Zinc in Soils and Crop Nutrition

The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 335-375

  Sadeghzadeh, Behzad ^a   Rengel, Zed ^b  

^a Dryland Agricultural Research Institute Maragheh   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factors, affecting soil zinc availability for plants; Genetics of zinc efficiency in improving zinc efficiency in crops; Low plant availability of soil zinc critical problems, for crop production; Plant traits, screening plant genotypes for zinc efficiency; Zinc availability in plants zinc concentration in solution; Zinc deficiency prediction, in soil nutrient deficiency in crop; Zinc deficiency, yield losses in areas under crop production; Zinc in soils and crop nutrition; Zinc in soils, into fractions and particle size distribution; Zinc, and root cell membrane transporters of zinc iron premeases (ZIP) family

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869886972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470960707.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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