Perspectives on the Micronutrient Nutrition of Crops 1st Edition

The Title "Perspectives on the Micronutrient Nutrition of Crops 1st Edition" is written by Kalyan Singh. This book was published in the year 2001. The ISBN number 8172332637|9788172332631 is assigned to the Hardback version of this title. This book has total of pp. xvi + 291 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Scientific Publishers. We have about 808 other great books from this publisher. Perspectives on the Micronutrient Nutrition of Crops 1st Edition is currently Available with us.

This Book presents some current perspectives on the micronutrient nutrition of plants. Several introductory chapters give general reviews of important micronutrient concepts including soil reaction mechanisms, micronutrient-macronutrient interactions in plants, micronutrient roles in disease resistance and their roles in regulating certain stress responses in plants. These chapters are followed by more focused chapters that present in-depth reviews of various aspects of specific micronutrient including boron, iron and zinc. Although silicon is not currently known to be an essential micronutrient for higher plants, one chapter reviews the beneficial roles that silicon performs in plants. The subject of Breeding for micronutrient for higher plants, one chapter reviews the beneficial roles that silicon in edible products is reviewed in a further chapter. The final chapter links agriculture, nutrition and human health through a food system perspective concluding that these linkages must be achieved if we are to find sustainable solutions to micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world.

Kalyan Singh Department of Agronomy Institute of Agricultural Sciences Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

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Contributors
1. Mechanism of Micronutrient Reactions in Soils/N.J. Barrow
2. Significance of the Law of the Maximum to Micronutrient nutrition and Maximizing crop production/Arthur Wallace
3. The role of Micronutrient fertilisation in managing plant diseases/Zdenko Rengel
4. Homeostasis and the regulation of Microutrient stress responses in roots/Michael A. Grusak
5. Yield response to born and factors affecting its uptake by crops/Umesh C. Gupta
6. Root response deficiency mechanism of Iron acquisition : Current overview/Kalyan Singh, E. Yoshimura, N.K. Nishizawa and S. Morl
7. Zinc Nutrition in Relation to soil and plant system/A. Hemantaranjan and Kalyan Singh
8. Screening wheat genotypes for high tolerance to zinc deficiency/Ismail Cakmak
9. Role of silicon in plant nutrition/R.B. Clark
10. Improving nutritional quality and agronomic characteristics of crops through plant breeding/C.Y. Huang and R.D. Graham
11. Micronutrients agriculture and nutrition : Linkages for improved Health and well being/R.M. Welch