Sustainable Plant Nutrition: Molecular Interventions and Advancements for Crop Improvement explores the significant opportunities for sustainable, eco-friendly approaches in plant nutrition and agricultural crop production. The book highlights the various prospects involved in optimizing plant nutrient uptake agriculture and includes chapters representing diverse areas dealing with biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular biology, proteomics, genomics and metabolomics. This book is an ideal resource for those seeking to ensure a sustainable plant production future.
While plants have evolved a set of elaborate mechanisms to cope with nutrient limitations, the traditional supplementation by the application of fertilizers to plant productivity may then lead to overfertilization which can actually reduce plant growth and have adverse effects on the environment. To tackle these issues, a detailed understanding of the responses of plants to nutrients and nutrient deficiency at the physiological, metabolic, transcriptome and epigenetic level is essential.
1. Sustainable Plant Nutrition - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. About the editors - p. xix 8. Chapter one Physiological and molecular aspects of macronutrient uptake by higher plants - p. 2 9. Chapter two Plant nutrition and soil fertility - p. 24 10. Chapter three Nutrient acquisition, transport and metabolism within the plant cells - p. 52 11. Chapter four Climate change and plant nutrient availability - p. 72 12. Chapter five Role of mineral nutrients in biological nitrogen fixation - p. 88 13. Chapter six Molecular basis of plant nutrient use efficiency - concepts and challenges for its improvement - p. 108 14. Chapter seven Use of nanoparticles and fertilizers in alleviating heavy metals and improving nutrients uptake in plants - p. 154 15. Chapter eight Role and importance of microorganisms in plant nutrition and remediation of potentially toxic elements contaminated soils - p. 180 16. Chapter nine Plant nutrition, transport, mechanism and sensing in plants - p. 210 17. Chapter ten Role of inorganic bio stimulant elements in plant growth - p. 230 18. Chapter eleven Role of microorganisms in plant nutrition and soil health - p. 264 19. Chapter twelve Integrated nutrient management strategies for improving crop yield - p. 284 20. Chapter thirteen Use of nano-fertilizers to improve the nutrient use efficiencies in plants - p. 300 21. Chapter fourteen Mulching with organic matters has potential of remediation in ecosystem - p. 324 22. Chapter fifteen How and why to prevent over fertilization to get sustainable crop production - p. 340 23. Chapter sixteen Molecular basis of abiotic stress alleviation by nanoparticles - p. 356 24. Chapter seventeen Insight on abiotic stress management in plants by improving plant nutritional status - p. 382 25. Index - p. 403
Sustainable Plant Nutrition: Molecular Interventions and Advancements for Crop Improvement explores the significant opportunities for sustainable, eco-friendly approaches in plant nutrition and agricultural crop production. The book highlights the various prospects involved in optimizing plant nutrient uptake agriculture and includes chapters representing diverse areas dealing with biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular biology, proteomics, genomics and metabolomics. This book is an ideal resource for those seeking to ensure a sustainable plant production future.
While plants have evolved a set of elaborate mechanisms to cope with nutrient limitations, the traditional supplementation by the application of fertilizers to plant productivity may then lead to overfertilization which can actually reduce plant growth and have adverse effects on the environment. To tackle these issues, a detailed understanding of the responses of plants to nutrients and nutrient deficiency at the physiological, metabolic, transcriptome and epigenetic level is essential.
1. Sustainable Plant Nutrition - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. About the editors - p. xix 8. Chapter one Physiological and molecular aspects of macronutrient uptake by higher plants - p. 2 9. Chapter two Plant nutrition and soil fertility - p. 24 10. Chapter three Nutrient acquisition, transport and metabolism within the plant cells - p. 52 11. Chapter four Climate change and plant nutrient availability - p. 72 12. Chapter five Role of mineral nutrients in biological nitrogen fixation - p. 88 13. Chapter six Molecular basis of plant nutrient use efficiency - concepts and challenges for its improvement - p. 108 14. Chapter seven Use of nanoparticles and fertilizers in alleviating heavy metals and improving nutrients uptake in plants - p. 154 15. Chapter eight Role and importance of microorganisms in plant nutrition and remediation of potentially toxic elements contaminated soils - p. 180 16. Chapter nine Plant nutrition, transport, mechanism and sensing in plants - p. 210 17. Chapter ten Role of inorganic bio stimulant elements in plant growth - p. 230 18. Chapter eleven Role of microorganisms in plant nutrition and soil health - p. 264 19. Chapter twelve Integrated nutrient management strategies for improving crop yield - p. 284 20. Chapter thirteen Use of nano-fertilizers to improve the nutrient use efficiencies in plants - p. 300 21. Chapter fourteen Mulching with organic matters has potential of remediation in ecosystem - p. 324 22. Chapter fifteen How and why to prevent over fertilization to get sustainable crop production - p. 340 23. Chapter sixteen Molecular basis of abiotic stress alleviation by nanoparticles - p. 356 24. Chapter seventeen Insight on abiotic stress management in plants by improving plant nutritional status - p. 382 25. Index - p. 403
