage intensity and soil texture
7. Grasslands as sink or source of green house gases
7.1. Effect of management practices
7.2. Effect of climate change on C3/C4 balance of grass lands
7.3. Transition between forest, savannas, and grass land biomes
7.4. Impact of impending droughts in future on grass lands
7.5. Effect of conservation agricultural practices in grass lands
8. Peat lands as sink or source of green house gas emissions
8.1. Excessive drainage of the managed peat lands
8.2. Paludiculture in rewetted peat lands
8.3. Peat lands in tropical and sub-tropical regions
8.4. Pattern of GHG emissions in delta peat lands.
8.5. Effect of rising atmospheric temperatures
References
Index.