Crop Science and Land Use for Food and Bioenergy

R.K. Behl, W. Merbach, H. Meliczek and C. Kaetsch

ISBN 10: 819043098X / ISBN 13: 9788190430982

Published by Agrobios, 2010

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Contents Foreword Preface I Vision 1 Land Resources and Land Use Options - Challenges for Food Security to Climate ChangeManfred Kern II Crop Improvement 2 Biotechnological strategies to ameliorate abiotic stress in crops to enhance productivity and improve food security in African countriesSeedhabadee Ganeshan and Ravindra N Chibbar 3 Genetic resources provided by genetic engineeringPal Pepo-Henriett Oskolas Kovacsne 4 Hybrid Wheat Developmental approaches and impact analysisSK Sethi and Ashwani Kumar 5Triticale a viable and adaptable crop history present situation and prospect in Hungary and Mid-EuropeL Bona 6Strategies to enhance wheat productivity under drought stress conditionsSS Dhanda RK Behl and Renu Munjal 7 Distribution of Zinc Copper and Selenium in Food Chain; Bioavailability Clinical Implications and BiofortificationSalmaan Saee Abdul Wakeel Rishi Kumar Behl and Abdul R Asif 8 Genetic improvement of nutrient use efficiency in wheat under low input conditionsAditya K Surya RK Behl SS Dhanda and Mitsuru Osaki 9 Genetic variation for nodulation and nitrogen fixation in chickpea - an appraisalPreeti Verma 10Maize scenario in IndiaSain Dass Chikkappa G Karjagi KP Singh and Shekhar JC 11 Strategies of maize breeding to increase efficiency of land use and phytomass conversion to mitigate climate changeMolla Assefa and K W-Giorgis 12 An important endangered medicinal plant Tylophora indica - an appraisal reviewRidhima Spatia 13 Indian Seed Industry scenario and the role of Vibha Seeds GroupP Vidyasagar IV Plant Microbe Interaction 14 Influence of rhizosphere bacteria of African oil palm Elaeis guineensis on calcium iron and aluminium phosphate in-vitro mobilizationW Merbach H Fankem A Deubel S Ruppel and N Narula 15 Host genotype-Azotobacter chroococcum -Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Interactions in relation to nutrient use efficiency in wheatRK Behl N Narula Silke Ruppel and E Kothe 16Siderophore production in Azotobacter chrococcum strainsChristian Dimkpa and Erika Kothe 17Impact of ethylene-diamine resistant mutants of Azospirillum lipoferum lacz marked on crop productivity of wheatRC Anand R Jawa MU Charaya and N Narula 18 Effect of Bt Cotton root exudates on native microbial population and its impact on growth of bioinoculantsR Gera Seema Mehta and RC Aanand 19 Microbial and enzymatic activities in some coal mine soils from Central Scotland V Resource Management  20 Evaluation of organic matter content in arable soils in the Czech RepublicJ Kubat J and J Lipavsky 21 Effect of crop residues and FYM on yield and quality of carrot rootsAshwini Kumar MK Rana and VS Rana 22 Effect of N and P fertilizer rate on yield and yield components of potatoFisseha Negash and Molla Assefa 23 Phosphorus efficiency and P influx of maize in Low P AlfisolPBS Bhadoria D Samal S Singh L Horst B Steingrobe and N Claassen  24 Genetic and management options for effective productivity of water and other interlinked resources in semi-arid and tropical regions of developing countriesDP Singh Ashok Kumar Ravi Gupta and Yadvika 25 Improving rural livelihoods with rainwater harvesting and conservation on communal croplands in South Africa opportunities and obstaclesGerhard R Backeberg 26 Climate Change and its Impact on Bangladesh AgricultureArifu Rahman Siddhiqui 27 System of Rice Intensification SRI for sustainable Rice production-perspectivesSurendra Kumar Ghritlahre and DP Singh VI Bioenergy and Sustainable Development  28 Bioenergy Poverty and Hunger -Could Bioenergy be a total Disaster for those who are starvingN El Bassam 29 Use of Land suitability assessment and farm modelling to determine viability of agroforestry and bioelectricity generation in the western Cape South AfricaCCC Von Doderer and TE Kleynhans 30 Anaerobic digestion of animal wasteOmar Badran 31 Assessing land use options - Spatially explicit landscape modelling as tool in optimizing land use efficiencyChristoph Katsch 32Sustainable Horticulture in AfghanistanMohd Saalim Saaie.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crop Science and Land Use for Food and Bioenergy
• Publisher: Agrobios
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 819043098X
• ISBN 13: 9788190430982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: tables, figs