DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bf9194/ecological_aspects) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants" to their offering.
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.
Key Topics Covered:
Section 1 The Nitrogen Cycle.
1 The New Global Nitrogen Cycle
Section 2 Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions.
2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae and RhizobiumEvolutionary Origins and Divergence of Strategies in Recruiting Soil Microbes
3 Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and N Acquisition by Plants
4 Ectomycorrhiza and Nitrogen Provision to the Host Tree
5 Proteins in the Rhizosphere: Another Example of Plant-Microbe Exchange
6 Actinorhizal Symbioses
7 Two in the Far North: The Alder-Frankia Symbiosis, with an Alaskan Case Study
8 The Path of Rhizobia: From a Free-Living Soil Bacterium to Root Nodulation
9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to Recover Seriously Degraded Soils Section 3 Epi- and Endo-Phytic Microbes.
10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes
11 N2-Fixing Endophytes of Grasses and Cereals
Section 4 Arthropods.
12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy of Plants
13 Plant Defense Proteins That Inhibit Insect Peptidases
14 Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts: The Incidence and Importance of Biological Interactions to Plant Nutrition
Section 5 Environmental Signalling in N Acquisition.
15 The Functions of Flavonoids in Legume-Rhizobia Interactions
16 Plant Hormones and Initiation of Legume Nodulation and Arbuscular Mycorrhization
17 Nitric Oxide as a Signal Molecule in Intracellular and Extracellular Bacteria-plant Interactions
About the Authors:
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.
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