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  title info:
    title: Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture
    sub title: Proceedings of the 15th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress and the 12th International Conference of the African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation
  name:
    name part: Dakora, Felix D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Chimphango, Samson B. M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Valentine, Alex J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Elmerich, Claudine.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Newton, William E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIX, 392 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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. The volume, therefore, describes the physiology and genomics of nitrogen-fixing bacteria together with the biochemistry and molecular genetics of the nitrogenase enzyme that actually fixes atmospheric nitrogen to a usable form. This volume, which covers the most recent data on the role of nitrogen fixation in agriculture and forestry and on the biology of both plants and nitrogen-fixing microbes, is intended to serve as a useful reference for students and researchers, both in the laboratory (academic and commercial) and in the field.
  table of contents: From the contents Preface. Dedication. Keynote Lecture -- Section 1. Towards Sustainable Agriculture. A. Crop Improvement and Sustainable Agriculture for Poverty Alleviation. B. Use of Inoculants. C. Tree Legumes and Forestry. E. Summary Presentations -- Section 2. Nodule Organogenesis and Plant Genomics. A. Host Response to Invasion. B. Nodule Physiology and Genetics. C. Plant Genomics and Transcriptomics. D. Bacterial Partner. E. Summary Presentations -- Section 3. Microbiology of Nitrogen Fixation. A. Genomics, Phylogeny, and Evolution. B. Rhizospere Associations. C. Enzymology and Genetics. D. Photosynthetic Nitrogen Fixers. E. Summary Presentations -- Author Index.
  note: edited by Felix D. Dakora, Samson B. M. Chimphango, Alex J. Valentine, Claudine Elmerich, William E. Newton.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Plant biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Microbial ecology
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genetics
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genomics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Genetics and Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Plant Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Ecology
  classification: QR1-502
  classification: 579
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, 42
  identifier: 9781402082528
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8252-8
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151125142038.0
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