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.
İçerik tablosu
Contributors.
Preface.
Section 1 The Nitrogen Cycle.
1 The New Global Nitrogen Cycle (Jan Willem Erisman).
Section 2 Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions.
2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae and
Rhizobium–Evolutionary Origins and Divergence of
Strategies in Recruiting Soil Microbes (Gerben Bijl,
Stéphane De Mita, and René Geurts).
3 Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and N Acquisition by Plants (Luisa
Lanfranco, Mike Guether, and Paola Bonfante).
4 Ectomycorrhiza and Nitrogen Provision to the Host Tree
(Michel Chalot and Claude Plassard).
5 Proteins in the Rhizosphere: Another Example of Plant-Microbe
Exchange (Clelia De-la-Peña and Jorge M. Vivanco).
6 Actinorhizal Symbioses (Katharina Pawlowski).
7 Two in the Far North: The Alder-Frankia Symbiosis, with
an Alaskan Case Study (Mike Anderson).
8 The Path of Rhizobia: From a Free-Living Soil Bacterium to
Root Nodulation (Pedro F. Mateos, Raúl Rivas, Marta
Robledo, Encarna Velázquez, Eustoquio Martínez-Molina,
and David W. Emerich).
9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to Recover
Seriously Degraded Soils (Sérgio Miana de Faria, Alexander
S. Resende, Orivaldo J. Saggin Júnior, and Robert M.
Boddey).
Section 3 Epi- and Endo-Phytic Microbes.
10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes (Mark A.
Holland).
11 N2-Fixing Endophytes of Grasses and Cereals
(Veronica Massena Reis, Jos Vanderleyden, and Stijn
Spaepen).
Section 4 Arthropods.
12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy of
Plants (Leiling Tao and Mark D. Hunter).
13 Plant Defense Proteins That Inhibit Insect Peptidases
(Carlos Peres Silva and Richard Ian Samuels).
14 Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts: The
Incidence and Importance of Biological Interactions to Plant
Nutrition (Cynthia L. Sagers).
Section 5 Environmental Signalling in N Acquisition.
15 The Functions of Flavonoids in Legume-Rhizobia Interactions
(Oliver Yu and Yechun Wang).
16 Plant Hormones and Initiation of Legume Nodulation and
Arbuscular Mycorrhization (Arijit Mukherjee and Jean-Michel
Ané).
17 Nitric Oxide as a Signal Molecule in Intracellular and
Extracellular Bacteria-plant Interactions (Andrés
Arruebarrena Di Palma, Lorenzo Lamattina, and Cecilia M.
Creus).
Index.
Yazar hakkında
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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