| Description |
xii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Preface -- -- 1. An appraisal of biofertilizers in India -- N.S. Subba Rao -- 2. Biofertilizers for sustainable crop production -- S. Kannaiyan -- 3. Biofertilizers for sustaining cereal crops production -- S.P. Wani and K.K. Lee -- 4. Azospirillum biofertilizer for rainfed crops -- K VB.R. Tilak and Geeta Singh -- 5. Biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and assimilation -- B. Thayumanavan and K Parvathy -- 6. Host gene expression in nodulation and nitrogen fixation -- S. Sadasivam and S. Krishnaveni -- 7. Physiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics of legume symbiosis -- FJ. Bergersen -- 8. Nitrogen fixation in Parasponia -- S. Sujatha Lilly and S. Kannaiyan -- 9. Production of Rhizobium biofertilizer -- Nantakorn Boonkerd and Paul Singleton -- 10. Biofertilizers for grain legumes -- G.P. Brahmaprakash and S. V Hedge -- 11. Role of plant flavonoids as signal molecules to Rhizobium -- S. Sundaravarathan and S. Kannaiyan -- 12. Nitrogen fixation by tree legumes -- D.L.N. Rao -- 13. Stem nodulating bacteria in legumes -- Darrell E. Fleischman -- 14. Nitrogen fixing potential of stem nodulating Sesbania rostrata for -- rice production -- S. Kanniayan -- -- -- -- -- 15. Influence of Azolla and Sesbania rostrata application on changes in -- microbial population and enzymes in rice soil -- S. Sundaravarathan and S. Kannaiyan -- 16. Green Manure potential of Sesbania rostrata for rice -- M. Becker, M. Ali, J.K. Ladha and J.C.G. Ottow -- 17. Endophytic nitrogen fixation in wheat -- B. Benvit Singh and S. Kannaiyan -- 18. A profile on algal biofertilizer -- S.K. Goyal -- 19. Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria and its potential applications -- S. Boussiba -- 20, Ecology of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria (Blue green algae) in rice fields -- N. Anand -- 21. Azolla as a biofertilizer in Africa: A challenge for the future -- Francisco Carrapico, Generosa Teixeira and M. Adelia Diniz -- 22. Ammonia production by the immobilized cyanobacteria for rice crop -- S. Kannaiyan -- 23. Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal biofertilizer for tropical forest plants -- D.J. Bagyaraj, VS. Mehrotra and C.K. Suresh -- 24. Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhiza as bioinoculant -- Geeta Singh and K. VB.R. Tilak -- 25. Microbial mobilization of phosphorus for higher crop production in arid soils -- A. V Rao and J.C. Tarafdar -- 26. Acetobacter diazotrophicus: A new and potential endophytic -- nitrogen fixing bacterium associated with sugarcane -- M. Thangaraju and P. Jayakumar -- 27. The cycad-cyanobacterial Symbiosis -- S. Sujatha Lilly and S. Kannaiyan -- 28. Ammonia production in rice paddies using immobilized cyanobacteria -- D.O, Hall, S. Kannaiyan and M. van der Leij |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Biofertilizers.
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Nitrogen -- Fixation.
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| Author |
Kannaiyan, S. (Sadasivam), 1944-
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| LC no. |
2003545070 |
| ISBN |
1842650998 |
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140200219X : |
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