Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH, 24–29 June 1990, Beckley West Virginia, USA

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The chemical properties of acid soils with emphasis on soils of the humid tropics....Pages 3-14
Solubility of aluminium and silicon in acidified spodosols: Evidence for soluble aluminosilicate....Pages 15-24
Solid phase control of aluminium activity in an artificial plant growth medium containing hydroxy-Al-montmorillonite....Pages 25-34
Predicting toxicity of reactive ‘solution’ aluminium using kinetic speciation....Pages 35-42
Chemical and mineralogical properties and soil solution composition of acid soils from the South Pacific Islands....Pages 43-53
Some effects of chemical weathering in three cultivated acid sulfate soils in Sweden....Pages 55-63
Fossil acid sulfate soils in Hokkaido, Northern Japan....Pages 65-72
Chemistry and fertility of acid Andisols with special reference to subsoil acidity....Pages 73-80
Exchangeable cations and the pH-independent distribution of cation exchange capacities in Spodosols of a forested watershed....Pages 81-92
Salt absorption in gypsum amended acid soils....Pages 93-97
Soil model of iron phosphate solubility....Pages 99-105
Characteristics of soil acidity of paddy soils in relation to rice growth....Pages 107-112
Zinc fractionation in a Cecil soil as influenced by organic acid treatments....Pages 113-122
Geographic relationships between soil and water acidity, soil-forming factors and acid rain....Pages 123-137
Effect of acid rain and ozone on soil and secondary needle nutrients of loblolly pine....Pages 139-145
Deposition of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide on soils and resulting soil acidification....Pages 147-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Fertility of acid soils....Pages 159-167
Processes of soil acidification during nitrogen cycling with emphasis on legume based pastures....Pages 169-179
Critical ammonium: nitrate uptake ratios for Douglas-fir determining rhizosphere pH and tree mortality....Pages 181-186
Ecosystem-level significance of acid forest soils....Pages 187-195
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Plant-soil interactions associated with acid, weathered soils....Pages 197-204
Effect of phosphorus supply to the surface roots of wheat on root extension and rhizosphere chemistry in an acidic subsoil....Pages 205-214
Effects of phosphate fertilization, lime amendments and inoculation with VA-mycorrhizal fungi on soybeans in an acid soil....Pages 215-225
Tolerance to acid soil conditions of the velvet beans Mucuna pruriens var. utilis and M. deeringiana ....Pages 227-237
Root growth of peanut cultivars and soil acidity....Pages 239-243
Soil and soil solution property effects on root growth of aluminium tolerant and intolerant wheat cultivars....Pages 245-252
A rapid method for predicting the lime requirement of acidic temperate soils with widely varying organic matter contents....Pages 253-262
Effects of sample depth, and of lime and phosphorus applications on soil test levels in pasture soils....Pages 263-266
Effects of lime additions on the availability of phosphorus and sulphur in some temperate and tropical acid soils....Pages 267-274
Use of lime, gypsum and their combinations to improve nodulation and yield of groundnut in an acidic soil....Pages 275-280
The effect of phosphate rock dissolution on soil chemical properties and wheat seedling root elongation....Pages 281-290
Calcium magnesium imbalance in clovers: A cause of negative yield response to liming....Pages 291-298
Soil acidity and its interactions with phosphorus availability for a range of different crop types....Pages 299-305
Efficiency of rock phosphate as phosphatic fertilizer to rice in acid soil of Karnataka, India....Pages 307-312
Acid soil profiles of the semiarid and subhumid tropics in Central and West Africa....Pages 313-320
Nitrogen in soil and cotton growth as affected by liming and nitrogen fertilizer....Pages 321-325
Liming and molybdenum effects on nitrogen uptake and grain yield of corn....Pages 327-332
Studies on nutrition of rice cultivars under simulated acidic conditions with particular reference to iron....Pages 333-338
Interaction of soil zinc, calcium, and pH with zinc toxicity in peanuts....Pages 339-347
Effect of boron, lime and their residue on yield of cauliflower, leaf composition and soil properties....Pages 349-354
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Soil acidity effects on premature germination in immature maize grain....Pages 355-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
The management of acid soils....Pages 365-382
