Download or read book Grain Yield Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Carbon Assimilation and Phosphorus Nutrition of Common Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris L Varieties in Response to Rhizobium Inoculation and Phosphorus Application in Ethiopia written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, poor mineral nutrient availability, particularly N and P, constitutes a major constraint in crop production.The application of inorganic fertilizer is not always possible for resource-poor farmers. The inclusion of grain legumes with a capacity for high N2 fixation is a promising approach to alleviate nutrient deficiency and increases crop productivity. This study evaluated the effects of rhizobial inoculation an P fertilisation on yield components, symbiotic performance, C accumulation and phosphatase enzyme activity in the rhizosphere and plant organ of common bean varieties in Ethiopia.
Download or read book Legume Nitrogen Fixation in Soils with Low Phosphorus Availability written by Saad Sulieman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful and provocative book provides a concise, up-to-date presentation of how current and projected future phosphorus scarcity will affect legume growth and their symbiotic nitrogen-fixing capabilities. It is a timely examination of the physiological and molecular responses of nodules to phosphorous deficiency in attempt to identify common principles. Students and researchers in the many disciplines related to crop productivity will find this title an exciting contribution in the area of plant stress physiology. The knowledge in this volume can also aid plant breeders, particularly through new methods of genetic engineering, in developing unique and adaptive cultivars with higher symbiotic efficiency. The awareness of the rapidly rising world population must translate into a parallel increase in agricultural production in order to sustain the growing population both now and in the future. Hence, the demand for food crops to produce proteins and vegetable oil for human consumption is going to increase considerably during the coming years. The essential role of legumes in agriculture is well-recognized, given the abundant levels of proteins and oils found in plants along with their enormous contribution to the sustainability of agricultural systems and human health. The capacity of legumes to fix nitrogen (N2) in partnership with rhizobia provides an input-saving and resource-conserving alternative, thereby reducing the need for chemical fertilizers while enhancing overall crop productivity. The use of N2-fixing legumes to produce plant proteins results in a substantial decrease in the consumption of fossil fuels and therefore also in the agricultural effects to global warming. However, a major constraint to legume production is low soil phosphorus (P) availability, considering that an overwhelming majority of the world’s soils are classified as P-deficient. Low-P availability is especially problematic for legumes, since legume nodules responsible for N2 fixation have a high P requirement. Therefore, this book explains how nodule N2 fixation responds to low P availability, which is crucial for improving legume production and maintaining agricultural sustainability in the context of the global P crisis.
Download or read book Technical Handbook on Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General information on the symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Isolation, identification and counting of rhizobia. Production of an inoculant and inoculation of legumes. Experiments.
Download or read book Root Shallowness of Common Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris L Effects on Low input Agroecosystems Productivity in the Tropics written by Soares Xerinda and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable agriculture should maintain production at levels necessary to meet the increasing needs of an expanding world population without degrading the environment. Low phosphorus (P) availability is a primary constraint to plant productivity in both natural forest lands and agro-ecosystems. P nutrition is very important for biological N fixation which has been promoted in many farming systems using non-edible or edible crops. Root architectural traits that enhance topsoil foraging increase P acquisition in several crops including common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). P efficient common bean is an edible crop that besides of having superior P acquisition efficiency in low P soils, also can fix atmospheric nitrogen to reduce N deficiency in soils; having better P and N nutrition P-efficient beans can grow faster and more vigorously than P-inefficient bean. Therefore, they can protect better the soil in slopping lands that are common in the major bean growing areas of Africa and Latin America. Maize/bean polyculture is an important cropping system in developing countries in which most farmers often cultivate common bean poor soils characterized by low phosphorus (P) availability. In this context we determined important to test three hypotheses in this study as follow: (1) root architectural traits that increase P acquisition in bean will also enhance nodulation and biological N fixation; (2) bean cultivars with root traits enhancing P acquisition can improve bean yields but could decrease maize yields because of altered below-and-aboveground competition; (3) topsoil exploration have greater phosphorus (P) acquisition than conventional genotypes, but long term depletion of soil P by more efficient acquisition may be counteracted by lower soil erosion from greater crop biomass and canopy cover. Bean genotypes with contrasting root architecture in the three studies conducted in USA -- Pennsylvania State University (PSU) Agriculture Research Farm, Mozambique in Lichinga Research Station of the Agrarian Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM), and in the Republic of South Africa at the Ukulima Root Biology Center. For the Symbiotic nitrogen fixation study we found that, compared with P-inefficient genotypes, P-efficient genotypes had 24.8% greater growth and 39% greater symbiotic N2 fixation under low P. They also had 41% greater nodulation and 57% greater nodule activity than P-inefficient genotypes under low P conditions. For the conservation study, the shallow-rooted genotypes had greater shoot biomass, canopy cover, and less erosion than deep-rooted genotypes. And for the maize/bean competition study was determined that under high P, the bean monoculture yielded approximately 3.8 Mg ha-1 regardless of root phenotype, but under low P the shallow-rooted and deep-rooted bean categories had yield reductions of 55.3 and 75.5%, respectively. Under low P in polyculture, the shallow-rooted bean yield was 1.04 Mg ha-1 which was 43.3% greater than the yield of the deep-rooted phenotypes. We conclude that bean genotypes with root traits permitting greater P acquisition can also fix more atmospheric nitrogen, consequently attain better shoot growth which also result in greater grain yield; more robust plants makes better canopy cover, and reduces soil P lost to water erosion in low P tropical soils. There is need for selection of appropriate matches of root systems in low-input polycultures. Breeding efforts to generate seeds of plants with efficient root system is very important since can result in better nutrient use and higher crop productivity in poor soils, generating some income to that can be used to purchase fertilizer by poor farmers to start more profitable agriculture.
