Boron in Soils and Plants - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Boron in Soils and Plants held at Chiang Mai, Thailand, 7-11 September, 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)

The economic significance of boron (B) in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry has been beyond dispute for several decades. Even in the last two decades, the areas where B deficiency limits plant production has grown with increased reports from China, south Asia and southeast Asia. The present volume is reflective of the growing awareness of the significance of low soil B with reports from Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, north, central and southern China, India, Nepal, and the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan contained herein. Boron deficiency also continues to be a problem for crop yield and quality in areas where B deficiency has been known for some time, for example in Germany and the USA. The problem of low soil B is not limited to effects on field crop yield, with papers reporting on depressed wood yield and quality in timber trees (Lambert et al. ), and depressed fruit quality (Dong et al. ; Smith et al. : Zude et al. ) also appearing in the present volume. Globally, Shorrocks (1997)1 estimates that ?? tonnes of B fertiliser is applied annually in agriculture. The economic benefits from the use of B fertiliser have not been quantified but are clearly enormous. Paradoxically, the clear economic imperatives for using B fertiliser on low B soils are not matched by a similar clarity of understanding of the role and functions of B in plants.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, 76
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	1997
Editors:	R.W. Bell • Benjavan Rerkasem
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
ISBN-13:	978-9401063449
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant physiology > General
LSN:	9401063443
Barcode:	9789401063449

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