عنوان

Ecological aspects of nitrogen metabolism in plants

02BL17360

Ecological aspects of nitrogen metabolism in plants

editors, Joe C. Polacco, Christopher D. Todd.

xi, 436 pages illustrations 26 cm

Plants--Effect of nitrogen on

Plant ecology

Plants--Metabolism

Plant-microbe relationships

Plant-soil relationships

Nitrogen cycle

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General

"A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: A. THE NITROGEN CYCLE. -- CHAPTER 1 The new global nitrogen cycle. -- B. PLANT-SOIL MICROBE INTERACTIONS. -- CHAPTER 2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium --Evolutionary origins and divergence of strategies in recruiting soil microbes. -- CHATER 3 Arbuscular mycorrhizas and N acquisition by plants. -- CHAPTER 4 Ectomycorrhiza and nitrogen provision to the host tree. -- CHAPTER 5 Proteins in the rhizosphere: another example of plant-microbe exchange. -- CHAPTER 6 Actinorhizal symbioses. -- CHAPTER 7 Two in the Far North: The Alder-Frankia Symbiosis, with an Alaskan Case Study. -- CHAPTER 8 The path of Rhizobia: from a free-living soil bacterium to root nodulation. -- CHAPTER 9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to Recover Seriously Degraded Soils. -- C. EPI- AND ENDO-PHYTIC MICROBES. -- CHAPTER 10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes. -- CHAPTER 11 Epi and Endo-phytic microbes: N2-fixing endophytes of grasses and cereals. -- D. ARTHROPODS. -- CHAPTER 12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy of Plants. -- CHAPTER 13 Plant Defense Proteins that inhibit Insect Peptidases. -- CHAPTER 14 Nutrient acquisition and concentration by ant symbionts: the incidence and importance of biological interactions to plant nutrition. -- E. ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALLING IN N ACQUISITION. -- CHAPTER 15 The functions of flavonoids in legume-rhizobia interactions. -- CHAPTER 16 Plant hormones and initiation of legume nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhization. -- CHAPTER 17 Nitric Oxide as a signal molecule in intra- and extra-cellular bacteria-plant interactions.

Polacco, Joseph C.,

Todd, Christopher D