Sustainable Plant Nutrition

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.

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Tariq Aftab received his PhD from the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, where he is currently a Senior Assistant Professor. He is the recipient of a prestigious Leibniz DAAD fellowship from Germany, a Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from both the State Government of Uttar Pradesh and the Government of India. He has also served as a Visiting Scientist at IPK Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University, United States. Dr. Aftab has edited numerous books for major international publishers, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, and CRC Press. He has co-authored several book chapters and published extensively in peer-reviewed, international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants. 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.

Inhalt

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