Download or read book Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics written by Pedro A. Sanchez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.
Download or read book Differential Response Among Bean Varieties Phaseolus Vulgaris L to Nitrogen and Phosphorus written by Wayne Leroy Haag and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The response of several varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris L. to nitrogen and phosphorus was investigated under field and greenhouse conditions. Much variability in response was found for yield and the yield components. Response to fertilizer could not be predicted from values obtained prior to application. Different patterns of yield component response occurred among the varieties. Varieties responded differentially to P, but not to N. The simple effect of n was much greater than the simple effect of P.
Download or read book Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Carbon Accumulation and Delta C Thirteen of Field grown Common Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris L Varieties in Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces in South Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the effects of N-fertiliser application and planting time on plant growth, symbiotic performance, C accumulation, and water use efficiency in field-grown common bean in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces of South Africa.
Download or read book Limitations on Nitrogen Fixation of Common Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris L Compared with Other Grain Legumes written by Melvyn Isaac Piha and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa written by Nteranya Sanginga and published by CIAT. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forward. A call for integrated soil fertility management in Africa. Introduction. ISFM and the African farmer. Part I. The principles of ISFM: ISFM as a strategic goal, Fertilizer management within ISFM, Agro-minerals in ISFM, Organic resource management, ISFM, soil biota and soil health. Part II. ISFM practices: ISFM products and fields practices, ISFM practice in drylands, ISFM practice in savannas and woodlands, ISFM practice in the humid forest zone, Conservation Agriculture. Part III. The process of implementing ISFM: soil fertility diagnosis, soil fertility management advice, Dissemination of ISFM technologies, Designing an ISFM adoption project, ISFM at farm and landscape scales. Part IV. The social dimensions of ISFM: The role of ISFM in gender empowerment, ISFM and household nutrition, Capacity building in ISFM, ISFM in the policy arena, Marketing support for ISFM, Advancing ISFM in Africa. Appendices: Mineral nutrient contents of some common organic resources.
Download or read book Understanding the Genetic Basis of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Common Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris L Using Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses written by Kelvin Kamfwa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems written by K. E. Giller and published by CABI. This book was released on 2001 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants is especially important when farmers are trying to minimise fertilizer use for cost or environmental reasons. This second edition of the highly successful book, first published in 1991, contains thoroughly updated and revised material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems.
Download or read book Acidity Factors Limiting Nodulation Nitrogen Fixation and Growth of PHaseolus Vulgaris L written by Avílio Antonio Franco and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is extensively grown in tropical regions, mostly in developing countries without use of N-fertilizer. However, root nodulation and N2-fixation has been found variable under acidic conditions, when soil is used as growth medium. Conditions and techniques for achieving good nodulation of bean in continuous aerated solution culture were developed. The effects of pH on uptake and distribution of Mo in bean were studied in greenhouse and growth chamber experiments in soil and solution culture. The effects of pH and Al on nodule initiation and growth, nitrogen fixation (C2H2-reduction) and shoot and root growth were studied in solution and san culture. Growth and nitrogenase activity of nodule and plant growth in solution culture were atleast as good as in gravel. However, nodule initiation was restricted to plants inoculated before or imediately after transfer of seedlings to solution and was restricted to the roots already present before transfer. Lack of nodulation could not be explained by failure of bacteria to colonize the root or absence of root hairs. There were indications that the P-status of the plant together with a factor or factors that had to accumulate or deplete in solution, determined success or failure of nodulation. Daily application of 0.5-1.0 mg N per plant delayed nodule growth and nitrogen fixation slightly, but increased plant growth and alleviated the severe N-deficiency stress before the onset of N2-fixation. In six cultivars, Mo uptake in solution culture was ...
