Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In the thoroughly revised second edition of Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives, Epstein and Bloom explain that plant roots "mine" these nutrient elements from their inorganic substrate and introduce them into the realm of living things. The authors trace the subsequent movement of these nutrients into other plant organs, tissues, cells, and organelles, their biochemical assimilation, and their functions in plant physiology and metabolism. Treatment of these processes extends from molecular biology through global biogeochemistry. The text, illustrated in full color, is accessible both to undergraduate students in plant physiology, agronomy, horticulture, and environmental studies and to researchers in these and other plant biological fields.

Mineral Nutrition of Plants Principles and Perspectives

Science & Math

Epstein, Emanuel

Bloom, Arnold

Biological Sciences

wiley

With this book I mean to fill a need that has long been felt by students and researchers in many areas of the biological, agricultural, and environmental sciences- the need for a textbook on the principles of the mineral nutrition of plants. This subject is of fundamental importance in biology, for it deals wiht the processes by which the living world acquires from the environment the mineral elements essential to life. In addition to this intrinsic interest is the importance of plant nutrition as the science basic to agriculture, forestry, range management, stewardship of the environment, and other activities devoted to the raising of plants and animals and the welfare of human beings. In writing this book I have kept in mind several kinds of readers: undergraduate and graduate students of plant physiology and plant biochemistry; research workers in plant nutrition, plant physiology and ecology; students and researchers in the fields of soil science, agronomy, horticulture, vegetable crops, forestry, range management, environmental sciences and other disciplines, who may have occasion to use such an exposition of the principal facts and current thinking in the field of the mineral nutrition of plants.

Mineral nutrition of plants: principles and perspectives

Wiley Eastern Limited

<p>Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In the thoroughly revised second edition of Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives, Epstein and Bloom explain that plant roots "mine" these nutrient elements from their inorganic substrate and introduce them into the realm of living things. The authors trace the subsequent movement of these nutrients into other plant organs, tissues, cells, and organelles, their biochemical assimilation, and their functions in plant physiology and metabolism. Treatment of these processes extends from molecular biology through global biogeochemistry. The text, illustrated in full color, is accessible both to undergraduate students in plant physiology, agronomy, horticulture, and environmental studies and to researchers in these and other plant biological fields.<br></p>

Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives

Bloom, Arnold J.

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