Molybdenum in Agriculture (Hardcover)

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Umesh C. Gupta; 2. Chemistry and mineralogy of molybdenum in soils Katta J. Reddy, Larry C. Munn and Liyuan Wang; 3. Distribution and mobility of molybdenum in the terrestrial environment Kathleen S. Smith, Laurie S. Balistrieri, Steven M. Smith and R. C. Severson; 4. Biochemical significance of molybdenum in crop plants P. C. Srivastava; 5. Soil and plant factors affecting molybdenum uptake by plants Umesh C. Gupta; 6. Analytical techniques for molybdenum determination in plants and soils Frieda Eivazi and John L. Sims; 7. Testing for molybdenum availability in soils John L. Sims and Frieda Eivazi; 8. Molybdenum availability in alkaline soils C. P. Sharma and C. Chatterjee; 9. Deficient, sufficient and toxic concentrations of molybdenum in crops Umesh C. Gupta; 10. Symptoms of molybdenum deficiency and toxicity in crops Umesh C. Gupta; 11. Sources and methods for molybdenum fertilization of crops John J. Mortvedt; 12. Yield responses to molybdenum by field and horticultural crops James F. Adams; 13. Responses of forage legumes and grasses to molybdenum Chris Johansen, Peter C. Kerridge and Adib Sultana; 14. Molybdenum and sulfur relationships in plants J. A. MacLeod, Umesh C. Gupta and Barrie Stanfield; 15. Molybdenum in the tropics N. S. Pasricha,V. K. Nayyar, and R. Singh; Index.