Download or read book Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture Forestry Ecology and the Environment written by Dietrich Werner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability has a major part to play in the global challenge of continued development of regions, countries, and continents all around the World and biological nitrogen fixation has a key role in this process. This volume begins with chapters specifically addressing crops of major global importance, such as soybeans, rice, and sugar cane. It continues with a second important focus, agroforestry, and describes the use and promise of both legume trees with their rhizobial symbionts and other nitrogen-fixing trees with their actinorhizal colonization. An over-arching theme of all chapters is the interaction of the plants and trees with microbes and this theme allows other aspects of soil microbiology, such as interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the impact of soil-stress factors on biological nitrogen fixation, to be addressed. Furthermore, a link to basic science occurs through the inclusion of chapters describing the biogeochemically important nitrogen cycle and its key relationships among nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification. The volume then provides an up-to-date view of the production of microbial inocula, especially those for legume crops.
Download or read book Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation written by Rachid Serraj and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Workshop on Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Increased Crop Productivity, Enhanced Human Health and Sustained Soil Fertility was held in June 2002 at ENSAM-INRA, Montpellier, France. The main goal of the workshop was to define research strategies for a Challenge Program initiative on Biological Nitrogen Fixation, and develop a pre-proposal based on the concept note submitted and approved by the CGIAR iSC. More than 35 participants from various scientific disciplines, research institutions and from four different continents (Africa, Asia, Americas and Europe) attended the workshop. This book, based on the proceedings of the workshop, takes a holistic approach to harnessing legume BNF technologies, starting from a socioeconomic perspective, and progressing to agronomic and genetic options, and bringing together innovative aspects and participatory research strategies.
Download or read book Nitrogen Fixation in Acacias written by John Brockwell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2. The plant; 3. The bacteria; 4. The symbiosis; 5. Enhancement of the symbiosis; 6. Exploitation of the symbiosis; 7. General conclusions and prognosis.
Download or read book Domestication Fertilization and Nodulation written by Gwendolyn Fry and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Latin American common bean) is a leguminous crop that is significant in the life histories of both human civilization and nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia. These associations are evident from the impacts they have left on the genome of the common bean. As a legume, the common bean has several genes that code for the initiation and maintenance of mutualistic endosymbiosis with rhizobia. Over the course of its domestication and cultivation, the common bean has also undergone simultaneous artificial selection and multiple bottlenecks. As it exists in commercial agriculture, crops of common bean lack within-population genetic diversity and are widely considered poor at facilitating nitrogen fixation. Recent studies suggest nitrogen fertilization to be key in the decline of nodulation in cultivars of common bean. In addition, preliminary research suggests that wild lineages of bean have greater numbers of nodules. However, these data do not directly compare proxies of nitrogen fixation, like nodulation, with genotype and the presence of nitrogen fertilizer. I hypothesized that bean accession would be a more significant factor than nitrogen presence in determining the ability to facilitate nitrogen fixation. Through a randomized block greenhouse experiment that observed the variables of accession and nitrogen treatment, I found that both nitrogen fertilization and genotype were significant contributors to root:shoot ratio, nodule number, and chlorophyll content index (CCI) in common bean. However, bean genotype was more significant in determining ability to facilitate nitrogen fixation.
Download or read book Fighting Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa The Multiple Roles of Legumes in Integrated Soil Fertility Management written by Andre Bationo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legumes play an important role in the cropping systems of sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Legumes are an important source of nutrition to both humans and livestock by providing the much needed protein, minerals, fibre and vitamins. The sale of legumes seed, leaves and fibre generates income for the marginalized communities especially women. Cultivation of legumes is essential for the regeneration of nutrient-deficient soils. By biologically fixing nitrogen (BNF) in the soil, legumes provide a relatively low-cost method of replacing otherwise expensive inorganic nitrogen in the soil. This enhances soil fertility and boosts subsequent cereal crop yields. Production of legumes in SSA is however; hampered by a number of constraints among them low and declining soil fertility, low soil pH, high salinity, drought and flooding, poor access to improved germplasm, diseases, pests and weeds. Farmers need to learn how to overcome these constraints if the full benefits of legumes are to be gained. This book presents a synthesis of research work on legumes and draws attention to the importance of legumes in integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) and poverty alleviation in SSA.
