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Corn --- Soil management --- Nutrition. --- Economic aspects --- Irrigation

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Agriculture --- Agronomy --- Agronomie --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Agriculture. --- Agronomy. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- agricultural sciences --- biological sciences --- plant production --- Crops --- Soil management --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- agriculture --- Slovak Republic --- agriculture.

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Soil Formation deals with qualitative and quantitative aspects of soil formation (or pedogenesis) and the underlying chemical, biological, and physical processes. The starting point of the text is the process - and not soil classification. Effects of weathering and new formation of minerals, mobilisation, transport, and breakdown or immobilisation of dissolved and suspended compounds are discussed. Soil processes and profiles are discussed in relation to the landscape, the geosphere, and the biosphere. Emphasis lies on the universality of soil-forming processes in past and present, and on the soil as a dynamic entity that forms part of the total environment. Complexity of genetic processes in time and space is given much attention. The text gives many examples from literature and places some in a new light. The reader is guided through the subject matter by a large number of questions and problems to help understand and synthesis the material. Answers to all questions are included. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent discoveries. Printing errors have been corrected, and new photographs support the text.

Soil formation --- Soil formation. --- Sols --- Formation --- EPUB-LIV-FT SPRINGER-B --- Environment. --- Geochemistry. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Chemical composition of the earth --- Chemical geology --- Geological chemistry --- Geology, Chemical --- Chemistry --- Earth sciences --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Formation, Soil --- Pedogenesis --- Soil genesis --- Weathering

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Plants collaborate with many micro-organisms in the rhizosphere to form mutualistic associations. One of the best examples is the mycorrhizal symbio­ sis between plants and fungi. Here, fungi support plants with mineral nutri­ ents and other services and the fungi, in turn, receive photosynthates from the autotrophic plants. Mycorrhizal associations are common in almost all eco­ systems and 80 % of all land plants associate with these mutualistic soil fungi. There is an increasing awareness among biologists, ecologists and mycolo­ gists that mycorrhizal associations need to be considered in order to under­ stand the ecology and evolution of plants, plant communities and ecosystems. In the last decade, many advances and breakthroughs have been made in mycorrhizal ecology. We aim to summarise these advances in this Volume, with special emphasis given to the ecological function of the mycorrhizal symbiosis. This Volume is divided into six sections. The first section gives an intro­ duction to the mycorrhizal symbiosis and discusses the progress that has been made in understanding the ecological function of this association. The second section deals with the eco-physiology of mycorrhizal plants. It also covers the influence of global changes on the symbiosis. The third section dis­ cusses the influences of mycorrhizal fungi on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. It also discusses factors that influence the diversity and structure of mycorrhizal fungal communities. The fourth section shows the multi­ trophic nature of the mycorrhizal symbiosis.

Mycorrhizas --- Myxomycetes. Myxothallophytes. Mycetozoans --- Ecology. --- Plant ecology. --- Agriculture. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Microbial ecology. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant Sciences. --- Microbial Ecology. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Environmental microbiology --- Microorganisms --- Ecology --- Microbiology --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Botany --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Floristic botany --- Floristic ecology --- MYCORRHIZAS --- ECOLOGY

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This book, written by leading grain scientists from Europe and Africa, examines six such grains that have been important food crops in various parts of the world and have the potential for much greater and more widespread use. The chemistry, nutritional value, food processing technologies and potential applications of three true cereals: sorghum, spelt wheat and the major millet species, and three dicotyledonous pseudocereals: grain amaranth, buckwheat and quinoa are discussed. Just three cereal grains account for more than 75% of all grains produced worldwide. This causes high risks for the future of humankind via catastrophic food crop failures and is detrimental to our long-term health (deficiencies of micronutritients, food allergenes and intolerances). In addition, the intensive cultivation practices needed to produce the required high yields of these cereals is frequently leading to environmental degradation, and they are often inappropriate in the Developing World.

Grain --- New crops --- Céréale --- Cereals --- Pseudocereale --- Pseudocereals --- Composition chimique --- Chemical composition --- Propriété technologique --- technical properties --- Valeur nutritive --- Nutritive value --- Triticum spelta --- Pennisetum glaucum --- Setaria italica --- Eragrostis --- Eleusine coracana --- Sorghum --- Chenopodium quinoa --- Fagopyrum esculentum --- Millets --- Amaranthus --- Produit céréalier --- Cereal products --- Digitaria exilis --- Food—Biotechnology. --- Nutrition   . --- Agriculture. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Plant ecology. --- Food Science. --- Nutrition. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Plant Ecology. --- Botany --- Phytoecology --- Plants --- Vegetation ecology --- Ecology --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Alimentation --- Food --- Nutrition --- Health --- Physiology --- Diet --- Dietetics --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Health aspects --- Floristic ecology