Phosphorus Management in Crop Production (ePub)

review articles, and technical bulletins. His four books, individually titled The Use of Nutrients in Crop Plants published in 2009; Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Field Crops, third edition, published in 2011; The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production published in 2013; and Mineral Nutrition of Rice published in 2014, are among the best-sellers of CRC Press. Dr. Fageria had been invited several times by the editor of Advances in Agronomy, which is a well-established and highly regarded serial publication, to write review articles on nutrient management, enhancing nutrient use efficiency in crop plants, ameliorating soil acidity by liming on tropical acid soils for sustainable crop production, and the role of mineral nutrition on root growth of crop plants. He had been an invited speaker to several national and international congresses, symposiums, and workshops. He was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology and since 1990 he was member of the international steering committee of symposiums on plant-soil interactions at low pH. He was an active member of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America.

Zhenli He received his PhD in soil environmental chemistry from Zhejiang University of China and is currently research foundation professor of soil and water sciences at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Indian River Research and Education Center, Fort Pierce, Florida. Dr. He teaches soil quality and nanotechnology application in food, agriculture, and environment courses to graduate and undergraduate students. He has trained over 60 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scientists. His research interests include biogeochemical processes of nutrients and contaminants in soil and the environment, soil/water quality and remediation, bioavailability and utilization efficiency of nutrients and fertilizers, plant nutrition, and nanotechnology application. Dr. He studied soil chemistry of phosphorus since 1985 and published more than 60 papers related to biogeochemistry, bioavailability, and cycling of phosphorus in agroecosystems of tropical and subtropical regions. He is the author/coauthor of two books, 28 book chapters, and more than 200 refereed academic journal articles. He serves as an editor for the Journal of Soils and Sediments, and on the editorial board for several other journals. Dr. He is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America.

Virupax C. Baligar earned his PhD in agronomy and physiology and currently is a senior research scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, at Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. He is author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books and more than 290 scientific journal articles, book chapters, and review papers and is an elected fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America. Dr. Baligar has served as advisor, consultant, and collaborator on international research programs in Brazil, Peru, China, Chile, Greece, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, and Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). He served as advisor to the World Bank, OAS, and Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria programs in Brazil and served as advisor and committee member for MS and PhD students at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia; Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China; National Agricultural University, La Molina, Lima, Peru; University of Florida, IRREC Fort Pierce, TREC Homestead, Florida; and California State University, Dominguez, Carson, California.