Sustainable Plant Nutrition

Molecular Interventions and Advancements for Crop Improvement

1st Edition - October 20, 2022
Imprint: Academic Press
Editors: Tariq Aftab, Khalid Rehman Hakeem
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 6 7 5 - 2
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Sustainable 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.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
About the editors
Chapter one. Physiological and molecular aspects of macronutrient uptake by higher plants
1. Introduction
2. Importance of macronutrients for plants?
3. Macronutrients role for sustainability of crop system
4. Root system architecture (RSA) modulation
5. Molecular mechanism and signaling transport of macronutrients in plants
6. Nutrient interaction with plants to enhance NUE and decrease ecological footprints
7. Nutrient use efficiency dependent crop production
8. Future prospects and conclusion
Chapter two. Plant nutrition and soil fertility: physiological and molecular avenues for crop improvement
1. Introduction
2. Soil fertility and plant nutrition
3. Micronutrients
4. Role of Mn in plants
5. Role of Cu in plant development
6. Role of iron in plants
7. Role of boron in plants
8. Role of selenium in plants
9. Zinc (Zn)
10. Molybdenum (Mo)
11. Nickel (Ni)
12. Chlorine (Cl)
13. Macronutrients
14. Nitrogen (N)
15. Phosphorus (P)
16. Sulfur (S)
17. Potassium (K)
18. Calcium (Ca)
19. Magnesium (Mg)
20. Conclusion
Chapter three. Nutrient acquisition, transport and metabolism within the plant cells
1. Introduction
2. Nutrient acquisition
3. Nutrient acquisition strategies of plants
4. Cellular mechanism of plant for nutrient acquisition and uptake
5. Nutrient transport within the plant
6. Mechanisms and molecular characters involved for nutrient transport
7. Nutrient metabolism within the cell
8. Conclusion
Chapter four. Climate change and plant nutrient availability: challenges and assessment strategies
1. Introduction
2. Climate change as a global challenge
3. Impact of excessive CO2 and plant nutrient availability
4. Impact of eCO2 on protein accumulation
5. Impact of excessive temperature and plant nutrient availability
6. Impact of excessive light and plant nutrient availability
7. Molecular adaptations in plants in response to the changing climate
8. Assessment strategies to overcome nutrient loss in changing climate
9. Conclusion
Chapter five. Role of mineral nutrients in biological nitrogen fixation
1. Introduction
2. Mechanism of nitrogen fixation
3. Factors affecting biological nitrogen fixation
4. Function of mineral nutrients in BNF
5. Conclusion
Chapter six. Molecular basis of plant nutrient use efficiency - concepts and challenges for its improvement
1. Introduction
2. Physiological processes involved in NUE
3. Breeding efforts for traits related to NUE
4. Molecular basis of N, P and K use efficiency
5. Molecular basis of micronutrient use efficiency
6. Molecular mechanism of nutrient uptake and transport
7. Molecular mechanism of nutrient assimilation and remobilization
8. Molecular mechanism of modulation of root system architecture
9. Factors affecting NUE
10. Way forward for the improvement of crops for NUE
11. Conclusion
Chapter seven. Use of nanoparticles and fertilizers in alleviating heavy metals and improving nutrients uptake in plants
1. Introduction
2. Effect of nano-fertilizers on plant growth
3. Nutrients distribution in soil after nano-fertilizers application
4. Impact of nano-fertilizers on essential nutrients and heavy metals bioavailability
5. Improvement in antioxidant defense system in plants by nano-ferilizers
6. Conclusion
Chapter eight. Role and importance of microorganisms in plant nutrition and remediation of potentially toxic elements contaminated soils
1. Introduction
2. Potentially toxic elements
3. Methods for the remediation of PTEs contaminated soils
4. Importance of microorganisms in soil health and soil remediation
5. Bioremediation of PTEs in contaminated soils
6. Factors influencing on the success of bioremediation of PTEs
7. Bioavailability of PTEs
8. Mechanism of bioremediation of PTEs from soil
9. Speciation and mobility of PTEs
10. Microbe-assisted phytoremediation
11. Conclusions
Chapter nine. Plant nutrition, transport, mechanism and sensing in plants
1. Introduction
2. Plants essential nutrients
3. Macronutrients
4. Nitrogen
5. Nitrate uptake
6. Ammonium uptake
7. Uptake of amino acids
8. Urea uptake
9. Factors determining the quantity of nitrogen contributing by the soil
10. Deficiency of nitrogen in plants
11. Abundance of nitrogen in plants
12. Potassium
13. Deficiency of potassium in plants
14. Phosphorous
15. Transport and uptake of phosphorus
16. Deficiency of phosphorous in plants
17. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
18. Secondary nutrients
19. Micronutrients/trace nutrients
20. Nutrients of plants essential for growth, development and reproduction
21. Nutrients uptake by plants
22. Mechanism of nitrate uptake by plants
23. Mechanism for nutrient sensing in plants
24. Nitrate as a signal for transporting in plant cells
25. Phosphate as a signal for transporting in plant cells
26. Potassium as a signal for transporting in plant cells
27. Conclusion
Chapter ten. Role of inorganic bio stimulant elements in plant growth
1. Introduction
2. Inorganic plant biostimulants: fate in soil and plants
3. Inorganic plant biostimulants: molecular aspects of the role in plant's metabolism
4. Future prospects and summary
Chapter eleven. Role of microorganisms in plant nutrition and soil health
1. Introduction
2. Microbial strains and plant nutrient bioavailability
3. Role of microbes in maintaining soil health
4. Role of microorganisms in plant nutrition
5. Conclusions
Chapter twelve. Integrated nutrient management strategies for improving crop yield
1. Introduction
2. Concept of INM
3. Main principles of INM
4. Components of INM
5. Quality of soil and agricultural productivity
6. Impact of INM on physical properties of soil
7. Impact of INM on fertility of soil
8. Impact of biofertilizer on the productivity of crops
9. Methods for the further advancement of INM
10. Conclusion
Chapter thirteen. Use of nano-fertilizers to improve the nutrient use efficiencies in plants
1. Introduction
2. Importance of nano-fertilizers in agriculture
3. Nano-fertilizers: a better alternative to conventional fertilizers
4. Properties of nano fertilizers
5. Nano-fertilizers for better plant growth and nutrition use efficiency (NUE)
6. Formulation of nano-fertilizer for smart nutrients delivery
7. Macronutrients based nano-fertilizers
8. Micronutrients based nano-fertilizers
9. Conclusion
Chapter fourteen. Mulching with organic matters has potential of remediation in ecosystem
1. Introduction
2. Potential agricultural and environmental benefits of mulches
3. Mulch can potentially maintain soil moisture
4. Mulch improves soil fertility
5. Mulch helps in alleviating salt stress
6. Role of mulching in growth, development and yield of plant
7. Future research and gaps
8. Summary remarks
9. Conclusion
Chapter fifteen. How and why to prevent over fertilization to get sustainable crop production
1. Introduction
2. Losses of over-fertilization
3. Over fertilization management
4. Integrating sustainability goals and cropping system management objectives
5. Possibilities to strengthen fertilizer management
6. Conclusion
Chapter sixteen. Molecular basis of abiotic stress alleviation by nanoparticles
1. Introduction
2. Nanoparticles uptake and translocation mechanism in plants
3. Effect of nanoparticles on growth and physiology of plants under stress conditions
4. Role of NPs in various abiotic stress management
5. Conclusion
Chapter seventeen. Insight on abiotic stress management in plants by improving plant nutritional status
1. Introduction
2. Global warming causes abiotic stress and ROS production
3. Conclusions
Index

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, India

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

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