Download or read book Nodulation and Nitrogen Fixation in Rice written by Gurdev S. Khush and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhizobium-legume interactions. Genesis of root nodules and the of host genes. Developmental aspects of the rhizobium-legume symbiosis. Host genetics of the nodulation phenotype. Hormones and nodule formation: cytokinin induction of the Sesbania rostrata early nodulin Enod2. Regul?ation of nodulation genes. Oligosaccharins - oligosaccharides with regulatory functions. The lipo-oligosaccharidic nodulation signals of Rhizobium meliloti. Role of exopolysaccharides in nodulation. Bacterial entry into roots. Nonlegume N2-fixing asociations. Symbiosis with frankia. Exploring new soil bacteria. Rhizobium nodulation of nonlegumes. Nodulation genes and biosynthesis of inodule acetic acid (IAA) in Azospirillum brasilense. Ammonium excretion by NilflL mutants of Azotobacter vinelandii. Genetics of associative nitrogen fixation in wheat. Potential for development of novel N2-fixing associations. Potential andlimitations of developing new plant-microbe interactions. Application of present knowledge on rhizobial host specificity to obtain efficientnodulation and nitrogen fixation of rice. Genetic transformation of rice and molecular basic of agroinfection. Nitrogen fixation in para-nodulated wheat. Invasion of nonlegume plants by diazotrophic bacteria. Development of nodulelike structure on rice roots.
Download or read book The Quest for Nitrogen Fixation in Rice written by Jagdish Kumar Ladha and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the latest research advances made in developing nitrogen-fixing rice.
Download or read book Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non Legumes written by J.K. Ladha and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Second Working Group Meeting of the Frontier Project on Nitrogen Fixation in Rice held in Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996
Download or read book Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Rice Production written by Sisir K. Dutta and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Rice Production written by Mustafizur Rahman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) has become important in rice farming systems because this process diminishes the need for expensive chemical fertilizers which have been associated with numerous health and environmental problems. The extensive exploitation of BNF would provide economic benefits to small farmers, avoiding all malign influences of chemical fertilizers. Meanwhile, advances in biotechnology have brought rice genetics to the threshold of new opportunities for increasing rice production. This volume focuses, in six different sessions, on the role of BNF in the improvement of rice production in the light of the current state of the art of BNF technology transfer and diffusion. New ideas on BNF technology in research, extension information and inoculant technology are also included, together with the socio-economic impacts of using BNF in rice farm systems.
Download or read book Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non legumes written by Jagdish Kumar Ladha and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at the advances in understanding symbiotic Rhizobium-legume interactions at the molecular level, the discovery of endophytic interactions of nitrogen-fixing organisms with non-legumes and the ability to introduce new genes into rice through transformation. This has created an opportunity to investigate the possibilities for incorporating N2 fixation capability in rice. During a think-tank workshop organized by IRRI in 1992, the participants reaffirmed that such opportunities do exist for cereals and recommended that rice be used as a model system. Subsequently, IRRI developed a New Frontier Project to co-ordinate the worldwide collaborative efforts among research centers committed to reducing dependency of rice on mineral N resources. An international Rice Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) working group was established to review, share research results/materials, and to catalyze research.
Download or read book Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non legumes written by J. K. Ladha and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation written by P. Graham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past three decades there has been a large amount of research on biological nitrogen fixation, in part stimulated by increasing world prices of nitrogen-containing fertilizers and environmental concerns. In the last several years, research on plant--microbe interactions, and symbiotic and asymbiotic nitrogen fixation has become truly interdisciplinary in nature, stimulated to some degree by the use of modern genetic techniques. These methodologies have allowed us to make detailed analyses of plant and bacterial genes involved in symbiotic processes and to follow the growth and persistence of the root-nodule bacteria and free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria in soils. Through the efforts of a large number of researchers we now have a better understanding of the ecology of rhizobia, environmental parameters affecting the infection and nodulation process, the nature of specificity, the biochemistry of host plants and microsymbionts, and chemical signalling between symbiotic partners. This volume gives a summary of current research efforts and knowledge in the field of biological nitrogen fixation. Since the research field is diverse in nature, this book presents a collection of papers in the major research area of physiology and metabolism, genetics, evolution, taxonomy, ecology, and international programs.
Download or read book Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture written by African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Conference and published by IITA. This book was released on 1992-10-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological nitrogen fixation in tropical agrosystems: twenty years of biological nitrogen fixation research in Africa; Sustainable agriculture: definition and measurement; Biological nitrogen fixation systems in tropical ecosystems: an overview; A protocol for screening legumes as soil-improving crops; The sustenance of tropical agriculture with multipurpose azolla; Facteurs pedoclimatiques limitant la lixation biologique l'azole; Response of some tropical nitrogen-fixing woody legumes to drought and inoculation with mycorrhiza; Improvement to the Phaseolus/Rhizobium symbiosis, with particular reference to the Caribbean region; Effect of pest management systems on biological nitrogen fixation; Agronomic evaluation of a rock phosphate as a phosphorus source for Leucaena leucocephala grown on an utisol; Nodulation of soybean grown under field conditions and inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains; Effect of fertilization and Rhizobium inoculation on the growth of Leucaena and Gliricidia on an alfisol in south-western Nigeria; Early growth and nodulation in Leucaena and Gliricidia and the effects or pruning on biomass productivity; Comparative stude on the growth and productivity of Sesbania and Leucaena in the Central Plateau region, Rwanda; Supernoculation and non-nodulation mutants of soybean; Genetically improved rhizobia and their use in agriculture; Sustainability of nitrogen-fixing cropping systems: Nodulation and nitrogen fixation and transfer in a cowpea/rice cropping system; The role of legumes in sustaiing soil productivity and controlling soil erosion; Fitting soil-improving legumes into inland valley rice-baes cropping systems in West Africa; Herbage yield and soil fertility restoration potential of some tropical forage legumes.
