Mineral Nutrition Of Higher Plants Vol I

Encyclopaedia of Applied Plant Sciences covers applied plant sciences Mineral nutrients are essential for plant growth and development. Mineral nutrition of plants is thus an area of fundamental importance for both basic and applied science.

Impressive progress has been made during the last decades in our understanding of the mechanisms of nutrient uptake and their functions in plant metabolism; at the same time, there have also been advances in increasing crop yields by the supply of mineral nutrients through fertilizer application.

The volume ‘Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants’ presents the principles of the mineral nutrition of plants. Although emphasis is placed on crop plants, examples are also presented from noncultivated plants including lower plants in cases where these examples are considered more suitable for demonstrating certain principles of mineral nutrition, either at a cellular level or as particular mechanisms of adaptation to adverse chemical soil conditions.

1. Nutritional Value of Soybean Meal

2. Advances in Soybean and Soybean By-Products in Monogastric Nutrition and Health

3. Cadmium Toxicity in Plants and Role of Mineral Nutrients in its Alleviation

4. Managing the Nutrition of Plants and People

5. Breeding for Micronutrients in Staple Food Crops from a Human Nutrition Perspective

6. Nutritional Management of Cereals Cropped Under Irrigation Conditions

7. Interactions Between Selenium and Sulphur Nutrition in Arabidopsis Thaliana

8. Cadmium-Induced Changes in the Growth and Oxidative Metabolism of Pea Plants

9. The Use of Glyphosate in Sugarcane: A Brazilian Experience

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