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Book SynopsisNitrogen fertilizers are necessary to enhance agricultural production and to sustain food security. However, their inefficient use accrues from inherent limitations of the crop plants as well as the manner in which N fertilizers are formulated, applied and managed. The main aim of the book is to assess the various aspects of the fate of fertilizer N in context of the overall N inputs to agricultural systems, with a view to enhance the efficiency of nitrogen use and reduce the negative impacts on environment. The cross cutting issues relate to improvement in nitrogen use by emerging technologies genetic enhancement, QTL mapping, meeting N needs by understanding its interactions with other nutrients, and mitigation of nitrogen losses caused by environmental factors and management practices. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants develops links between basic and applied research and practical crop production by addressing a wide range of topics relating to nitrogen use efficiency, and to plant and crop responses to applications of nitrogen via fertilizers, including nitrogen acquisition and reduction, molecular approaches, nitrate induction and signaling; and nitrogen use under abiotic stresses. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants is an invaluable classroom aid for academics working in plant physiology, biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular breeding and agronomy, and an essential professional resource for researchers working in plant and crop systems as it provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of problems related to the efficient use of nitrogen in agriculture.
Table of Contents1. Physiological and Molecular Aspects of Nitrate Transporters in Plants/Ishrat Khan, Jyotimayee Nayak, Renu Pandey and Altaf Ahmad. 2. Post-Translational Regulation of Nitrate Reductase/Steven C. Huber, Werner M. Kaiser and Vanita Jain. 3. Nitrate Sensing and Signaling in Genomewide Plant N Response/Navjyoti Chakraborty and Nandula Raghuram. 4. Molecular Approaches to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency/Vanita Jain, Lekshmy. S and P. Ananda Kumar. 5. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Higher Plants Under Drought, High Temperature, Salinity and Heavy Metal Contaminations/Rana P. Singh, Kuldeeep Bauddh, Manish Sainger, Poonam Ahlawat Sainger, Jaishankar Singh and P.K. Jaiwal. 6. Interactive Effects of Potassium and Nitrogen Nutrition on Physiological Use Efficiency of Nitrogen and Crop Yield/Shahid Umar, Anjana and Muhammad Iqbal. 7. Impact of Nitrogen and Micronutrient Interactions on Yield, Quality and Nutrient Use Efficiency/Joginder S. Manchanda and Milkha S. Aulakh. 8. Effect of Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Nitrogen and Protein Concentrations of Crops/Daniel R. Taub and Xianzhong Wang. 9. Nitrogen Management for Climate Change Mitigation/H. Pathak, A. Bhatia and B. Chakrabarti.
