Environmental quality and biotechnology are ... two major research areas in the crop and soil sciences. [This book] is concerned with these topics. Three chapters deal with aspects of environmental quality. Chapters 3 and 6 examine modeling of organic and inorganic chemical transport in soils ... Many equilibrium-based models have been promulgated in the literature to describe reactions at the solid-liquid interface. One group of these models is microscopically based and is referred to as surface complexation models. These models are the subject of Chapter 5 ... Chapters 2 and 4 deal with the crop sciences.-Pref.