Sustainable Solutions for Elemental Deficiency and Excess in Crop Plants (Paperback)

Part 1 - General aspects.- Chapter 1 - Elemental concentrations in soil, water and air.- Chapter 2 - Deficiency of essential elements in crop plants.- Chapter 3 - The toxicity and accumulation of metals in crop plants.- Chapter 4 - Effect of deficiency of essential elements and toxicity of metals on human health.- Chapter 5 - An overview of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium: Key players of nutrition process in plants.- Chapter 6 - The mechanisms of trace element uptake and transport up to grains of crop plants.- Chapter 7 - Biofortification of crop plants: A practical solution to tackle elemental deficiency.- Chapter 8 - An overview on management of micronutrients deficiency in plants through bio-fortification: a solution of hidden hunger.- Chapter 9 - Biological interventions towards management of essential elements in crop plants.- Chapter 10- Biotechnological approaches to enhance crop quality for iron and zinc nutrition.- Chapter 11- Toxic metals in crops: A burgeoning problem.- Chapter 12 - Heavy metal contamination of environment and crop plants.- Chapter 13 - Mechanism of Toxic Metal Uptake and Transport in Plants.- Chapter 14 - Cadmium: Bioavailability in Soils and Phytotoxicity.- Chapter 15 - Cadmium: Uptake in plants and its alleviation via crosstalk between phytohormones and sulfur.- Chapter 16- Agronomic management practices to tackle toxic metal entry into crop plants.- Chapter 17- Microbial inoculation to alleviate the metal toxicity in crop plants and subsequent growth promotion.- Chapter 18 - Genetic engineering to reduce toxicity and increase accumulation of toxic metals in plants.