To avoid loss of yield, crops must maintain tissue potassium (K) concentrations above 5–40
mg K (g DM)–1. The supply of K from the soil is often insufficient to meet this demand and, in …

In the coming decades, rice production needs to be carried out sustainably to keep the
balance between profitability margins and essential resource input costs. Many fertilizers …

This new edition provides current information on the nutritional requirements of world crops.
It presents research on the acquisition, accumulation, transport, and functions of chemical …

Increasing iron (Fe) concentration in food crops is an important global challenge due to high
incidence of Fe deficiency in human populations. Evidence is available showing that …

A field investigation on direct seeded rice (DSR) was carried out in the two consecutive rice
growing seasons of 2017 and 2018 at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India for the development …

A staple food for more than half of the world's population, rice is the third most important
cereal crop after wheat and corn. This book brings together a wealth of information on the …

The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on
environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of …

The present study was intended to isolate potassium-solubilizing bacteria (KSB) from paddy
rhizosphere soil. The isolates were obtained from 40 rice paddy fields across Mazandaran …

To study the effect of potassium nitrate, calcium nitrate and kaolin (Aluminum silicate) on
pomegranate cv. Wonderful, this study was conducted during 2020–2021 to investigate the …

Two field experiments were carried out separately to evaluate the ability of three plant
growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM, Pantoea ananatis, Enterobacter sp. and …