Ecological aspects of nitrogen metabolism in plants
First Statement of Responsibility
editors, Joe C. Polacco, Christopher D. Todd.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 436 pages illustrations 26 cm
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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Plants--Effect of nitrogen on
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Plant ecology
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Plants--Metabolism
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Plant-microbe relationships
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Plant-soil relationships
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Nitrogen cycle
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QK
Book number
898
Classification Record Number
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N6E28
2011
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
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"A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., publication."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.