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Sustainable Plant Nutrition
Molecular Interventions and Advancements for Crop Improvement
- 1st Edition - October 20, 2022
- Editors: Tariq Aftab, Khalid Rehman Hakeem
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 7 5 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 7 6 - 9
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Request a sales quoteSustainable Plant Nutrition: Molecular Interventions and Advancements for Crop Improvement explores the significant opportunities for sustainable, eco-friendly approaches in plant nutrition and agricultural crop production. The book highlights the various prospects involved in optimizing plant nutrient uptake agriculture and includes chapters representing diverse areas dealing with biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular biology, proteomics, genomics and metabolomics. This book is an ideal resource for those seeking to ensure a sustainable plant production future.
While plants have evolved a set of elaborate mechanisms to cope with nutrient limitations, the traditional supplementation by the application of fertilizers to plant productivity may then lead to overfertilization which can actually reduce plant growth and have adverse effects on the environment. To tackle these issues, a detailed understanding of the responses of plants to nutrients and nutrient deficiency at the physiological, metabolic, transcriptome and epigenetic level is essential.
- Illustrates the central role of sustainable plant nutrition to address current and future challenges
- Presents global insights and research ranging from signaling to sensing and translational research
- Provides a forward-looking perspective for future plans of action
Researchers, academics and advanced level students in agriculture and plant science. Those focused on plant mineral nutrition, sensing and signaling as well as agricultural sustainability
1. Plant nutrition and soil fertility: Physiological and molecular avenues for crop improvement
2. Nutrient acquisition, transport and metabolism within the plant cells
3. Molecular basis of plant nutrient use efficiency - concepts and challenges for its improvement
4. Role of mineral nutrients in biological nitrogen fixation
5. Physiological and molecular aspects of macronutrient uptake by higher plants
6. Physiological and molecular aspects of micronutrient uptake by higher plants
7. Physiological, molecular and epigenetic revelations in nutrient requirement status of crops influenced by intercropping
8. Nutrient sensing in plants
9. Use of nano-fertilizers to improve the nutrient use efficiencies
10. Why and how to prevent over-fertilization for sustainable crop productivity
11. Molecular basis of abiotic stress alleviation by micronutrients
12. Nutrient dependent regulation of root architecture
13. Phytohormone dependant regulation of mineral nutrients in plants
14. Strategies for enhancing nitrogen and phosphorus efficiency in crop production systems
15. Metabolite flux analysis to understand effects of mineral nutrition on crop physiology
16. Role of microorganisms in plant nutrition and soil health
17. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and root system functioning
18. Regulation of expression of genes encoding nutrient transporters in higher plants
19. Improving nutrient use efficiency by exploiting genetic engineering of crops
20. Role of inorganic biostimulants and beneficial elements in improving nutrient uses efficiency in crops
- No. of pages: 430
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 20, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443186752
- eBook ISBN: 9780443186769
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Tariq Aftab
Tariq Aftab received his PhD degree in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently an Assistant Professor there. He received prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, a Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh and Government of India. He has worked as Visiting Scientist at IPK, Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, United States. He has edited 14 books with international publishers, including Elsevier Inc., Springer Nature, and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), co-authored several book chapters, and published over 65 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IndiaKH
Khalid Rehman Hakeem
Dr. Khalid Rehman Hakeem (PhD) is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has more both teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He has served as the visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He has more than 110 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals has extensive book publishing experience as well. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is a fellow of Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Makkah Province Kingdom of Saudi Arabia