Examines climate-soil-plant interrelationships governing the nutritional and growth aspects of cereal, legume, and pasture crops--providing basic and applied information to improve the management and potential yield of major temperate and tropical field crop. Second Edition furnishes a new chapter on the management of degraded soils, and improved organization of chapter sequence, and more than 325 tables and drawings--over 90 new to this edition.

Table of Contents

Field crops and mineral nutrition; factors affecting production of field crops; nutrient flux in soil-plant system; diagnostic techniques for nutritional disorders; nutrient management of degraded soils; the role of essential nutrients on plant diseases; simulation of crop growth and management; wheat and barley; rice; corn; sorghum; soybeans; common bean and cowpea; peanut; sugarcane; cassava and potato; cotton; forage.