Overview

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.

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Author:   F.D. Dakora ,  S.B.M. Chimphango ,  Alex J. Valentine ,  Claudine Elmerich
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2008
Volume:   42
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9789048178216

ISBN 10:   9048178215
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   22 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Role of Defects and Disorder in the Half-Metallic Full-Heusler Compounds.- Clustering in Heusler Alloys.- Anisotropy of Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys Thin Films.- Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Anderson Magnetic Impurities in Semiconductors.- New Type of Nanomaterials: Doped Magnetic Semiconductors Contained Ferrons, Antiferrons and Afmons.- Cerium-Doped Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films Prepared by Sol-Gel Process: Synthesis, Characterization, and Magnetic Properties.- Tuning the Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Manganite Thin Films by Epitaxial Strain.- Radiation Nanostructuring of Magnetic Crystals.- Electromagnetic Radiation of Micro and Nanomagnetic Structures with Magnetic Reversal.- Structural and Magnetic Properties and Preparation Techniques of Nanosized M-type Hexaferrite Powders.- Nanocrystallization and Surface Magnetic Structure of Ferromagnetic Ribbons and Microwires.- On Structural and Magnetic Properties of Fe73.5?x Si13.5B9Cu1Nb3Mn x Metal Alloys.- FeCoZr-Al2O3 Granular Nanocomposite Films with Tailored Structural, Electric, Magnetotransport and Magnetic Properties.- Ferromagnetism of Nanostructures Consisting of Ferromagnetic Granules with Dipolar Magnetic Interaction.- Magnetic Dipolar Interactions in Nanoparticle Systems: Theory, Simulations and Ferromagnetic Resonance.

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