About the Book
Section I: Concepts of Plant Nutrients Uptake
1. Essential Plant Nutrients and Recent Concepts about their Uptake2. Status and Importance of Nutrients for Plant Growth & Development-Role of essential and beneficial nutrients in plant growth and development3. Nutrient deficiency: its impact on crop productivity4. Quantitative Attributes of Nutrient Uptake and Use Efficiency5. Biochar as soil amendment for essential plant nutrient uptake
Section II: Plant Nutrients Use Efficiency6. Nutrient use efficiency
7. Understanding the Dynamics of Phosphorus Starvation and Plant Growth
8. Response pattern of selected tropical perennials to organic and inorganic fertilizers based on empirical data
9. Unraveling the Impact of Essential Mineral Nutrients on Active Constituents of Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Section III: Plant Nutrition and Abiotic Stress10. Actions of biological trace elements in plant abiotic stress tolerance
11. Regulatory Role of Mineral Nutrients and PGRs in Nurturing of Medicinal Legumes under Salt Stress
12. Role of Iron in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress
13. Calcium Applications Enhances Plant Salt Tolerance: A Review
14. Short-term transformation and dynamics of main nutrients in soil15. Nitrogen recycling and remobilisation are differentially controlled by leaf senescence
Section IV: Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Nutrition16. Genetic engineering and molecular strategies for nutrient manipulation in plants
17. Genotypic factors determining nutrient use efficiency in plants
18. Regulating root activity and nutrient uptake in plants: molecular physiological mechanisms
19. Plant mineral nutrition and membrane transport in plants
Section V: 20. Efficient Management of Plant Nutrients for Augmenting Crop, Soil and Environmental Quality
21. Leaching of plant nutrients from agricultural lands and its management
22. Plant-microbe interactions for phosphate management in tropical soils
23. Plant-microbe interaction for nutrient management
24. Improving plant phosphorus (P) acquisition by phosphate solubilizing rhizobacteria under P deficient environment
25. Soil microorganisms and nutrient phytoremediation
26. Nutrient Management: Getting Ready for Battle against Biotic Stress
List of Contributors
Gyanendranath Mitra, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Soil Science and Biochemistry, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar, India
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Isabel Cacador, MARE, Marine and Environmental Science Center, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Manish Mathur, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, IndiaArti Goel, Amity Institute of Microbial Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India
Meththika Vithanage, Chemical and Environmental Systems Modeling Research Group, National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Dibyendu Sarkar, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, India
Lohit K. Baishya, Indian Council of Agricultural Research Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region Imphal, Manipur, India
Tariq Ahmad Dar, Centre For Biodiversity Studies, School Of Biosciences and B
About the Author: Dr. M. Naeem
Dr. M. Naeem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. For more than a decade, he has devoted his research to improving the yield and quality of commercially important medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs). His research focuses on escalating the production of MAPs and their active principles using a novel and safe technique involving radiation-processed polysaccharides as well as the application of potent PGRs. To date, he has successfully run three major research projects as the Principal Investigator, two of which were sanctioned by the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi. He also completed another fascinating research project on Catharanthus roseus awarded by CSTUP, Lucknow. Dr. Naeem has published more than 80 research papers in reputable national and international journals as well as six books. He has also participated in various national and international conferences and acquired life membership
s to various scientific bodies in India and abroad. Based on his research contributions, Dr. Naeem has been awarded a Research Associateship from the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi; a Young Scientist Award (2011) from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh; a Fast Track Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science & Technology, India; a Young Scientist of the Year Award (2015) from the Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, Kolkata; and a Rashtriya Gaurav Award (2016) from the International Friendship Society, New Delhi.Dr. Abid A. Ansari
Dr. Abid A. Ansari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ansari's research work is concerned with phytoremediation and eutrophication. Dr. Ansari has to his credit a number of research articles of national and international repute, 10 edited books and a number of book chapters on varied aspects of his resea
rch. He has been awarded Scientist of the Year 2014 & Environmentalist of the Year 2011 by National Environmental Science Academy, India and Research Excellence 2016 by University of Tabuk. He has also participated in various national and international conferences and acquired memberships to various scientific bodies (Saudi Biological Society, International Phytotechnology Society, Society for Ecological Restoration).Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill
Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Assistant Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, MD University, Rohtak, India, has made significant contributions towards abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. His research includes abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants, reactive oxygen species signaling and antioxidant machinery, gene expression, helicases, crop improvement, transgenics, nitrogen & sulfur metabolism and plant fungal symbiotic interactions. Together with Dr. Narendra Tuteja at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and B
iotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, he worked on plant helicases and discovered a novel function of plant MCM6, PDH45 and p68 in salinity stress tolerance that will help improve crop production at sub-optimal conditions. A recipient of the Junior Scientist of the Year Award 2008 from the National Environmental Science Academy, Dr. Gill has edited several books and has a number of research papers, review articles, and book chapters to his name.
