Description
Book SynopsisEfforts to increase efficient nutrient use by crops are of growing importance as the global demand for food, fibre and fuel increases and competition for resources intensifies. This book provides both a timely summary of the latest advances in the field as well as anticipating directions for future research.
Trade Review“There are then a series of excellent individual chapters on phosphorus, the cationic macronutrients potassium, calcium and magnesium, sulphur, iron, zinc and the micronutrients boron, chlorine, copper, manganese, molybdenum and nickel.” (Experimental Agriculture, 2012)
Table of ContentsPreface vii
Contributors ix
Part I: Generic Aspects of Crop Nutrition 3
Chapter 1 An Overview of Nutrient Use Efficiency and Strategies for Crop Improvement 5
Malcolm J. Hawkesford
Chapter 2 Crop Root Systems and Nutrient Uptake from Soils 21
Peter J. Gregory
Chapter 3 The Role of the Rhizosphere in Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops 47
Petra Marschner
Chapter 4 Optimizing Canopy Physiology Traits to Improve the Nutrient Utilization Efficiency of Crops 65
M. John Foulkes and Erik H. Murchie
Chapter 5 Senescence and Nutrient Remobilization in Crop Plants 83
Per L. Gregersen
Chapter 6 Effects of Nitrogen and Sulfur Nutrition on Grain Composition and Properties of Wheat and Related Cereals 103
Peter R. Shewry
Part II: Nitrogen as a Key Driver of Production 121
Chapter 7 Genetic Improvement of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Wheat 123
Jacques Le Gouis
Chapter 8 The Molecular Genetics of Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops 139
Bertrand Hirel and Peter J. Lea
Chapter 9 Biotechnological Approaches to Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants: Alanine Aminotransferase as a Case Study 165
Allen G. Good and Perrin H. Beatty
Chapter 10 Transporters Involved in Nitrogen Uptake and Movement 193
Anthony J. Miller and Nick Chapman
Chapter 11 Crop Improvement for Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Irrigated Lowland Rice 211
Shaobing Peng
Part III: Other Critical Macro- and Micronutrients 227
Chapter 12 Phosphorus as a Critical Macronutrient 229
Carroll P. Vance
Chapter 13 Uptake, Distribution, and Physiological Functions of Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium 265
Frans J.M. Maathuis and Dorina Podar
Chapter 14 Sulfur Nutrition in Crop Plants 295
Luit J. De Kok, Ineke Stulen, and Malcolm J. Hawkesford
Chapter 15 Iron Nutrition and Implications for Biomass Production and the Nutritional Quality of Plant Products 311
Jean-François Briat
Chapter 16 Zinc in Soils and Crop Nutrition 335
Behzad Sadeghzadeh and Zed Rengel
Chapter 17 Overview of the Acquisition and Utilization of Boron, Chlorine, Copper, Manganese, Molybdenum, and Nickel by Plants and Prospects for Improvement of Micronutrient Use Efficiency 377
Patrick H. Brown and Elias Bassil
Part IV: Specialized Case Studies 429
Chapter 18 Drought and Implications for Nutrition 431
Eric Ober and Martin A.J. Parry
Chapter 19 Salt Resistance of Crop Plants: Physiological Characterization of a Multigenic Trait 443
Sven Schubert
Chapter 20 Legumes and Nitrogen Fixation: Physiological, Molecular, Evolutionary Perspectives, and Applications 457
Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran and Jean-Michel Ané
Index 491
