Essential Plant Nutrients: Uptake, Use Efficiency, and Management (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Section I: Concepts of Plant Nutrients Uptake 1. Essential Plant Nutrients and Recent Concepts about their Uptake 2. Status and Importance of Nutrients for Plant Growth & Development-Role of essential and beneficial nutrients in plant growth and development 3. Nutrient deficiency: its impact on crop productivity 4. Quantitative Attributes of Nutrient Uptake and Use Efficiency 5. Biochar as soil amendment for essential plant nutrient uptake Section II: Plant Nutrients Use Efficiency 6. Nutrient use efficiency 7. Understanding the Dynamics of Phosphorus Starvation and Plant Growth 8. Response pattern of selected tropical perennials to organic and inorganic fertilizers based on empirical data 9. Unraveling the Impact of Essential Mineral Nutrients on Active Constituents of Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Section III: Plant Nutrition and Abiotic Stress 10. Actions of biological trace elements in plant abiotic stress tolerance 11. Regulatory Role of Mineral Nutrients and PGRs in Nurturing of Medicinal Legumes under Salt Stress 12. Role of Iron in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress 13. Calcium Applications Enhances Plant Salt Tolerance: A Review 14. Short-term transformation and dynamics of main nutrients in soil 15. Nitrogen recycling and remobilisation are differentially controlled by leaf senescence Section IV: Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Nutrition 16. Genetic engineering and molecular strategies for nutrient manipulation in plants 17. Genotypic factors determining nutrient use efficiency in plants 18. Regulating root activity and nutrient uptake in plants: molecular physiological mechanisms 19. Plant mineral nutrition and memb rane transport in plants Section V: 20. Efficient Management of Plant Nutrients for Augmenting Crop, Soil and Environmental Quality 21. Leaching of plant nutrients from agricultural lands and its management 22. Plant-microbe interactions for phosphate management in tropical soils 23. Plant-microbe interaction for nutrient management 24. Improving plant phosphorus (P) acquisition by phosphate solubilizing rhizobacteria under P deficient environment 25. Soil microorganisms and nutrient phytoremediation 26. Nutrient Management: Getting Ready for Battle against Biotic Stress List of Contributors Gyanendranath Mitra, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Soil Science and Biochemistry, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, India ,="" department="" of="" agronomy="" and="" medicinal="" plants,="" faculty="" agriculture,="" islamic="" azad="" university,="" iran Isabel Cacador, MARE, Marine and Environmental Science Center, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Manish Mathur, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India Arti Goel, Amity Institute of Microbial Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India Meththika Vithanage, Chemical and Environmental Systems Modeling Research Group, National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka Dibyendu Sarkar, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, India Lohit K. Baishya, Indian Council of Agricultural Research Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region Imphal, Manipur, India Tariq Ahmad Dar, Centre For Biodiversity Studies, School Of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, India Moin Uddin, Botany Section, Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India M. Masroor A. Khan, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Akbar Ali, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India K.P. Baiyeri, Dept. of Crop Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria F. D. Ugese, Dept. of Crop Production, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria Minu Singh, Proteomics & Bioinformatics Lab, Department of