Editors:
- Multi-disciplinary
- Focus on critical issue of nutrient use efficiency
- Written by students for students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Plant Ecophysiology (KLEC, volume 10)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
Malcolm J. Hawkesford
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Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Stanislav Kopriva
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Laboratory of Plant Physiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Luit J. De Kok
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants
Book Subtitle: Concepts and Approaches
Editors: Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Stanislav Kopriva, Luit J. De Kok
Series Title: Plant Ecophysiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10635-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10634-2Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38217-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10635-9Published: 14 November 2014
Series ISSN: 1572-5561
Series E-ISSN: 2405-4321
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Soil Science & Conservation