Synopsis
Content
Preface
List of Contributors
Table of Contents
1. Chapter 1: Introduction to subsoil constraints for crop production
By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira* and Richard Willian Bell*
2. Chapter 2: The geological, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological background of Tropical Regoliths and hostile subsoils: The Brazilian landmassBy Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer*, José João Lelis Leal de Souza, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, Guilherme Resende Corrêa and Elpídio Inácio Fernandes Filho
3. Chapter 3: Soil acidity and acidification
By Clayton Robert Butterly*, Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado and Caixian Tang
4. Chapter 4: Salinity, Sodicity and Alkalinity
By Pichu Rengasamy*, Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda and Hans Raj Gheyi
5. Chapter 5: Pyritic subsoils in acid sulfate soils and similar problems in mined areas with sulfidic rocks
By José João Lelis Leal de Souza* and Walter Antônio Pereira Abrahão
6. Chapter 6: Physical subsoil constraints of agricultural and forestry land
By Teogenes Senna de Oliveira* and Raphael Bragança Alves Fernandes
7. Chapter 7: Subsoil and surface soil constraints of mined land and tailings
By Hwat Bing So*, Ivo Ribeiro da Silva, Lucas Carvalho Gomes and Teogenes Senna de Oliveira
8. Chapter 8: Sand and gravel subsoils
By Craig A. Scanlan*, Karen W. Holmes and Richard W. Bell
9. Chapter 9: Soilborne pathogens
By Andréa Bittencourt Moura*, David Backhouse, Ismail Teodoro de Souza Júnior and César Bauer Gomes
10. Chapter 10: Root systems of agricultural crops and their response to physical and chemical subsoil constraints
By Mirian Cristina Gomes Costa* and Ítalo Antônio Cotta Coutinho
11. Chapter 11: Roots and beneficial interactions with soil microbes
By Bruno Coutinho Moreira, Paulo Prates Júnior, Bernard Dell and Maria Catarina Megumi Kasuya*
12. Chapter 12: Nutrient acquisition with particular reference to subsoil constraints
By Qifu Ma*, Richard Willian Bell and Edson Marcio Mattiello
13. Chapter 13: Water acquisition by roots from the subsoil: impact of physical constraints on the dynamics of water capture
By Wendy H Vance* and Stephen P Milroy
14. Chapter 14: Deep soil carbon - characteristics and measurement with particular bearing on kaolinitic profiles
By Podjanee Sangmanee, Bernard Dell, David Henry and Richard Harper*
15. Chapter 15: Live subsoils: tropical regolith and biota interactions
By Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer and Fábio Soares de Oliveira
16. Chapter 16: Subsoil constraints for crop production: recent advances, new technologies and priorities for further research
By Richard Willian Bell* and Teogenes Senna de Oliveira*
Index
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