Broadley, White

Plant Nutritional Genomics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 'textbook' plant typically comprises about 85% water and 13.5% carbohydrates. The remaining fraction contains at least 14 mineral elements, without which plants would be unable to complete their life cycles. Understanding plant nutrition and applying this knowledge to practical use is important for several reasons. First, an understanding of plant nutrition allows fertilisers to be used more wisely. Second, the nutritional composition of crops must be tailored to meet the health of humans and livestock. Third, many regions of the world are currently unsuitable for crop production, and an understanding of plant nutrition can be used to develop strategies either for the remediation of this land or for the cultivation of novel crops. That application of knowledge of plant nutrition can be achieved through genotypic or agronomic approaches. Genotypic approaches, based on crop selection and / or breeding (conventional or GM), have recently begun to benefit from technological advances, including the completion of plant genome sequencing projects. This book provides an overview of how "plant nutritional genomics," defined as "the interaction between a plant's genome and its nutritional characteristics," has developed in the light of these technological advances, and how this new knowledge might usefully be applied. This is a book for researchers and professionals in plant molecular genetics, biochemistry and physiology, in both the academic and industrial sectors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781405121149
• ISBN-10: 1405121149
• Artikelnr.: 23514059

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nitrogen. Françoise Daniel-Vedele and Sylvain Chaillou
Plant Nitrogen Nutrition Unit
INRA Versailles
Frances. 2. Potassium. Sabine Zimmermann and Isabelle Chérel
INRA - Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes
Montpellier
France. 3. Calcium. Philip J. White
Horticulture Research International
Wellesbourne
Warwick
UK. 4. Sulphur. Malcolm J. Hawkesford
Agriculture and the Environment Division
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden
UK. 5. Phosphorus. Kashchandra G. Raghothama
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Indiana
USA. 6. Sodium. Huazhong Shi
Ray A. Bressan
Paul M. Hasegawa and Jian-Kang Zhu
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Indiana
USA. 7. Mapping links between the genome and ionome in plants. Brett Lahner and David E. Salt
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architechture
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Indiana
USA. 8. Transcriptional profiling of membrane transporters. Frans J.M. Maathuis
Department of Biology
University of York
UK and Anna Amtmann
Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biophysics
University of Glasgow
UK. 9. Exploring natural genetic variation to improve plant nutrient content. Dick Vreugdenhil
Mark G.M. Aarts and Maarten Koornneef
Laboratory of Genetics
Wageningen University
The Netherlands. 10. Mapping nutritional traits in crop plants. Matthias Wissuwa
International Rice Research Institute
Manila
The Philippines. 11. Sustainable crop nutrition: constraints and opportunities. R. Ford Denison and E. Toby Kiers
Agronomy & Range Science Department
University of California
Davis
USA. 12. Methods to improve the crop-delivery of minerals to humans and livestock. Michael A. Grusak
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
Texas
USA and Ismail Cakmak
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Sabanci University
Istanbul
Turkey. 13. Using plants to manage sites contaminated with heavy metals. Steven N. Whiting
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Australia
Roger D. Reeves
Institute of Fundamental Sciences
Massey University
Palmerston North
New Zealand
David Richards
Rio Tinto Plc
London
UK et al.. References. Index