Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants [Hardcover]

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 plants 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.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 RhizobiumEvolutionary Origins and Divergence of Strategies in Recruiting Soil Microbes (Gerben Bijl, St?phane De Mita, and Ren? 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-Pe?a 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 (PlS+