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Mineral nutrition of plants : principles and perspectives / Emanuel Epstein, Arnold J. Bloom.

By: Epstein, EmanuelContributor(s): Bloom, Arnold J. (Arnold Jeffrey), 1950-Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, 2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiv, 400 p. : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmISBN: 0878931724; 9780878931729Subject(s): Plants -- Nutrition | Plants -- Effect of minerals on | Plants -- Assimilation | Plantes -- Nutrition | Plantes, Effets des mineraux sur les | Plantes -- Assimilation

Contents:

Introduction and history -- The media of plant nutrition --Inorganic components of plants -- Nutrient absorption by plants -- Upward movement of water and nutrients -- Downward movement of food and nutrients -- Nitrogen and sulfur : a tale of two nutrients -- Mineral metabolism -- Nutrition and growth -- Physiological genetics and molecular biology -- Ecology and environmental stress -- Big picture : past, present, future.

Summary: Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In this book, the authors explain that plant roots "mine" these nutrient elements from their inorganic substrate and introduce them into the realm of living things. The authors trace the subsequent movement of these nutrients into other plant organs, tissues, cells, and organelles, their biochemical assimilation, and their functions in plant physiology and metabolism. Treatment of these processes extends from molecular biology through global biogeochemistry.

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Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In this book, the authors explain that plant roots "mine" these nutrient elements from their inorganic substrate and introduce them into the realm of living things. The authors trace the subsequent movement of these nutrients into other plant organs, tissues, cells, and organelles, their biochemical assimilation, and their functions in plant physiology and metabolism. Treatment of these processes extends from molecular biology through global biogeochemistry.

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