Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants

Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Sangeeta Pandey, Durgesh K. Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Shivesh Sharma, Devendra Kumar Chauhan, Sangeeta Pandey, Durgesh K. Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Shivesh Sharma, Devendra Kumar Chauhan

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781119688808
• eBook ISBN: 9781119688839
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

BENEFICIAL CHEMICAL ELEMENTS OF PLANTS

Understand beneficial elements and their role in the future of botany and agriculture

Beneficial elements are those which, while not essential to plant life, can provide stimulation and enhance plant growth. Properly harnessed, these elements can bolster plant growth in the face of environmental conditions—including drought, nutrient deficiency, and excessive soil salinity—and biotic stresses like pathogens and animal activity. As climate change and population growth pose increasingly serious challenges to agriculture and essential plant production, it has never been more important to unleash the potential of beneficial elements.

Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants is an essential resource for researchers and industry specialists looking to enhance their understanding of these elements and the range and variety of their enhancements to plant growth. Written by leading scholars in the field of plant stress tolerance and nutrient enrichment, it discusses not only the rich possibilities of beneficial elements but their mechanisms of action at both biochemical and molecular levels. It details the precise potential roles played by each major beneficial element and surveys a range of elemental responses to specific environmental conditions and plant stresses.

Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants readers will also find:

• Chapters covering beneficial elements including aluminum, cobalt, sodium, selenium, and silicon
• Discussion of application methods and typical plant responses
• Treatment of beneficial elements in a wider environmental context
• Beneficial element applications to the field of sustainable agriculture

Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants is a fundamental starting point for researchers and students in the fields of plant physiology, crop science, agriculture, and botany, as well as for professionals in the biotechnology and agricultural industries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1 Beneficial Elements in Plant Life Under A Changing Environment
• 2 Role of Beneficial Elements in Epigenetic Regulation of Plants in Response to Abiotic Stress Factors
• 3 Beneficial Elements and Status of ROS and RNS in Plants
• 4 Biostimulant Effects and Concentration Patterns of Beneficial Elements in Plants
• 5 Targeted Effects of Beneficial Elements in Plant Photosynthetic Process
• 6 Aluminium Stress in Plants
• 7 Mechanisms of Cobalt Uptake, Transport, and Beneficial Aspects in Plants
• 8 Cobalt in Plant Life: Responses and Deficiency Symptoms
• 9 Silicon Uptake, Transport, and Accumulation in Plants
• 10 Silicon in Soil, Plants, and Environment
• 11 Silicon‐Mediated Alleviation of Heavy Metal Stress in Plants
• 12 How Does Sodium Content in Growing Media Affect the Chemical Content of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants? Two Sides of the Coin
• 13 Sodium and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
• 14 Selenium Species in Plant Life: Uptake, Transport, Metabolism, and Biochemistry
• 15 Lanthanides as Beneficial Elements for Plants
• Index
• End User License Agreement