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Subject listing for: Nitrogen Fixing Trees |
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This site contains the abstracts of four papers on nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs.
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This paper describes the botany, ecology, distribution, uses, and agroforestry potential of Acacia angustissima.
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This article describes the nitrogen fixing tree species, Adenanthera pavonina, and its botany, ecology, distribution, uses, symbioses, and products.
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The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant crops, and their uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. The site also contains more information about temperate agroforestry, a publications list, information about their journal, and the seeds and plants they sell.
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This article discusses Albizia procera and its uses, botany, ecology, distribution. It includes a diagram, and references.
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El sitio da acceso a boletines en línea documentando experiencias con distintos sistemas de cultivos de cobertura / abonos verdes asociados con maíz, maicillo (sorgo), hortalizas, y plantaciones de frutales, café, palmas africanas y más.
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This site is the abstract of a doctoral dissertation on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in erythrina poeppigiana trees managed by pruning. It includes photos and links to abstracts of related publications (some English, some Spanish).
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DSV is German plant breeding company. Seeds for oil crops, legumes, forage grasses, cereals, catch crops, green manures, and turf grasses can be ordered by mail from this organization. Use this page to browse briefly annotated lists of available species in English.
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This article in the journal Livestock Research for Rural Development descibes a research project in Vietnam which assesses the forage value for goats of locally adapted trees and shrubs.
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This article discusses the genus Erythrina which is being researched through CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica, as part of their nitrogen fixing tree program.
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This is an online book about forage legumes used in tropical agricultural systems. It includes a table of contents that allows you to click into sections individually. There is also an address through which you can order a copy of the book.
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agroforester.com sponsored price list for a wide selection of over 60 tree species with their botanical names, common names, and environmental requirements information.
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Esta hoja informativa acerca de Sesbania sesban fue preparada en 1994 por Dale O. Evans para la Asociación de Arboles Fijadores de Nitrógeno (NFTA) como parte de su publicación "Panorama General de los Arboles Fijadores de Nitrógeno: Una guía útil para los árboles fijadores de nitrógeno del mundo."
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This article discusses the importance, uses, pests, botany, ecology, genetic improvement, and establishement of Leucaena. It is a NFT Highlight written in 1990.
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This is a bibliography list of references on Sesbania sesban from the Biological Abstracts database compiled by Silver Platter, an organization that provides data collections in electronic form (see www.silverplatter.com for more information).
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The MBRLC Products Page lists agroforestry and vegetable seeds that can be ordered from the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center in the Philippines. Prices are in US dollars or Philippine pesos
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This article talks about plant gums and their importance in international trade as foods, pharmaceutical, adhesive, paper, textile, and other industries. It discusses their uses past and present.
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This FACT Net publication discusses Dalbergia sissoo and its uses as a timber, fuelwood, shade, shelter, and fodder species.
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This is the index page for the NFT News online newsletter. It contains a table of contents for the first four issues of the the newsletter (April 1998 - February 2001)
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This is an edition of the NFT News, Improvement and Culture of Nitrogen Fixing Trees, published by the IUFRO Working Party.
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This paper discusses nitrogen fixing trees (NFT's) and their uses in agroforestry. It includes tips for planting them, an explanation of nitrogen fixation (including diagram), and references for further information.
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Esta página da una lista de los especies agroforestales disponibles de Proyecto Nuevos Bosques.
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This document is a plant description for sesbania grandiflora.
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Developed by the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC), SALT is a diversified agroforestry farming system that adequately controls soil erosion while helping restore soil structure and fertility. A fully-illustrated manual on how to farm the hilly land without losing the topsoil. Includes history of the system.
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El artículo presenta ejemplos, de interacciones biológicas, ecológicas y económicas. Incluye definiciones y opciones para el establecimiento, resultados obtenidos por sistemas silvopastoriles, bancos forrajeros y cercas vivas. (Conferencia electrónica FAO-CIPAV sobre "Agroforestería para la producción animal en Latinoamérica" en 2000)
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This article discusses nitrogen fixing trees, and their uses, and lists the major families and Genera. It also discusses why nitrogen fixing trees might not be uselful in some situations.
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