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