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Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change

  • 1st Edition - September 19, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Vinay Kumar, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Penna Suprasanna
  • Language: English

Plant nutrients are the vital elements essential for plant growth and survival, with key roles in adapting to challenging environments. Each nutrient, whether required in relativel… Read more

Description

Plant nutrients are the vital elements essential for plant growth and survival, with key roles in adapting to challenging environments. Each nutrient, whether required in relatively large (macronutrients) or minute concentrations (micronutrients) plays a unique role in plant life cycle. Both the insufficient and surplus concentrations of these nutrients may render negative impacts on plant growth and development and therefore their homeostasis is considered critical for optimal plant growth and yield.

Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change comprehensively reviews all critical plant nutrients. Chapters include topics such as: biological roles, uptake and transport of vital nutrients in plants; an in-depth review of the roles of potassium, calcium, magnesium and trace element; molecular breeding approaches for enhanced plant nutrients; and exploring the rhizosphere microbiome for enhance nutrient availability.

Written by leading experts in the field of plant biology, this is an essential read for researchers and scientists interested in plant science, agronomy, food security and environmental science.

Key features

  • A comprehensive review of all the important plant nutrients
  • Discusses plant homeostasis under natural and changing environments
  • Introduces novel approaches and state-of-the-art tool for enhancing the levels of targeted nutrients within plant tissues

Readership

Researchers interested in plant science, agronomy, food security and environmental science

Table of contents

1. Entangling the interaction between essential and nonessential nutrients: implications for global food security

2. The importance of beneficial and essential trace and ultratrace elements in plant nutrition, growth, and stress tolerance

3. Crop nitrogen use efficiency for sustainable food security and climate change mitigation

4. Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security

5. Potassium: an emerging signal mediator in plants?

6. Exploring the relationship between plant secondary metabolites and macronutrient homeostasis

7. Water and nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change: impacts on food security and product quality

8. Soilless indoor smart agriculture as an emerging enabler technology for food and nutrition security amidst climate change

9. Plant ionomics: toward high-throughput nutrient profiling

10. Cobalt and molybdenum: deficiency, toxicity, and nutritional role in plant growth and development

11. Interplay between sodium and chloride decides the plant’s fate under salt and drought stress conditions

12. Drought and nitrogen stress effects and tolerance mechanisms in tomato: a review

13. Arsenic stress and mineral nutrition in plants

14. Recent advances in micronutrient foliar spray for enhancing crop productivity and managing abiotic stress tolerance

15. Biotechnological tools for manipulating nutrient homeostasis in plants

16. Crop biofortification and food security

17. Biotechnological approaches for generating iron-rich crops

18. Use of nanomaterials in plant nutrition

19. Plant beneficial microbes in mitigating the nutrient cycling for sustainable agriculture and food security

20. Nutritional imbalance in plants under rising atmospheric CO2

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 23, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Vinay Kumar

Dr Vinay Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University. He has received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Punjabi University, Patiala. His area of research is additive manufacturing and the application of 3D printing for the development of new customizable solutions for structural and non-structural defects in heritage structures, and biomaterials for clinical applications. He has contributed extensively to additive manufacturing literature with publications appearing in Composite Part: B, Materials Letters, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Journal of Thermoplastic composite Materials, Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Sadhana, Materials Research Express, Advances in Materials Processing Technology, Proceedings of Institute of Mechanical Engineers Part-B, Part E, Part H, Part L, etc. He has authored 30 research papers and 25 book chapters

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, India

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Ashish Kumar Srivastava

Dr. Ashish Kumar Srivastava is a Scientific Officer at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. His research is focussed on developing strategies for enhancing crop resilience towards different abiotic stresses. The stimulatory potential of thiourea has been demonstrated for enhancing stress tolerance and crop productivity through lab and small-scale field experiments, and by conducting multi-location field trials at salt-, drought- and arsenic-affected fields. The molecular mechanism of stress perception and tolerance has been elucidated using systems-biology based approach. He has more than 50 research and review articles and book chapters to his credit. He has been awarded Young Scientist Award of National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad in 2018, Young Scientist Medal from Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2014 and Young Scientist Award from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in 2014. He has also received Newton-Bhabha International Grant from DBT-BBSRC in 2018, President International Fellowship from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2016 and EMBO Short term Fellowship in 2011.
Affiliations and expertise
Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India, and Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India

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Penna Suprasanna

Penna Suprasanna, PhD in Genetics, is the former Head of the Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India. He has made significant contributions to plant biotechnology, mutation breeding, stress tolerance, and novel biopolymers, and his research has advanced the molecular understanding of abiotic stress tolerance in crops and salinity-adaptive mechanisms in halophytes. He serves on the editorial boards of several national and international journals and has edited multiple books, which demonstrate a coherent research-and-translation agenda across breeding, nutrition, and digital agriculture.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director, Amity Centre for Nuclear Biotechnology, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Maharashtra, Mumbai, India

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