Advances in Agronomy. Volume 180

Table of Contents

1. The Socio-Economic Impact of Fungicide Resistance in West Australia's Wheatbelt Toto Olita, Billy Sung, Bethany Hooper, Zhanglong Cao, Fran Lopez-Ruiz, and Mark Gibberd�������� 2. Microbial Inoculant Carriers: Soil Health Improvement and Moisture Retention in Sustainable Agriculture Anithadevi Kenday Sivaram, Sudharsanam Abinandan, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu and Mallavarapu Megharaj 3. Response Network of Plant-Soil-Rhizosphere Environment to Drought Stress and their Regulatory Measures Zhenqi Liao, Junliang Fan, Zhenlin Lai, Zhentao Baj, Haidong Wang, Minghui Cheng, Fucang Zhang and Zhijun Li 4. Agricultural Residues Management: Life Cycle Assessment Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Emissions Nicholas E. Korres, Anoop Singh and Shiv Prasad 5. An Analysis of Earth Temperature and Related Series in Air and Soil M. S. Dhanoa, R. Sanderson, A. Shepherd, L. M. Cardenas, J. L. Ellis, C. D. Powell, S. Lopez and J. France

Authors

Donald L. Sparks Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. DONALD L. SPARKS is the Unidel S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Francis Alison Professor at the University of Delaware. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of biogeochemical processes and surface chemistry of natural materials. His research has focused on fate and transport of trace metals in soil and water, soil remediation, water quality, and carbon sequestration in soils. Dr. Sparks is the author of two previous editions of Environmental Soil Chemistry and more than 350 refereed papers and book chapters. He is fellow of five scientific societies, and he has been the recipient of major awards and lectureships including the Geochemistry Medal from the American Chemical Society, the Liebig Medal from the International Union of Soil Sciences, the Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union. Dr. Sparks served as president of the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, has served on advisory committees for several national laboratories and national and international centers and institutes, and served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Soil Sciences and other NAS Committees.