Mineral Nutrition of Crops
Subtitle: Fundamental Mechanisms and Implications
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781560228806
Subjects: Crop husbandry; Mineralogy; Soil science, sedimentology; Soil Mineralogy; Field Crop Management; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - General; Effect of minerals on; Crops; Nutrition
First sentence: The importance of rhizodeposition and soil microorganisms in plant nutrition is clearly evident in nature, where plant nutrient uptake is directly coupled to nutrient cycling from organic matter, solubilization of metals by root exudates, and the formation of symbiotic relationships with fungi and bacteria.