Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations - Softcover

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M. B. Kirkham is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University. Her research involves two areas: soil-plant-water relations and uptake of heavy metals by crops grown on polluted soil (called “phytoremediation”). Dr. Kirkham is currently collaborating with colleagues at the Kansas State University Northwest Research-Extension Center in Colby, Kansas to study yield and water relations of sorghum grown under the semi-arid conditions of far western Kansas. Dr. Kirkham serves on several editorial boards: Soil Science; Journal of Crop Improvement; International Agrophysics; Crop Science; Australian Journal of Soil Research; Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment; Agricultural Water Management; Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research; Agricultural, Food and Analytical Bacteriology; and Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. In addition, Dr. Kirkham has received the CSSA Crop Science Research Award and the 2010-11 Iman Outstanding Faculty Award for Research.

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Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations, Third Edition, describes the principles of water relations within soils, followed by the uptake of water and its subsequent movement throughout and from the plant body. This is presented as a progressive series of physical and biological interrelations, even though each topic is treated in detail on its own. This book also describes equipment used to measure water in the soil–plant–atmosphere system. At the end of each chapter is a biography of a scientist whose principles are discussed in the chapter. Because of the increased interest of plants in space, this edition has a new chapter dealing with soil and plant water relations under microgravity. In addition, problems with answers have been added to each chapter.

• Includes the struggles and accomplishments of scientists who developed the theories, which are given in short biographies
• Provides the necessary understanding to address advancing problems in water availability for meeting ecological requirements at local, regional, and global scales
• Covers plant anatomy: an essential component to understanding soil and plant water relations

M. B. Kirkham is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University and does research involving two areas: soil–plant–water relations and uptake of heavy metals by crops grown on polluted soil (called "phytoremediation"). Dr. Kirkham collaborates with colleagues at Kansas State University to study yield and water relations of crops grown under the semiarid conditions of Kansas. Dr. Kirkham serves on several editorial boards including Pedosphere, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Agricultural Water Management, and many others. In addition, Dr. Kirkham has received the CSSA Crop Science Research Award and the 2010–11 Iman Outstanding Faculty Award for Research.