Description
Essential Minerals in Plant-Soil Systems: Coordination, Signaling and Interaction Under Adverse Conditions is the first book to encompass these key aspects of plant science, biochemistry, soil science and fertilizer development in a single volume. Describing the micro- and macronutrients in the plant-soil system with the help of suitable illustrations, the book connects all the pieces enabling comprehensive and connected understanding.
Terrestrial plants are sessile in nature. They face various adverse environmental conditions including soil nutrient-deficiency signals, which influence overall plant growth and development. Some of the essential nutrients are unreachable to roots due to their low solubility and relative immobilization. Thus, the soil-plant system has evolved signaling, communication and coordination responses for survival under multiple adverse situations. By evolving highly sophisticated mechanisms at the cellular as well as whole-plant scale, these plants have developed ways to co-regulate these stresses in order to maintain homeostasis.
Essential Minerals in Plant-Soil Systems covers recent advances in the understanding of how plants coordinate the acquisition, transport, signaling, and interaction, cross-talks between macro- and micro-nutrients in adverse environmental situations. These points are key to understanding the significance of essential, as well as beneficial, elements for sustainable plant growth and production.
This book is a valuable reference for those putting research into practice in addressing stress situations, as well as providing important foundational insights for further research.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of micro- and macronutrients and their interaction with phytohormones under stress conditions
- Explores proteomic and genomic research into deficiencies and toxicities in plant systems
- Highlights the use of nanobiotechnology for controlled release of micro- and macronutrients in the plant-soil systems
Table of Contents
1. Movement and signaling of macronutrients in plant system 2. Movement and signaling of micronutrients in plant system 3. Current understanding and interface between micro- and macronutrients in plant-soil system: An overview 4. Phytohormones signaling in the crosstalk among micronutrients and macronutrients deficiency or stress responses in plants 5. Signaling pathways underlying nitrogen-dependent changes in plant root system architecture 6. Complex regulation of phosphate and sulphate transport and signaling in plants 7. Complex regulation of potassium, calcium, and magnesium transport and signaling in plants 8. Environmental stress-induced alterations in the micro- and macronutrients status of plants 9. Cross talk between phytohormones and environmental signals in the regulation of mycorrhizal symbioses 10. Interactions among essential minerals homeostasis in nonmycorrhizal and mycorrhizal plants 11. Role of essential minerals and rhizosphere in plant under changing environmental conditions 12. Role of beneficial elements signaling and metabolic performance in plants under salt stress 13. Role of beneficial elements signaling and metabolic performance in plants under drought stress 14. Role of beneficial elements signaling and metabolic performance in plants under heavy metal stress 15. Exploring the role of beneficial elements in enhancing the resistance of plants to biotic stress 16. Role of microbiome for plant nutrient homeostasis 17. Soil properties influencing nutrient signaling in plant-soil systems 18. Plant response-driven fertilizer-nutrient development 19. Relationship and regulation of Fe and P deficiency in plants 20. Use of biotechnological techniques for augmenting micro- and macronutrients use efficiency in plant system 21. Proteomic and genomic investigations of micro- and macronutrients deficiency and toxicity in plant system 22. Use of nanobiotechnology in augmenting soil-plant system interaction for higher plant production
