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978-1-4020-8252-8

Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture

Publication Date: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8252-8

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This volume covers recent developments in both fundamental and applied research in biological nitrogen fixation. It emphasizes the application of biological nitrogen fixation for sustainable agriculture, which should lead to poverty alleviation, environmental protection, and good agricultural practices generally. The roles of, and advances in, plant breeding, plant molecular biology, nodule physiology, and symbiotic and associative interactions between plants and microbes in sustaining agricultural productivity and soil fertility are described. The evolution of symbioses and nitrogen fixation are also covered in this volume. To ensure high agricultural productivity, while protecting the environment (both soil and water resources), requires plant cultivars that also respond to beneficial microbes.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Soil fertility, Symbiose, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, environment, environmental protection, enzymes, evolution, genetics, microbe, microbiology, nitrogen, photosynthesis, physiology