Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture. The Science Citation Index, 1986, reports an impact factor over 2,459 and a cited half-life over 10 years. Volume 76 contains five excellent reviews on topics of great interest to crop and soil scientists as well as others in various fields. Chapter 1 is concerned with the potential of tropical soils to sequester carbon. Topics that are covered include soil inorganic and organic pools and dynamics, loss of soil organic pools from tropical soils, and potential for C sequestration in tropical soils. Chapter 2 covers the applications of crop/soil simulation models in tropical agricultural systems. Chapter 3 deals with interorganismal signaling in suboptimum environments with emphasis on legume-rhizobia symbiosis. Chapter 4 discusses the surface chemistry and function of microbial biofilms. The authors discuss biofilm formation and matrix architecture and general features and properties. Chapter 5 deals with vegetable crop scheduling and prediction. Topics that are covered include identification of stages of growth and development and experimental approaches for developing scheduling and prediction models.
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Agronomy DVANCES I N VOLUME 76 Advisory Board Martin Alexander Ronald Phillips Cornell University University of Minnesota Kenneth J. Frey Kate M. Scow Iowa State University University of California, Davis Larry P. Wilding Texas A&M University Prepared in cooperation with the American Society of Agronomy Monographs Committee Lisa K. Al-Almoodi David D. Baltensperger Warren A. Dick Jerry L. Hatfield John L. Kovar Diane E. Stott, Chairman David M. Kral Jennifer W. MacAdam Matthew J. Morra Gary A. Pederson John E. Rechcigl Diane H. Rickerl Wayne F. Robarge Richard Shibles Jeffrey Volenec Richard E. Zartman Agronomy DVANCES IN VOLUME 76 Edited by Donald L. Sparks Department of Plant and Soil Sciences University of Delaware Newark, Delaware San Diego San Francisco New York Boston London Sydney Tokyo This book is printed on acid-free paper. ∞ C 2002 by ACADEMIC PRESS Copyright All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. The appearance of the code at the bott