Overview of the Acquisition and Utilization of Boron, Chlorine, Copper, Manganese, Molybdenum, and Nickel by Plants and Prospects for Improvement of Micronutrient Use Efficiency

The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 377-428

  Brown, Patrick H ^a   Bassil, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior of copper in soils poorly understood, copper deficiency not easily predicted from soil type; Boron uptake, passively mediated at odds, with other observed differences in uptake; Boron, chlorine, manganese, nickel acquisition and utilization, by plants; Boron, in soils and plants occurrence of global deficiencies; Crops, improved micronutrient use efficiency plant, and environmental processes; Inter and intracellular manganese transport and homeostasis; Inter and intracellular copper transport and homeostasis; Manipulating plant nickel uptake cell distribution and remobilization; Optimized micronutrient status maximal productivity, optimal crop quality; Within plant transport long distance transport of boron, and transpiration

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EID: 84886148544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470960707.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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