The molecular and physiological basis of nutrient use efficiency in crops
By: edited by Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Peter Barraclough
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813819921
Subjects: Nutrition; Plant nutrients; Crops; Molecular aspects; Physiology; Crop yields
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Generic aspects of crop nutrition; title: Strategies for improving crop nutrient use efficiency / Malcolm J. Hawkesford; title: Crop root systems and nutrient uptake from soils / Peter Gregory; title: The role of the rhizosphere in nutrient use efficiency in crops / Petra Marschner; title: Optimising canopy physiology traits to improve the nutrient-utilization efficiency of crops / John Foulkes and Erik H. Murchie; title: Senescence and nutrient remobilization in crop plants / Per Gregersen; title: Effects of nitrogen and sulphur nutrition on grain composition and properties of wheat and related cereals / Peter R. Shewry; title: pt. 2. Nitrogen as a key driver of production; title: Overview of genetic improvement in wheat / Jacques Le Gouis; title: The molecular genetics of nitrogen use efficiency in crops / Bertrand Hirel and Peter J. Lea; title: Biotechnological approaches to improving NUE in plants : alanine aminotransferase as a case study / Allen G. Good and Perrin H. Beatty; title: Transporters involved in nitrogen uptake and movement / Anthony Miller and Nick Chapman; title: Crop improvement for nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated lowland rice / Shaobing Peng; title: pt. 3. Other critical macro- and micro-nutrients; title: Phosphorus as a critical macronutrient / Carroll Vance; title: Uptake, distribution and physiological functions of potassium, calcium and magnesium / Frans Maathuis and Dorina Podar; title: Sulfur nutrition in crops / Luit De Kok, Ineke Stulen and Malcolm J. Hawkesford; title: Iron nutrition and implications for biomass production and the nutritional quality of plant products / Jean-François Briat; title: Zinc in soils and crop nutrition / Behzad Sadeghzadeh and Zdenko Rengel; title: Overview of the acquisition and utilization of boron, chlorine, copper, manganese, molybdenum, and nickel by plants and prospects for improvement of micronutrient use efficiency / Patrick Brown and Elias Bassil; title: pt. 4. Specialised case studies; title: Drought and implications for nutrition / Eric Ober and Martin A.J. Parry; title: Salt resistance of crop plants : physiological characterization of a multigenic character / Sven Schubert; title: Legumes and nitrogen fixation : physiological, molecular, evolutionary perspectives and applications / Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran and Jean-Michel Ané.