Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change

Vinay Kumar, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Penna Suprasanna

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780128229163
• eBook ISBN: 9780128230930
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

Plant nutrients are the vital elements essential for plant growth and survival, with key roles in adapting to challenging environments. Each nutrient, whether required in relatively large (macronutrients) or minute concentrations (micronutrients) plays a unique role in plant life cycle. Both the insufficient and surplus concentrations of these nutrients may render negative impacts on plant growth and development and therefore their homeostasis is considered critical for optimal plant growth and yield. Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change comprehensively reviews all critical plant nutrients. Chapters include topics such as: biological roles, uptake and transport of vital nutrients in plants; an in-depth review of the roles of potassium, calcium, magnesium and trace element; molecular breeding approaches for enhanced plant nutrients; and exploring the rhizosphere microbiome for enhance nutrient availability. Written by leading experts in the field of plant biology, this is an essential read for researchers and scientists interested in plant science, agronomy, food security and environmental science. - A comprehensive review of all the important plant nutrients - Discusses plant homeostasis under natural and changing environments - Introduces novel approaches and state-of-the-art tool for enhancing the levels of targeted nutrients within plant tissues

Table of contents

• Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change
• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Entangling the interaction between essential and nonessential nutrients: implications for global food security
• Chapter 2 The importance of beneficial and essential trace and ultratrace elements in plant nutrition, growth, and stress tolerance
• Chapter 3 Crop nitrogen use efficiency for sustainable food security and climate change mitigation
• Chapter 4 Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security
• Chapter 5 Potassium: an emerging signal mediator in plants?
• Chapter 6 Exploring the relationship between plant secondary metabolites and macronutrient homeostasis
• Chapter 7 Water and nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change: impacts on food security and product quality
• Chapter 8 Soilless indoor smart agriculture as an emerging enabler technology for food and nutrition security amidst climate change
• Chapter 9 Plant ionomics: toward high-throughput nutrient profiling
• Chapter 10 Cobalt and molybdenum: deficiency, toxicity, and nutritional role in plant growth and development
• Chapter 11 Interplay between sodium and chloride decides the plant’s fate under salt and drought stress conditions
• Chapter 12 Drought and nitrogen stress effects and tolerance mechanisms in tomato: a review
• Chapter 13 Arsenic stress and mineral nutrition in plants
• Chapter 14 Recent advances in micronutrient foliar spray for enhancing crop productivity and managing abiotic stress tolerance
• Chapter 15 Biotechnological tools for manipulating nutrient homeostasis in plants
• Chapter 16 Crop biofortification and food security
• Chapter 17 Biotechnological approaches for generating iron-rich crops
• Chapter 18 Use of nanomaterials in plant nutrition
• Chapter 19 Plant beneficial microbes in mitigating the nutrient cycling for sustainable agriculture and food security
• Chapter 20 Nutritional imbalance in plants under rising atmospheric CO2
• Index