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Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants

By: Joseph C Polacco and Christopher D Todd
464 pages
Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants
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  • Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants ISBN: 9780813816494 Hardback Mar 2011 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Acquisition covers how plants compete for nitrogen in complex ecological communities and the associations plants recruit with other organisms, ranging from soil microbes to arthropods. The book is divided into four sections, each addressing an important set of relationships of plants with the environment and how this impacts the plant's ability to compete successfully for nitrogen, often the most growth-limiting nutrient. Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Acquisition provides thorough coverage of this important topic, and is a vitally important resource for plant scientists, agronomists, and ecologists.

Contents

A. THE NITROGEN CYCLE. CHAPTER 1 The new global nitrogen cycle. B. PLANT-SOIL MICROBE INTERACTIONS. CHAPTER 2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium -Evolutionary origins and divergence of strategies in recruiting soil microbes. CHATER 3 Arbuscular mycorrhizas and N acquisition by plants. CHAPTER 4 Ectomycorrhiza and nitrogen provision to the host tree. CHAPTER 5 Proteins in the rhizosphere: another example of plant-microbe exchange. CHAPTER 6 Actinorhizal symbioses. CHAPTER 7 Two in the Far North: The Alder-Frankia Symbiosis, with an Alaskan Case Study. CHAPTER 8 The path of Rhizobia: from a free-living soil bacterium to root nodulation. CHAPTER 9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to Recover Seriously Degraded Soils. C. EPI- AND ENDO-PHYTIC MICROBES. CHAPTER 10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes. CHAPTER 11 Epi and Endo-phytic microbes: N2-fixing endophytes of grasses and cereals. D. ARTHROPODS. CHAPTER 12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy of Plants. CHAPTER 13 Plant Defense Proteins that inhibit Insect Peptidases. CHAPTER 14 Nutrient acquisition and concentration by ant symbionts: the incidence and importance of biological interactions to plant nutrition. E. ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALLING IN N ACQUISITION. CHAPTER 15 The functions of flavonoids in legume-rhizobia interactions. CHAPTER 16 Plant hormones and initiation of legume nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhization. CHAPTER 17 Nitric Oxide as a signal molecule in intra- and extra-cellular bacteria-plant interactions.

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Biography

Joe C. Polacco is Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biophysics and Center of Biotechnology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Christopher D. Todd is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan.

By: Joseph C Polacco and Christopher D Todd
464 pages
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