The management of soil acidity for sustainable crop production....Pages 383-396
Characteristics of acid soils in Thailand: A review....Pages 397-405
Soil spatial variability and steep pasture management considerations in an acid soil environment....Pages 407-416
Residual effects of natural bush, Cajanus cajan and Tephrosia Candida on the productivity of an acid soil in southeastern Nigeria....Pages 417-422
Old tree root channels in acid soils in the humid tropics: Important for crop root penetration, water infiltration and nitrogen management....Pages 423-430
Effect of incorporated green manure crops on subsequent oat production in an acid, infertile silt loam....Pages 431-435
The injection of slurries of lime, associated with deep tillage, to increase wheat production on soils with subsoil acidity....Pages 437-445
Growth of vineyard roots into segmentally ameliorated acidic subsoils....Pages 447-452
Long-term effects of lime in extensive pasture areas of Australia....Pages 453-464
A field comparison of lime requirement indices for maize....Pages 465-473
Phosphorus-lime interaction in a strongly acid upland soil grown to rice in Cavinti, Philippines....Pages 475-483
Alfalfa yields and quality as influenced by subsurface application of phosphorus, potassium and limestone....Pages 485-490
Establishment and growth of Vigna parkeri on an acid Florida spodosol in response to lime and phosphorus....Pages 491-500
Effects of limestone and gypsum application to a Malaysian ultisol on soil solution composition and yields of maize and groundnut....Pages 501-508
Use of gypsum, phosphogypsum and fluoride to ameliorate subsurface acidity in a pasture soil....Pages 509-517
Response of upland rice and common bean to liming on an Oxisol....Pages 519-525
The effect of lime and vegetation management on non-wetting behaviour of an acid siliceous sand....Pages 527-531
Efficiency of rock phosphate in rice-groundnut cropping system in acid soils of coastal Karnataka, India....Pages 533-538
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Influence of phosphate rock sources and rates on rice and common bean production in an Oxisol....Pages 539-546
Acidification of soil in Alberta by nitrogen fertilizers applied to bromegrass....Pages 547-553
Acidification of forest soil by elemental sulphur dust....Pages 555-563
Front Matter....Pages 565-565
Soil acidity and the microbial population: Survival and growth of bacteria in low pH....Pages 567-579
Response of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv phaseoli to acidity....Pages 581-587
Increased yield in annual species of Medicago grown in acidic soil in response to inoculation with acid tolerant Rhizobium meliloti ....Pages 589-595
 Rhizobium meliloti inoculation of alfalfa selected for tolerance to acid, aluminium-rich soils....Pages 597-601
Effects of pH and Al 3+ activity on survival of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii in a simple solution and on nodulation of red clover in acid soils....Pages 603-609
Tolerance of winged bean ( Psophocarpus tetragonolobus ) and its symbiotic system to soil acidity....Pages 611-618
Effects of soil acidity factors on interaction of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes and Rhizobium strains: Symbiotic N-fixation, grain quality and grain yield in acid soils....Pages 619-631
The effect of lime, nitrogen and Rhizobium inoculation on dry top production, nutrient concentration and nodulation of subterranean clover grown on an acid siliceous sand....Pages 633-640
Growth and N 2 fixation response of arrowleaf clover to manganese and pH in solution culture....Pages 641-647
Symbiotic soybean in acidified soil....Pages 649-654
Coating birdsfoot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus L.) seed with CaCO 3 and rock phosphate: Early seedling development in controlled environments....Pages 655-661
Isolation, characterization and associative N-fixation of acid-tolerant Azospirillum brasilense strains associated with Eleusine coracana in low pH-Al-rich acid soil....Pages 663-671
Interaction studies between Rhizobium leguminosarum and Meloidogyne incognita on pea ( Pisum sativum L.) grown under different concentrations of molybdenum....Pages 673-676
Control of Meloidogyne incognita with Bacillus thuringiensis ....Pages 677-680
Front Matter....Pages 681-681
Mechanisms of adaptation of plants to acid soils....Pages 683-702
The aluminium signal: New dimensions to mechanisms of aluminium tolerance....Pages 703-716
Identity of the rhizotoxic aluminium species....Pages 717-728
Front Matter....Pages 681-681
Predicting toxic concentrations of manganese in acid soils....Pages 729-732
Short-term responses of soybean roots to aluminium....Pages 733-739
