Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants Concepts and Approaches /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hawkesford, Malcolm J. (Editor), Kopriva, Stanislav (Editor), De Kok, Luit J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Plant Ecophysiology, 10
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant ecology.; Plant physiology.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Physiology.; Soil Science & Conservation.

Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches is the ninth volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series. It presents a broad overview of topics related to improvement of nutrient use efficiency of crops. Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) is a measure of how well plants use the available mineral...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Physiological basis of plant nutrient use efficiency – concepts, chances and challenges for its improvement
• 2. Natural variation as a tool to investigate nutrient use efficiency in plants
• 3. Macronutrient use efficiency – sulfur in Arabidopsis thaliana
• 4. Efficient mineral nutrition: Genetic improvement of phosphate use efficiency in crops
• 5. Micronutrient use efficiency - cell biology of iron and its metabolic interactions in plants
• 6. Boron: A promising micronutrient for the increase in growth and yield of plants
• 7. Role of autophagy in plant nutrient deficiency
• 8 Mineral nutrient depletion affects plant development and crop yield
• 9 Crop nutrition and nutrient use efficiency under elevated CO2
• 10. Monitoring plant nutritional status
• Index.