Advances in Agronomy

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.

Preface Donald L. Sparks 1. Facility Cultivation Systems “????” - A Chinese Model for the Planet Jianming Xie, Jihua Yu, Baihong Chen, Zhi Feng, Jie Li, Cai Zhao, Jian Lyu, Linli Hu, Yantai Gan and K.H.M. Siddique 2. Allelopathic Potential of Sorghum Sorghum Bicolor (L.) Moench in Weed Control: A Comprehensive Review Lilianna Glab, Józef Sowinski, Raven Bough and Franck E. Dayan 3. Weed Dynamics and Management in Wheat Khawar Jabran, Khalid Mahmood, Bo Melander, Ali A. Bajwa and Per Kudsk 4. Improving Soil Health and Human Protein Nutrition by Pulses-Based Cropping Systems Rattan Lal 5. Potential Hotspot Areas of Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Grazed Pastoral Dairy Farm Systems J. Luo, J. Wyatt, T. van der Weerden, S. Thomas, C. de Klein, Y. Li, S. Lindsey, S. Ledgard, J. Li, W. Ding, S. Qin, N. Zhang, N. Bolan, M.B. Kirkham, Z. Bai, L. Ma, X. Zhang, H. Wang, H. Liu and G. Rys 6. Conservation Agriculture Effects on Dynamics of Soil C and N Under Climate Change Scenario N.S. Pasricha