Biological Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Rice Production

Chapter 1 Introduction Some comments about a better use of biological nitrogen fixation in rice cultivation

Chapter 2 Rhizobial biofertilizers: the most promising BNF technology for increased grain legume production in Bangladesh

Chapter 3 Effect of heavy metals on legume- Rhizobium symbiosis

Chapter 4 Effect of straw incorporation on soil N-pool in submerged rice

Chapter 5 The use of organic residues in increasing crop production in a wheat—mungbean— T . Aman cropping system on red-brown terrace soils

Chapter 6 Leguminous green manures in rice-based cropping systems

Chapter 7 Use of green manuring crops in rice fields for sustainable production in Bangladesh agriculture

Chapter 8 Prospect of dhaincha ( Sesbania rostrata ) intercropping with T. Aus in a T. Aus—T. Aman cropping pattern

Chapter 9 Pedology of the rice soils of Bangladesh

Chapter 10 Does Azolla have any future in agriculture?

Chapter 11 Utilization of Azolla in rice production in West Africa: potentials and constraints

Chapter 12 Cultivation and uses of Azolla in Egypt

Chapter 13 Estimation of nitrogen fixation in Azolla —rice association using 15 N isotope dilution

Chapter 14 Prospect and potentiality of cyanobacteria as an alternative source of nitrogen fertilizer in Bangladesh rice cultivation

Chapter 15 Contribution of cyanobacterization to rice growth and performance under different field stand densities and levels of combined nitrogen

Chapter 16 Ecological aspects of cyanobacteria from the rice fields of Corrientes (Argentina)

Chapter 17 Contribution of biological nitrogen fixation to rice production in a Mediterranean rice field

Chapter 18 Enrichment of indigenous blue—green algal population in rice fields and evaluation of its effect in rice culture

Chapter 19 Abundance and isolation of nitrogen-fixing bacteria from the major rice soils of Bangladesh

Chapter 20 Burkholderia vietnamiensis , a new nitrogen-fixing species associated with rice roots, isolated from an acid sulphate soil in Vietnam: plant-growth-promoting effects on rice

Chapter 21 Specificity of root colonization by symplasmata-forming Pantoea agglomerans

Chapter 22 Nitrogen fixation by Azospirillum brasilense isolated from rice fields of Bangladesh

Chapter 23 Biotechnological aspects of diazotrophic bacteria associated with rice

Chapter 24 Azospirillum phylogeny based on 16S rRNA sequences

Chapter 25 Increased growth and yield of rice by treating seeds and spraying plants with non-nitrogen-fixing bacteria