The effects of short and long term aluminium treatment on potassium fluxes in roots of an aluminium sensitive cultivar of barley....Pages 741-746
Aluminium decreases root growth and calcium and magnesium uptake in Picea abies seedlings....Pages 747-753
Calcium and magnesium amelioration of aluminium toxicity in Al-sensitive and Al-tolerant wheat....Pages 755-761
The role of magnesium and calcium in alleviating aluminium toxicity in wheat plants....Pages 763-768
Investigating the relationship between aluminium toxicity, root growth and root-generated ion currents....Pages 769-778
An ultrastructural study of the inhibition of mucilage secretion in the wheat root cap by aluminium....Pages 779-787
Identification of aluminium-tolerant protoplasts in the original root protoplast population from several plant species differing in aluminium tolerance....Pages 789-793
Behaviour of inbred and hybrid maize lines in the presence of aluminium as evaluated by some physiological and biochemical parameters....Pages 795-803
Nitrate and ammonium uptake and solution pH changes for Al-tolerant and Al-sensitive sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) genotypes grown with and without aluminium....Pages 805-814
Effects of silicon on growth and mineral composition of sorghum (Sorghum Bicolor) grown with toxic levels of aluminium....Pages 815-823
Biochemical mechanism of the toxicity of aluminium and the sequestration of aluminium in plant cells....Pages 825-838
Biochemical basis of aluminium tolerance in plant cells....Pages 839-850
Induction of protein synthesis by aluminium in wheat ( Triticum Aestivum L .) Root Tips....Pages 851-858
Organic acid and free proline accumulation and nitrate reductase activity in sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) genotypes differing in aluminium tolerance....Pages 859-867
Biochemical studies of peanut cells grown in suspension cultures treated with aluminium....Pages 869-874
Growth of peanut cells in suspension cultures treated with aluminium....Pages 875-877
Changes in pH of legume cell suspension culture media containing aluminium....Pages 879-882
Front Matter....Pages 883-883
Identifying plants adaptable to low pH conditions....Pages 885-904
Front Matter....Pages 883-883
Evaluation of solution culture techniques for studying aluminium toxicity in plants....Pages 905-912
The effects of aluminium and pH on the growth of a range of temperate grass species and cultivars....Pages 913-924
Aluminium tolerance of forage species....Pages 925-930
Short-term bioassay of Lotus corniculatus soil acidity tolerance....Pages 931-938
Evaluating sweet potato tolerance to aluminium toxicity: Comparison of rapid test method and field results....Pages 939-945
Pearl millet and sorghum tolerance to aluminium in acid soil....Pages 947-951
Differential responses of sorghum to aluminium in nutrient solution and acid soil....Pages 953-958
Field screening of rice cultivars for growth, yield and nutrient uptake in acidic soil....Pages 959-965
Screening for low-phosphorus tolerance among tomato strains....Pages 967-975
Adaptation of shrub legumes to acid soils....Pages 977-987
Morphology, root conductivity, and mineral accumulation of Northwest U.S. tree species in response to acid deposition in artificial soil....Pages 989-997
Experimental system for investigations of aluminium toxicity in fruit trees....Pages 999-1004
Front Matter....Pages 1005-1005
Genetics of acid tolerant plant....Pages 1007-1017
Breeding for tolerance to aluminium toxicity in wheat....Pages 1019-1028
Selection for tolerance and susceptibility to aluminium within Trifolium repens L.....Pages 1029-1036
Acid soil tolerance mechanisms for juvenile stage sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor )....Pages 1037-1045
Intercrossing methods, mutagenesis treatments, and tissue culture techniques for expanding the genetic diversity of flatpea ( Lathyrus sylvestris L.)....Pages 1047-1055
Aluminium tolerance of Triticum aestivum L. populations related to plant-induced pH changes of nutrient solution....Pages 1057-1062
Protein profiles in root-tips of two wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars with differential tolerance to aluminium....Pages 1063-1070
Aluminium tolerance in wheat: Analysis of polypeptides in the root apices of tolerant and sensitive genotypes....Pages 1071-1079
Front Matter....Pages 1005-1005
Inheritance of acid-soil tolerance in sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) grown on an Ultisol....Pages 1081-1093
Leaf mineral element concentrations in sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) hybrids and their parents grown at varied aluminium saturations on an Ultisol....Pages 1095-1104
Back Matter....Pages 1105-1106