Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives

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Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives Authors: , Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages: 380 Language: English ISBN: 9780878931729 Category:

Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In the thoroughly revised Second Edition of Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives, Epstein and Bloom explain that plant roots “mine” these nutrient elements from their inorganic substrate and introduce them into the realm of living things. The authors trace the subsequent movement of these nutrients into other plant organs, tissues, cells, and organelles, their biochemical assimilation, and their functions in plant physiology and metabolism. Treatment of these processes extends from molecular biology through global biogeochemistry. The text, illustrated in full colour, is accessible both to undergraduate students in plant physiology, agronomy, horticulture and environmental studies and to researchers in these and other plant biological fields.

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Every now and then an undergraduate textbook appears that is both useful to its target audience and a pleasure for more experienced readers. This current revision of Epstein's 1971 classic with the same title is such a book. This new version maintains the first edition's clear and engaging prose and adds Bloom's expertise in plant physiology and biochemistry, as well as extremely elegant and helpful graphics. When my colleagues tell me they are planning to write a textbook, I lend them Epstein and Bloom's volume to show them how it should be done. * Manuel Lerdau, The Quarterly Review of Biology *