1. Roles and Functions of Plant Mineral Nutrients
Frans J.M. Maathuis and Eugene Diatloff
2. Plant Growth and Cultivation
Dorina Podar
3. Protocols for Growing Plant Symbioses; Mycorrhiza
Michael Schultze
4. Protocols For Growing Plant Symbioses; Hizobia
Benjamin Gourion, Marie Bourcy, Viviane Cosson and Pascal Ratet
5. Plant Cell Suspension Cultures
Roberto Moscatiello, Barbara Baldan, and Lorella Navazio
6. Soil Analysis using Visible and Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Johanna Wetterlind, Bo Stenberg and Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel
7. Mineral Composition Analysis: Measuring Anion Uptake and Anion Concentrations in Plant Tissues
Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Saroj Parmar and Peter Buchner
8. Multi-element Plant Tissue Analysis using ICP Spectrometry
T.H. Hansen, T.C. de Bang, K.H. Laursen, P. Pedas, S. Husted and J.K. Schjoerring
9. Mapping Element Distributions in Plant Tissues using Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Techniques
Erica Donner, Martin D. de Jonge, Peter M. Kopittke, and Enzo Lombi
10. Flux Measurements of Cations using Radioactive Tracers
D.T. Britto and H.J. Kronzucker
11. Ion Flux Measurements using the MIFE Technique
Sergey Shabala, Lana Shabala, Jayakumar Bose, Tracey Cuin, and Ian Newman
12. Sampling and Analysis of Phloem Sap
Sylvie Dinant and Julia Kehr
13. Methods for Xylem Sap Collection
Alexou M. and Peuke A.D
14. Plant Single Cell Sampling
Wieland Fricke
15. Measurements of Cytosolic Ion Concentrations in Live Cells
Veena S Anil, Kavitha P G, Sam Kuruvilla, Pavan Kumar and M K Mathew
16. Real Time Measurement of Cytoplasmic Ions with Ion Selective Microelectrodes
Anthony J Miller
17. Large Scale Plant Ionomics
John M. C. Danku, Brett Lahner, Elena Yakubova, and David E. Salt
18. Applications of High-throughput Plant Phenotyping to Study Nutrient use Efficiency
Bettina Berger, Bas de Regt, and Mark Tester