Introductory Soil Chemistry, Fertility And Microbiology
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Introductory Soil Chemistry, Fertility And Microbiology
Introductory Soil Chemistry, Fertility And Microbiology
This note deals with the meaning and explanation of the basic
principles of soil chemistry, fertility and microbiology. Explanations were also
given on the basic concepts of these fields of soil science. This note focused
on: soil phases, cation exchange capacity and base saturation, soil acidity and
liming, nutrient movement in soils,nutrient uptake mechanisms, chemistry, status
and availability of essential nutrients in soils.
This book explains the following topics: General Analytical Processes,
Analysis of Mineral Phosphates, General Methods for Phosphoric Acid, The Citrate
Method,Volumetric Determination of Phosphoric Acid, Titration of the Yellow
Precipitate, Chemistry of the Manufacture of Superphosphates.
This book is a collection of ten original research
articles and reports, associated with selected topics in agricultural chemistry.
The discussed issues are organized in four sections: Classification and labeling
of active substances in plant protection products, Environmental and stress
plant physiology and behavior, Antimicrobial and antioxidant potential of plant
extracts, and Pollutants analysis and effects.
Agricultural chemistry is a subject presenting two quite
distinct lines of study. The study of soils and fertilizers, including the
relation of the plant to its soil food, is almost wholly inorganic and physical.
On the other hand, the study of plants and animals as living organisms is as
distinctly organic and physiological, embracing the greater part of what is
termed Biochemistry. This has led the author to prepare one part of a textbook
of General Agricultural Chemistry with this distinction in view, and to
designate it as Organic Agricultural Chemistry The Chemistry of Plants and
Animals.