Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants Concepts and Approaches

Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches is the ninth volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series. It presents a broad overview of topics related to improvement of nutrient use efficiency of crops. Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) is a measure of how well plants use the available mineral...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Hawkesford, Malcolm J. (-), Kopriva, Stanislav, De Kok, Luit J.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2014.
Colección:Plant Ecophysiology ; 10.
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Sumario:Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches is the ninth volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series. It presents a broad overview of topics related to improvement of nutrient use efficiency of crops. Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) is a measure of how well plants use the available mineral nutrients. It can be defined as yield (biomass) per unit input (fertilizer, nutrient content). NUE is a complex trait: it depends on the ability to take up the nutrients from the soil, but also on transport, storage, mobilization, usage within the plant, and even on the environment. NUE is of particular interest as a major target for crop improvement. Improvement of NUE is an essential pre-requisite for expansion of crop production into marginal lands with low nutrient availability but also a way to reduce use of inorganic fertilizer.
Descripción Física:X, 279 p., 41 il., 27 il. col
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783319106359