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The root systems in sustainable agricultural intensification/

"With the global population predicted to increase to at least 9 billion by 2050, agriculture needs to sustainably intensify food production by increasing efficiency of water and nutrient resource use to nourish the increasing world population. This challenge needs to be met while agriculture is...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley Online Library (Online service)
Group Author: Rengel, Zdenko; Djalovic, Ivica
Published: Wiley,
Publisher Address: Hoboken, NJ :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Roots (Botany)
Plants > Water requirements.
Plant-soil relationships.
Sustainable agriculture.
Electronic books.
Online Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119525417
Summary: "With the global population predicted to increase to at least 9 billion by 2050, agriculture needs to sustainably intensify food production by increasing efficiency of water and nutrient resource use to nourish the increasing world population. This challenge needs to be met while agriculture is faced with increasingly severe shortages of good-quality water to be used for irrigation as well as increased frequency and severity of droughts in the rain-fed food-producing areas due to climate change and variability. On the other side, raw materials used in producing some fertilizers (eg. P and K) are becoming scarce and expensive, and the price of energy is also high (production of N fertilizers is particularly energy demanding), pushing fertilizer prices up. As a result, agriculture must produce more food, feed and fibre with lower water and nutrient inputs, with roots being a crucial component of this increased water- and nutrient-use efficiency to underpin sustainable intensification"--
Item Description: Description based on print version record.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Also available in print.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781119525417 (electronic bk.)
9781119525387
9781119525431
9781119525400
Index Number: QK644
CLC: Q944.54
Contents: Sustainable Intensification: Meaning, Need, Components, and Role of Root Systems -- Genetic and Molecular Regulation of Root Growth and Development -- Plant Roots for Sustainable Soil Structure Management in Cropping Systems -- Dynamics of Root Systems in Crop and Pasture Genotypes over the Last 100 Years: Lessons Learned -- Interplay between Root Structure and Function in Enhancing Efficiency of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Acquisition -- Root-Microbe Interactions Influencing Water and Nutrient Acquisition Efficiency -- The Interplay between Roots and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Influencing Water and Nutrient Acquisition and Use Efficiency -- Role of Seed Priming in Root Development and Crop Production -- Water Uptake in Drying Soil: Balancing Supply and Demand -- Winter Wheat and Summer Maize Roots in Agro-Ecosystems on the North China Plain -- Intercropping to Maximize Root-Root Interactions in Agricultural Plants: Soil-Root Interface Processes -- Intercropping to Maximize Root-Root Interactions in Agricultural Plants: Agronomic Aspects -- The 3-D Imaging of Roots Growing in Soil -- Simulating the Diversity and Plasticity of Root Systems Using 3D Models of the Root System Architecture -- Phenotyping-Modelling Interfaces to Advance Breeding for Optimized Crop Root.

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