Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop production

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80146-470-3
Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 150, 400 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 806 g

Reihe: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

In the last 60 years fertiliser use in agriculture has increased by 900%. However, it’s been reported that up to 80% of these fertilisers are not utilised by crops but are lost to the environment as nitrous oxide, ammonia and nitrate. Improving nitrogen use efficiency is recognised as one possible solution to reducing the sector’s environmental impact and optimising its productivity and sustainability in the face of increasing pressure to feed a growing population.

Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop production reviews recent advances in understanding nitrogen cycling in soil and best practices to assess crop nitrogen status, such as the use of proximal sensors and remote sensing techniques. The book considers developments in the use of inorganic nitrogen fertilisers and their effectiveness in optimising nitrogen use efficiency, as well as how more organic sources of nitrogen, such as livestock manure, can be optimised to achieve the same goal.

Zielgruppe

Researchers in agricultural and environmental science, government and other agencies advising on fertiliser use and its environmental impact, farmers, agronomists; as well as companies manufacturing fertilisers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner-Riddle, Cl

Ladha, Adjunct Professor Jagdish Kumar

Ladha, Adjunct Jagdish Kumar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wagner-Riddle, Professor Claudia

Kaiser, Professor Brent

Raghuram, Professor Nandula

Tubana, Professor Brenda

Rahman, Dr Mizanur

Singh, Dr Bijay

Chen, Professor Deli

Janke, Dr Chelsea K.

Van Es, Professor Harold

Hashemi, Professor Masoud

Franzluebbers, Dr Alan

V. Cronin, Dr Iris

Chmelikova, Dr Lucie

Pannell, Professor David

Adhya, Dr T. K.

Ciampitti, Professor Ignacio

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrartechnik, Landmaschinen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Understanding nitrogen cycling in crop production
- 1.Advances in understanding nitrogen cycling in soil: Claudia Wagner-Riddle, University of Guelph, Canada
- 2.Advances in understanding crop plant growth and nitrogen use efficiency: Brent Kaiser, University of Sydney, Australia
- 3.Challenges and opportunities in breeding for improving nitrogen use efficiency in crops: Nandula Raghuram, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India
- 4.A new paradigm for improving the effective use of nitrogen (N) on major field crops: Ignacio Ciampitti, Kansas State University, USA

Part 2 Monitoring and optimising nitrogen use
- 5.Developments in proximal sensors to detect crop nitrogen status: Brenda Tubana, Louisiana State University, USA
- 6.Matching/synchronising nitrogen fertiliser application to crop nitrogen needs: Bijay Singh, Punjab Agricultural University, India
- 7.Developments in the use of enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilisers including new generation of fertilisers: Deli Chen, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 8.Assessing the effectiveness of sub-surface/deep banding nitrogen fertiliser application: Chelsea Janke, University of Queensland, Australia
- 9.Advances in modelling/decision support systems for optimising nitrogen fertiliser application: Harold Van Es, Cornell University, USA
- 10.Economic perspectives on nitrogen in cropping systems: David Pannell, University of Western Australia, Australia

Part 3 Organic sources of nitrogen
- 11.Optimising livestock manure as a source of nitrogen and other nutrients: Masoud Hashemi, University of Massachusetts, USA
- 12.Improving soil management to optimise nitrogen use efficiency: Alan Franzluebbers, USDA-ARS, USA
- 13.Optimising cover crops and intercrops as a source of nitrogen: Iris V. Cronin, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 14.The role of rotations and/or break crops in optimising nitrogen use efficiency: Lucie Chmelikova, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Über Autor(innen)

Chen, Professor Deli
Professor Deli Chen is the discipline leader in the Soil and the Environment Research Group, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Director of ARC Research Hub for Smart Fertilisers, and Director of the Australia China Joint Research Centre, Healthy Soils for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Quality. He has expertise in water and nutrient dynamics in plant-soil systems, GIS based agroecosystem modelling and decision support systems for optimal irrigation and fertilizer management, and the measures, models and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions from land sources, enhanced efficiency N fertilizers, agricultural ‘big data’ and sustainable indices.

Pannell, Professor David
David Pannell is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia; Director, Co-Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy; ARC Federation Fellow (2007-2012); Distinguished Fellow and past president of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; and a Director of Natural Decisions Pty Ltd. His research includes the economics of land, water and nature conservation; environmental policy; farmer adoption of conservation practices; risk; and economics of farming systems. David has won awards for his research in the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK, including the 2009 Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Research.

Janke, Dr Chelsea K.
Dr Janke is a soil scientist with a research focus on understanding the interaction of soil bio-physico-chemical properties with nutrient cycling and availability. She is interested in identifying solutions for sustainable agricultural production which both counter and future-proof against changing climates.

Raghuram, Professor Nandula
Dr N. Raghuram is a Professor and Founder-Head of the Centre for Sustainable Nitrogen and Nutrient management, School of Biotechnology, Guru Gobind Singh University, New Delhi. He was formerly the Dean of Biotechnology and Chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI). He edited several special issues of international journals on NUE and sustainable N management, and currently is the Editor in Chief of Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants. He is a steering committee member of the UNEP Global partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM).

Ladha, Adjunct Professor Jagdish Kumar
Professor Jagdish Kumar Ladha is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California-Davis, USA and is internationally renowned for his pioneering research on sustainable resource use in agriculture. In addition to numerous awards for his research, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Indian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Crop Science Society of America, the American Society of Agronomy, and the Soil Science Society of America. Professor Ladha is also co-Editor in Chief of Field Crops Research.

Franzluebbers, Dr Alan
Dr. Alan Franzluebbers is a Research Ecologist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh NC. He has more than 30 years of research experience starting with a master’s program in Nebraska, PhD in Texas, post-doctoral position in Alberta Canada, and as a full-time soil scientist in Georgia and now in North Carolina. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Forage and Grassland Council and served in the past on the Board of Directors for the Soil Science Society of America. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America.