Nutrient Management in Tropical Crops

Renato de Mello Prado holds a PhD in Agronomy from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, and did his post-doctorate in Plant Nutrition at Universidad Córdoba, Spain and at Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain. He is currently Professor at UNESP in Undergraduate and Graduate Studies (Plant Production / Soil Science), CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil) researcher and collaborator in other national and international universities. Supervised and co-supervised more than one hundred master's and doctoral students and more than thirty post-doctors. He has experience in plant nutrition, working in the teaching of the discipline and in the coordination of the Study Group on Plant Nutrition at Unesp (Genplant), which addresses the topics: studies of nutritional disorders, nutrient mobility, leaf nutrition, nutritional efficiency, silicon, leaf diagnosis and nutrition of different cultures. Published more than five hundred scientific articles in indexed journals.Cid Naudi Silva Campos is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil, and a Research Productivity Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He earned his Ph.D. in Agronomy (Plant Production) from São Paulo State University (UNESP/Jaboticabal) and has extensive experience in international research collaborations projects. His research focuses on plant nutri-physiology, with a specific emphasis on the effects of nutrients and beneficial elements on the modulation of photosynthesis and secondary metabolism. In addition to leading the GECENP-UFMS research group. As a researcher-inventor with a filed patent in the field of agricultural inputs, he has a significant scholarly output, including numerous scientific articles and technical works in plant biochemistry, nutrition, and physiology. He is actively involved in academic mentoring, with vast experience supervising Master’s and PhD students in Agronomy.Gelza Carliane Marques Teixeira is an Assistant Professor at the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Agronomy (Soil Science) from São Paulo State University (UNESP) and completed postdoctoral training in Plant Nutrition. Her research focuses on plant nutrition, soil fertility, nutritional eco-physiology, and the use of beneficial elements, particularly silicon, to enhance crop performance and stress tolerance. She has experience in undergraduate and graduate education, supervision of students, and collaborative research projects in Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition. She has published scientific articles and technical works in national and international journals, contributing to advances in sustainable crop production and plant nutrition.

• Chapter 1Introduction to Plant Mineral NutritionGelza Carliane Marques Teixeira, Cid Naudi Silva Campos, Renato de Mello PradoChapter 2Toward Sustainable Plant Nutrition: Integrating Soil Biology, Nutrient Efficiency, and Climate-Smart Innovation for Global Food and Energy SecurityJosé Lavres, Francisco Scaglia Linhares, Nikolas de Souza Mateus, Antonio Leite Florentino, Flávio Henrique Silveira Rabêlo, Cassio Carlette Thiengo, Fernando Shintate Galindo, Nicolas Braga Casarin, Kelly Nascimento Silva, Deborah Rodrigues de Souza Santos, Tiago Rodrigues Tavares, Brenda Mistral de Oliveira Carvalho, Carlos Alcides Villalba Algarin, Elcio Ferreira dos Santos, Tiago Domingues ZucchiChapter 3Importance of tropical soil fertility in plant nutritionHerminia Emilia Prieto Martinez, Luciana Aparecida RodriguesChapter 4The Importance of Tropical Agriculture for Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change AdaptationCarlos Alberto Martinez; Eduardo Habermann, Eduardo Augusto Dias de Oliveira, Ana Lilia Alzate-Marin, Fabio Alberto Alzate-MartinezChapter 5A new approach to silicon in mitigating stresses caused by nutrient deficienciesRenato de Mello Prado, Guilherme Felisberto, Rafael Ferreira Barreto, Patrícia Messias FerreiraChapter 6Silicon in disease managementIvan Herman Fischer and Ana Carolina FirminoChapter 7Variations in soybean leaf nutrient concentrations among laboratories affect the accuracy of nutritional diagnostic methodsEdilaine Istéfani Franklin Traspadini, Paulo Guilherme Salvador Wadt, Renato de Mello Prado, Daniel Vidal Perez, Cassiano Garcia Roque, Marcelo Valentini Arf, Rafael Gonçalves VilelaChapter 8Nutrition and fertilization in pastures and annual crops: dynamics of integrated systemsCíntia Cármen de Faria Melo, Danilo Silva Amaral, Anderson de Moura Zanine, Alexandre Barcellos Dalri, Renato de Mello PradoChapter 9Nutrition and Fertilization of Cotton CropsJonas Pereira de Souza Júnior, Milton Garcia Costa, Kamilla Silva de Oliveira and Davie M. KadyampakeniChapter 10Nutrition and fertilization of common-bean cropsFábio Luiz Checchio Mingotte, Leandro Borges Lemos, Anderson Prates Coelho, Rogério Peres Soratto, Orivaldo ArfChapter 11Nutrition and fertilization of soybean cropsAdônis Moreira, Larissa Alexandra Cardoso Moraes, Jorge Delfim, José Milton Faria Júnior, Luiz Gustavo Moretti and João Willian BossolaniChapter 12Nutrition and fertilization of sorghum cropsFlávia Cristina dos Santos, Aildson Pereira Duarte, Sylvia Morais de Sousa Tinoco, Cícero Beserra de Menezes, Alessandro Guerra da Silva, Camila Jorge Bernabé Ferreira, Carlos Juliano Brant Albuquerque, Manoel Ricardo de Albuquerque Filho, Gabriel Silva EduardoChapter 13Nutrition and fertilization of corn cropsÁlvaro Vilela de Resende, Monna Lysa Teixeira Santana, Claudinei Kappes, Sandra Mara Vieira Fontoura, Miguel Marques Gontijo Neto, Henrique Antunes de SouzaChapter 14Recent advances in nutrition and fertilization of sugarcane with macronutrientsRafael Otto, Carlos Antonio Costa Nascimento, Estêvão Vicari MellisChapter 15Recent advances in nutrition and fertilization of sugarcane with micronutrientsEstêvão Vicari Mellis, Rafael Otto, Carlos Antonio Costa Nascimento,Reges HeinrichsChapter 16Precision agriculture in the fertilization of row cropsFábio Henrique Rojo Baio, José Paulo Molin, Fabrício Pinheiro Povh