Essential Plant Nutrients

Part I. Concepts of Plant Nutrients Uptake

1. Essential Plant Nutrients and Recent Concepts about their Uptake
Gyanendranath Mitra

2. Nutrient Uptake, Removal, and Cycling in Eucalyptus Species
Akbar Ali, M. Naeem, Tariq Ahmad Dar, Mohd. Idrees, M. Masroor A. Khan, Moin Uddin, Prem Kumar Dantu, Teg Bahadur Singh

3. Biochar’s Influence as a Soil Amendment for Essential Plant Nutrient Uptake
Viraj Gunarathne, Sonia Mayakaduwa, Meththika Vithanage

Part II. Plant Nutrients Use Efficiency

4. Nutrients Requirement of Medicinal Plants of Dhofar Region of Oman
Mohd. Idrees, Israr Ul Hassan, M. Naeem, Tariq Aftab, M. Masroor A. Khan

5. Quantitative Attributes of Nutrient Uptake and Use Efficiency
Manish Mathur, Arti Goel

6. Nutrient Use Efficiency
Dibyendu Sarkar, Lohit K. Baishya

7. Understanding the Dynamics of Phosphorus Starvation and Plant Growth
Tariq Ahmad Dar, Moin Uddin, Akbar Ali, M. Masroor A. Khan, Tanvir ul Hassan Dar

8. Response Pattern of Selected Tropical Perennials to Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers Based on Empirical Data
K. P. Baiyeri, F. D. Ugese

9. Unravelling the Impact of Essential Mineral Nutrients on Active Constituents of Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Minu Singh, Arlene Asthana Ali, M. Irfan Qureshi

Part III. Plant Nutrition and Abiotic Stress

10. Actions of Biological Trace Elements in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Anisur Rahman, Jubayer Al Mahmud, Shahadat Hossain, Khairul Alam, Hirosuke Oku, Masayuki Fujita

11. The Rhizosphere and Plant Nutrition Under Climate Change
Tarek Alshaal, Hassan El-Ramady, Abdullah H. Al-Saeedi, Tarek Shalaby, Tamer Elsakhawy, Alaa E.-D. Omara, Aliaa Gad, Eman Hamad, Ayman El-Ghamry, Ahmed Mosa, Megahed Amer, Neama Abdalla

12. Regulatory Role of Mineral Nutrients in Nurturing of Medicinal Legumes Under Salt Stress
M. Naeem, Abid A. Ansari, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Tariq Aftab, Mohd. Idrees, Akbar Ali, M. Masroor A. Khan

13. Role of Iron in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress
Zaid ul Hassan, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Qasim Ali, Muhammad Zulqarnain Haider, Muhammad Adrees, Afzal Hussain

14. Role of Zinc in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress
Zaid ul Hassan, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Afzal Hussain, Zaheer Akbar, Nasir Rasool, Faraht Abbas

15. Calcium Application Enhances Plant Salt Tolerance: A Review
Bouzid Nedjimi

16. Short-Term Transformation and Dynamics of Main Nutrients in Soil
Katalin Sárdi

Part IV. Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Nutrition

17. Genetic Engineering and Molecular Strategies for Nutrient Manipulation in Plants
Claudio Inostroza-Blancheteau, Felipe Aquea, Felipe Moraga, Cristian Ibañez, Zed Rengel, Marjorie Reyes-Díaz

Part V. Management of Plant Nutrients

18. Nutrient Management for Improving Crop, Soil, and Environmental Quality
Kaushik Batabyal

19. Leaching of Plant Nutrients from Agricultural Lands
I. Rashmi, Abhay Shirale, K. S. Kartikha, K. C. Shinogi, B. P. Meena, S. Kala

20. Plant-Microbe Interactions for Phosphate Management in Tropical Soils
Nelson W. Osorio, Laura Osorno, Juan D. Leon, Claudia Álvarez

21. Improving Plant Phosphorus (P) Acquisition by Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria
Muhammad Saleem Arif, Sher Muhammad Shahzad, Tahira Yasmeen, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Muhammad Salman Mubarik, Rizwana Kausar

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture