Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives

PART I: ELEMENTS.- Introduction and History.- The Media of Plant Nutrition.- Inorganic Components of Plants.- PART II: TRANSPORT.- Nutrient Absorption by Plants.- Upward Movement of Water and Nutrients.- Downward Movement of Food and Nutrients.- PART III: METABOLISM AND GROWTH.- Nitrogen and Sulfur: A Tale of Two Nutrients.- Mineral Metabolism.- Nutrition and Growth.- PART IV: HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT.- Physiological Genetics and Molecular Biology.- Ecology and Environmental Stress.- Big Picture: Past, Present, Future.

Emanuel Epstein is Research Professor in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources-Soils and Biogeochemistry at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from the University of California at Berkeley. Among the awards and honors Dr. Epstein has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Senior Fulbright Research Scholarships. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and has served as President
of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interests include: mineral nutrition of plants; ion transport; salt relations of plants; silicon in plant biology; and genetic and ecological aspects of all these topics.

Arnold J. Bloom is Professor in the Department of Vegetable Crops at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Widely published in scientific journals, Dr. Bloom has been a principal contributor (on mineral nutrition) to two editions of Plant Physiology (Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger). His research focus is environmental stress physiology, with an emphasis on the interactions among nutrient
acquisition and photosynthesis, temperature stress in crops, and root perception of the rhizosphere.