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Practical Application of Azolla for Rice Production :

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9400962010

(Number (ISBN

9400962037

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9789400962019

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9789400962033

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b593638

Title Proper

Practical Application of Azolla for Rice Production :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

Proceedings of an International Workshop, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, November 17-19, 1982

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by W.S. Silver, E.C. Schröder.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1984

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(240 pages)

Series Title

Developments in plant and soil sciences, 13.

Text of Note

1. Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis: Basic Biology, Use and Prospects for the future.- First Section: Basic Studies.- 2. Formation and breakdown of Azolla polypeptides in paddy soils.- 3. Determining N2 fixation and N input in Azolla grown with and without combined nitrogen sources: keeping the acetylene reduction assay in the proper perspective.- 4. Recent advances on Azolla research.- 5. Sporocarp germination, cytology and mineral nutrition of Azolla species.- 6. Azolla pinnata var. africana. Background, ecophysiology, plots assays.- 7. A scanning electron microscopic view of sporulation in Azolla mexicana Presl.- 8. Planning Azolla research for the 1980's.- Second Section: Applied Studies.- 9. Azolla, a water saver in irrigated rice fields?.- 10. Azolla - A potential biofertilizer for rice production.- 11. Comparative study of six species of Azolla in relation to their utilization as green manure for rice.- 12. Azolla bio-fertilization to increase rice production with emphasis on dual cropping.- 13. Manuring of rice crop with Azolla.- 14. Phosphorus removal by Azolla caroliniana cultured in nutrient enriched waters.- 15. Utilization of radioactive phosphorus (32P) by Azolla-Anabaena and its transfer to rice plants.- 16. A study of the availability of biologically fixed atmospheric dinitrogen by Azolla-Anabaena complesx to the flooded rice crops.- Third Section: Country Studies.- 17. Azolla for rice production in Thailand.- 18. Azolla as a biofertilizer for rice in Sri Lanka.- 19. Azolla in West Africa: First results from the WARDA Program.- Fourth Section: Abstracts.- 20. Response of rice to nitrogen fertilization in Puerto Rico.- 21. Research on the mass culture of Azolla caroliniana and A. filiculoides in Italy.- 22. Practical utility of Azolla in Samba season in Thanjavur Delta.- 23. Azolla for rice production in tropical Africa.- 24. Evaluation of the Azolla-Anabaena association effect on the dry matter production and total N of Setaria sphacelata cv. Kazungula.- 25. Phosphorus nutrition in Azolla.- Fifth Section: Round Table.- 26. Conclusions.- List of participants.- Author index.- Key words index.

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Proceedings of an International Workshop, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, November 17-19, 1982

Azolla as fertilizer -- Congresses.

Azolla as fertilizer.

Rice -- Fertilizers -- Congresses.

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edited by W.S. Silver, E.C. Schröder.

E C Schröder

W S Silver

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