Download or read book Current Developments in Biological Nitrogen Fixation written by N. S. Subba Rao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the most recent advances in biological nitrogen fixation, with chapters written by experts on the ecology, physiology, biochemistry and genetics of biological nitrogen fixation.
Download or read book Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non Legumes written by Springer and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management of Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the Development of More Productive and Sustainable Agricultural Systems written by J.K. Ladha and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1995-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted from Plant and Soil, v.174, nos.1-2 (1995), this volume is devoted to discussions on the role of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in agricultural sustainability. Papers presented on BNF in crop forage and tree legumes are augmented with discussion of integrated farming systems involving BNF, soil and N management, and recycling of legume residues. BNF by non-legumes is discussed and attempts to transform cereals into nodulating plants are critically reviewed. Also described are advances in the development of new methodologies to understand symbiotic interactions and to assess N-2 fixation in the field; means of enhancing BNF through plant and soil management; breeding and selection; problems encountered in exploiting BNF under farmers' field conditions; and promising approaches to improve BNF exploitation. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Investigation of the Potential for Nitrogen Fixation in Rice written by Shinobu Uehara and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opportunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non Legumes written by J.K. Ladha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the next 30 years, farmers must produce 70% more rice than the 550 millions tons produced today to feed the increasing population. Nitrogen (N) is the nutrient that most frequently limits rice production. At current levels ofN use efficiency, we will require at least double the 10 million tons of N fertilizer that are currently used each year for rice production. Global agriculture now relies heavily on N fertilizers derived from petroleum, which, in turn, is vulnerable to political and economic fluctuations in the oil markets. N fertilizers, therefore, are expensive inputs, costing agriculture more than US$45 billion annually. Rice suffers from a mismatch of its N demand and N supplied as fertilizer, resulting in a 50-70% loss of applied N fertilizer. Two basic approaches may be used to solve this problem One is to regulate the timing ofN application based on needs of the plants, thus partly increasing the efficiency of the plants' use of applied N. The other is to increase the ability of the rice system to fix its own N. The latter approach is a long-term strategy, but it would have enormous environmental benefits while helping resource-poor farmers. Furthermore, farmers more easily adopt a genotype or variety with useful traits than they do crop and soil management practices that may be associated with additional costs.
Download or read book Biological Nitrogen Fixation written by Frans J. de Bruijn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 2250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrogen is arguably the most important nutrient required by plants. However, the availability of nitrogen is limited in many soils and although the earth's atmosphere consists of 78.1% nitrogen gas (N2) plants are unable to use this form of nitrogen. To compensate , modern agriculture has been highly reliant on industrial nitrogen fertilizers to achieve maximum crop productivity. However, a great deal of fossil fuel is required for the production and delivery of nitrogen fertilizer. Moreover carbon dioxide (CO2) which is released during fossil fuel combustion contributes to the greenhouse effect and run off of nitrate leads to eutrophication of the waterways. Biological nitrogen fixation is an alternative to nitrogen fertilizer. It is carried out by prokaryotes using an enzyme complex called nitrogenase and results in atmospheric N2 being reduced into a form of nitrogen diazotrophic organisms and plants are able to use (ammonia). It is this process and its major players which will be discussed in this book. Biological Nitrogen Fixation is a comprehensive two volume work bringing together both review and original research articles on key topics in nitrogen fixation. Chapters across both volumes emphasize molecular techniques and advanced biochemical analysis approaches applicable to various aspects of biological nitrogen fixation. Volume 1 explores the chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogenases, nif gene regulation, the taxonomy, evolution, and genomics of nitrogen fixing organisms, as well as their physiology and metabolism. Volume 2 covers the symbiotic interaction of nitrogen fixing organisms with their host plants, including nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation, plant and microbial "omics", cyanobacteria, diazotrophs and non-legumes, field studies and inoculum preparation, as well as nitrogen fixation and cereals. Covering the full breadth of current nitrogen fixation research and expanding it towards future advances in the field, Biological Nitrogen Fixation will be a one-stop reference for microbial ecologists and environmental microbiologists as well as plant and agricultural researchers working on crop sustainability.
Download or read book Oppertunities for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice and Other Non Legumes written by J.K.(Eds.) Ladha and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Nitrogen Fixation in the Rhizosphere of Low land Rice written by Michael Robert Boddey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acetylene reduction technique was developed for estimating in situ the nitrogenase activity in the rhizosphere of lowland rice. The technique involves the use of only cheap and lighweight equipment, and is quick to set up. A comparison of this technique with the excised root assay, revealed little correlation of the results. This was attributed to the artifacts introduced by the long pre-incubation in the latter technique, including a 40 fold increase in the numbers of nitrogen-fix ng bacteria this period. Comparisons of the nitrogenase activity in the rhizosphere of different tice varieties at the same growth stage on different soils revelead very little differences between varieties or soils, especially when activity was expressed per unit weight of plantNitrogenase activity per plant was maximal at the flowering and early grain filling stages, but when the data was expressed per unit weight of plant, young plants had the highest activity. Increased temperature caused increased nitrogenase activity, but at constant temperature there was little diurnal flucutation in activity caused by the presence or absence of light. Estimates of the quantity of nitrogen fixed during the entire cropping season based on data from the in situ acetylene reduction assay indicated that the input did not exceed 6 kg N.ha-1. It is possible however, that the in situ technique used does not detect much of the nitrogenase activity in the soil some distance from the root (the outer rhizosphere). Nitrogenase activity in the rhizosphere.
