Instant Insights: Developing forestry products

Code: 9781801461634
Publication Date: 15/06/2021

Contributions by: David Nicholls, USDA Forest Service, USA; Northern Research Station and University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry, USA; Jegatheswaran Ratnasingam, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; Tatjana Stevanovic, Laval University, Canada; Michael A. Gold, University of Missouri, USA

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This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on developing forestry products.

The first chapter discusses trade-offs between timber products from plantation forests and the need to protect ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration. It reviews ways of innovating business practices, the use of solid wood, reconstituted products and woody biomass as products.

The second chapter explores hardwood tree management within agroforestry systems for the production of veneer and high-quality sawlogs. It reviews how to optimise production in alley cropping, riparian buffers and silvopasture systems.

The third chapter assesses the range of non-timber forest products from tropical forests. These include non-wood fiber resources, including bamboo, rattan and agricultural biomass. These can be used to replace traditional wood fibers in both building and non-structural applications.

The fourth chapter focusses on new processes and applications of forestry products. It discusses cellulose pulp conversion into cellulosic nanomaterials, hydrolysis of hemicelluloses from wood to produce sugars for use in the food industry, as well as extraction of polyphenols from bark for nutraceuticals.

The final chapter reviews alley cropping practices to produce overstory nut crops. It discusses genetic improvement of nut trees, orchard design and management as well as pest management in nut tree alley cropping.

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Table of Contents

1. Advances in understanding the nitrogen cycle in crop production : David Pilbeam, University of Leeds, UK
2. Advances in understanding uptake and utilization of nitrogen in wheat : Ajit S. Nehe and M. John Foulkes, University of Nottingham, UK
3. Advances in optimising nitrogen-use efficiency in crop production : J. F. Angus, CSIRO Agriculture and Food and Graham Centre – Charles Sturt University, Australia
4. Advances in understanding crop use of phosphorus : Tim George, James Hutton Institute, UK
5. Advances in understanding the environmental effects of phosphorus fertilization : Andrew N. Sharpley, University of Arkansas, USA
6. Enhancing phosphorus-use efficiency in crop production : J. L. Havlin, North Carolina State University, USA; and A. J. Schlegel, Kansas State University, USA
7. Advances in understanding the potassium cycle in crop production : Qifu Ma and Richard Bell, Murdoch University, Australia
8. Potassium in crop physiology : Philip J. White, The James Hutton Institute, UK
9. Advances in optimizing potassium-use efficiency in crop production : Kaushik Majumdar, African Plant Nutrition Institute and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco; Meenu Rani, formerly ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research, India; T. Scott Murrell, African Plant Nutrition Institute and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco and Purdue University, USA; Sudarshan Dutta, African Plant Nutrition Institute and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco; T. Satyanarayana, formerly International Plant Nutrition Institute, India; V. K. Singh, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India; Jagadish Timsina, University of Melbourne, Australia and CIMMYT, Bangladesh; and B. S. Dwivedi, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
10. Secondary macronutrients: advances in understanding calcium cycling in soils, uptake/use by plants and ways of optimizing calcium-use efficiency in crop production : Milan Mesic, Zeljka Zgorelec, Aleksandra Percin, Igor Bogunovic and Darija Bilandzija, University of Zagreb, Croatia
11. The effect of soil organic matter on plant mineral nutrition : O. Urrutia, J. Erro, M. Fuentes, M. Olaetxea and M. Garnica, University of Navarra, Spain; R. Baigorri, TIMAC AGRO, UK; A. M. Zamarreño, M. Movila and D. De Hita, University of Navarra, Spain; and J. M. Garcia-Mina, University of Navarra, Spain and Centre Mondial De L’Innovation Roullier, France
12. Advances in understanding iron cycling in soils, uptake/use by plants and ways of optimising iron-use efficiency in crop production : Yashbir Singh Shivay and Sunil Mandi, ICAR – Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
13. Current advances in zinc in soils and plants: implications for zinc efficiency and biofortification studies : Gokhan Hacisalihoglu, Florida A&M University, USA; and Matthew W. Blair, Tennessee State University, USA
14. Advances in understanding boron cycling in soils, uptake/use by plants and ways of optimizing boron use efficiency in crop production : Heiner E. Goldbach, University of Bonn, Germany
15. Micronutrients: advances in understanding manganese cycling in soils, acquisition by plants and ways of optimizing manganese efficiency in crops : Sidsel Birkelund Schmidt and Søren Husted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
16. Micronutrients: advances in understanding molybdenum in crop production : Aruna Nandety and Ali M. Missaoui, University of Georgia-Athens, USA
17. Advances in assessing nutrient availability in soils : Frederikke N. Mikkelsen, Maria M. Rieckmann and Kristian H. Laursen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
18. Advances in integrated plant nutrient management : Bijay-Singh, Punjab Agricultural University, India; and Ali M. Ali, Desert Research Center, Egypt
19. Developments in the use of fertilizers : Bryan G. Hopkins, Brigham Young University, USA
20. Bio-effectors to optimize the mineral nutrition of crop plants : Markus Weinmann and Günter Neumann, University Hohenheim, Germany
21. Advances in fertigation techniques to optimize crop nutrition : Asher Bar-Tal, Uri Yermiyahu and Alon Ben-Gal, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel
22. Advances in foliar fertilizers to optimize crop nutrition : Victoria Fernández, Technical University of Madrid, Spain; and Héctor A. Bahamonde, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Argentina
23. Optimizing the use of treated wastes in crop nutrition : Sylvia Kratz, Kerstin Panten, Ewald Schnug and Elke Bloem, Julius Kühn-Institute, Germany