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Marschner's Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants, Fourth Edition presents sections on the uptake and transport of nutrients in plants, root-shoot interactions, the role of mineral nutrition in yield formation, stress physiology, water relations, functions of mineral nutrients and contribution of plant nutrition to nutritional quality and global nutrition security of human populations. Other sections focus on the effects of external and internal factors on root growth, rhizosphere chemistry and biology, and nutrient cycling. In addition, this updated edition includes color figures and a new chapter on the impacts of climate change on soil fertility and crop nutrition.

An understanding of the mineral nutrition of plants is of fundamental importance in both basic and applied plant sciences. The fourth edition of this book retains the aim of the first in presenting the principles of mineral nutrition in the light of current advances.

Marschner's Mineral Nutrition of Plants

PART I. NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY 1. Introduction, definition and classification of nutrients 2. Ion uptake mechanisms of individual cells and roots 3. Long-distance transport in the xylem and phloem 4. Uptake and release of elements by leaves and other aerial plant parts 5. Mineral nutrition, yield and source-sink relationships 6. Functions of macronutrients 7. Function of nutrients: Micronutrients 8. Beneficial elements 9. Nutrition and quality 10. Relationship between nutrition, plant diseases and pests 11. Diagnosis of deficiency and toxicity of nutrients



PART II. PLANT-SOIL RELATIONSHIPS 12. Nutrient availability in soils 13. Effect of internal and external factors on root growth and development 14. Rhizosphere chemistry in relation to plant nutrition 15. Rhizosphere biology 16. Nitrogen fixation 17. Adaptation of plants to adverse chemical soil conditions 18. Crop nutrition and climate change 19. Nutrient and carbon fluxes in terrestrial agro-ecosystems