Meet the editor

Dr. Michael Aide received his Ph.D. in Soil Chemistry from Mississippi State University in 1982 and a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an educator and agronomic researcher at Southeast Missouri State University since 1982. His research interests include the growth and development of rice in integrated systems involving soil fertility, water management, and water

management. Rice research has permitted his travel to southeastern Asia, Central America, and Egypt. Dr. Aide is a certified professional soil scientist who has investigated rare earth elements in soils, attempting to utilize them to indicate parent material uniformity and their fate/transport. His professional affiliations include the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America.

Dr. Indi S. Braden received a bachelor's in Biology from the College of the Ozarks, Missouri, a master's in Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in Agronomy - Crop Production and Physiology from Iowa State University. She began her academic career at Southeast Missouri State University in 2003, where she is currently a professor. In addition to her work at Southeast Missouri State University,

Dr. Braden has worked with native wildflowers and prairie species and with rare and endangered species. She has worked to build learner-centered classrooms and lessons for students in plant science and physiology, forages, precision agriculture, geographical information systems, sustainable natural resource management, environmental science, and agribusiness. Her research interests include best management practices for sustainable methods involving natural resources. Her research often includes water quality, agroecology, plant/animal interactions in forage-based systems, cover crops, and a variety of other agronomic applications.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Dalip Singh*

**Preface III**

Emerging Technologies **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 49**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 97**

Global Perspectives **121**

**Chapter 7 123**

Leveraging Soil Microbes with Good Farming Practices for Higher Soil

Dissolved Organic Matter and Its Ultraviolet Absorbance at 254 Nm

An Emerging Global Understanding of Arsenic in Rice (*Oryza sativa*) and Agronomic Practices Supportive of Reducing Arsenic Accumulation

Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Soil and Crop Management

Machine Learning, Compositional and Fractal Models to Diagnose Soil

Applications of Thermo-TDR Sensors for Soil Physical Measurements

Wetland Health in Two Agro-Ecological Zones of Lesotho: Soil Physico-Chemical Properties, Nutrient Dynamics and Vegetation Isotopic N15

*by Md. Rayhan Shaheb, Ayesha Sarker and Scott A. Shearer*

*by Léon Etienne Parent, William Natale and Gustavo Brunetto*

*by Yili Lu, Wei Peng, Tusheng Ren and Robert Horton*

*by A.O. Olaleye, R. Mating, T. Nkheloane, Tutu K. Samuel* 

Carbon Sequestration (SCS) and Farm Productivity

in Different Compartments of Three Forested Sites

*by Vladimir Dimitrov and Michael Feldman*

*by Michael Aide and Indi Braden*

Quality and Plant Nutrition

*and Tolu Yetunde Akande*

**Section 2**
