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Format: 1 online resource (xxiv, 550 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-12-823093-2

Note: Front Cover -- Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the editors -- Preface -- 1 Entangling the interaction between essential and nonessential nutrients: implications for global food security -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Potassium/sodium interaction -- 1.3 Zinc/cadmium interaction -- 1.4 Arsenic/nitrogen/phosphorus interaction -- 1.5 Concluding remarks -- References -- 2 The importance of beneficial and essential trace and ultratrace elements in plant nutrition, growth, and stress tolerance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Beneficial and essential elements -- 2.2.1 Aluminum -- 2.2.2 Boron -- 2.2.3 Cobalt -- 2.2.4 Copper -- 2.2.5 Iodine -- 2.2.6 Iron -- 2.2.7 Manganese -- 2.2.8 Molybdenum -- 2.2.9 Nickel -- 2.2.10 Selenium -- 2.2.11 Silicon -- 2.2.12 Zinc -- References -- 3 Crop nitrogen use efficiency for sustainable food security and climate change mitigation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reactive nitrogen, climate change, and agriculture -- 3.3 Understanding nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.4 Agronomic approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.5 Microbial nitrogen fixation and crop nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.6 Plant biological approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.7 Transgenic and genome-editing approaches for improving nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.8 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen acquisition -- 3.9 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen assimilation -- 3.10 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen translocation and remobilization -- 3.11 Manipulation of genes involved in carbon metabolism and its regulation -- 3.12 Manipulation of genes involved in signaling -- 3.13 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security -- 4.1 Introduction. , 4.2 Sulfur compounds in human nutrition and health -- 4.3 Plant sulfate assimilation and methionine synthesis -- 4.4 Control of plant sulfate assimilation -- 4.5 Impact of changing environment on plant sulfur nutrition -- 4.6 Plant sulfur nutrition and food security-open questions -- 4.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Potassium: an emerging signal mediator in plants? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 K+ as a signal in the biological world -- 5.2 K+ as a signal in bacteria -- 5.3 Does a similar mechanism exist in plants? -- 5.4 How is potassium perceived and sensed in plants? -- 5.5 How does K+ sensing take place? -- 5.5.1 Membrane potential as a potent K+ sensor -- 5.5.2 Plasma membrane localized K+ sensors -- 5.5.3 Cytoplasmic K+ sensors: an interplay of cytoplasmic enzymes -- 5.6 Is potassium deficiency a potential stress signal? -- 5.7 K+ as a signal mediator in plants: connecting the dots between K+ deprivation and Ca2+ signaling -- 5.7.1 Can potassium act as a signaling molecule? What have we learned so far? -- 5.7.2 Why is K+ not considered a second messenger? Does it have the potential qualities to qualify as a second messenger? -- 5.8 Conclusion and future perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Exploring the relationship between plant secondary metabolites and macronutrient homeostasis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Macronutrient cycling in soil -- 6.2.1 Nitrogen (N) cycling in soil -- 6.2.2 Phosphorus (P) cycling in soil -- 6.2.3 Potassium (K) cycling in soil -- 6.2.4 Sulfur (S) cycling in soil -- 6.3 Plant-soil interactions: macronutrient sensing, uptake, and regulation -- 6.3.1 Nitrogen sensing and uptake -- 6.3.2 Phosphorus sensing and uptake -- 6.3.3 Potassium sensing and uptake -- 6.3.4 Sulfur sensing and uptake -- 6.3.5 Regulations of macronutrients within the circadian clock. , 6.4 Plant secondary metabolites and their response to soil fertility -- 6.4.1 Classes of plant secondary metabolites -- 6.4.1.1 Phenolics -- 6.4.1.2 Alkaloids -- 6.4.1.3 Saponins -- 6.4.1.4 Terpenes -- 6.4.2 Response of plant secondary metabolites to soil macronutrient fertility -- 6.4.2.1 Response to N fertilization -- 6.4.2.2 Response to P fertilization -- 6.4.2.3 Response to K fertilization -- 6.4.2.4 Response to S fertilization -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Water and nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change: impacts on food security and product quality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Impact of climate change on water resources -- 7.2.1 The effect of water scarcity on agricultural yield and product quality -- 7.2.2 Effect of poor water quality on yield and product quality -- 7.3 Nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change -- 7.3.1 Effects of low nitrogen levels on yield and nutritional quality -- 7.3.2 Effects of high nitrogen levels on the environment, yield, and nutritional quality -- 7.4 Overview on strategies to enhance water use efficiency and N use efficiency and future prospects -- 7.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 Soilless indoor smart agriculture as an emerging enabler technology for food and nutrition security amidst climate change -- 8.1 Climate change and its impact on food and nutrition security -- 8.1.1 Climate change and connection to food and nutrition insecurity -- 8.1.2 Food security scenario and climate change -- 8.1.3 Nutrition security scenario and climate change -- 8.1.4 Climate-smart agriculture and soilless cultivation as an "emerging enabler" technology -- 8.2 Soilless indoor cultivation as climate-smart agriculture -- 8.2.1 Controlled environment agriculture and soilless cultivation technology -- 8.2.2 Different types of soilless cultivation. , 8.2.2.1 Circulating soilless cultivation systems -- 8.2.2.2 Non-circulating systems -- 8.2.2.3 Comparisons between indoor soilless versus soil-based conventional agriculture systems -- 8.3 Soilless systems as an enabling technology for food security -- 8.3.1 Year-round productivity and yield improvement in soilless cultivation systems -- 8.3.2 Improving resource use efficiency-water use efficiency and land surface use efficiency -- 8.3.3 Role of microbiome and biostimulants in improving crop performances in soilless systems -- 8.3.3.1 Root zone microbiome application in soilless systems -- 8.3.3.2 Phyllosphere applications of microbiome -- 8.3.3.3 Endophytic bacteria -- 8.3.3.4 Biostimulant application in soilless systems -- 8.4 Soilless systems as an enabling technology for nutrition security -- 8.4.1 Healthy and fresh produce through soilless systems -- 8.4.2 Improving nutrient use efficiency via biofortification of micronutrients -- 8.4.3 Enriching antioxidants, vitamins, and essential nutrients through soilless systems -- 8.5 Role of precision agriculture and automation for enabling food and nutrition security -- 8.5.1 Precision agriculture and automation in context with soilless cultivation system -- 8.5.2 Automation and IoT tools to manage soilless cultivation systems -- 8.5.3 Reducing labor costs and contactless farming using modern tools -- 8.6 Challenges and future perspectives -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Plant ionomics: toward high-throughput nutrient profiling -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Concept of ionomics -- 9.3 Important events in ionomics -- 9.4 Spectrum of mineral elements -- 9.5 Mineral acquisition, distribution, and storage in plants -- 9.6 Mineral interaction in plants -- 9.7 Element-element interactions -- 9.8 Element-gene interactions -- 9.9 Element-environment interactions. , 9.10 Interaction with mineral chelating or sequestering molecules -- 9.11 Bioinformatics involved in ionomics -- 9.12 Different technology used in plant element profiling -- 9.13 Techniques based on electronic properties of elements -- 9.13.1 Atomic absorption spectrometry -- 9.13.2 Optical emission spectroscopy -- 9.13.3 Ion beam analysis -- 9.13.4 X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy -- 9.13.5 Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry -- 9.14 Techniques based on nuclear properties of atoms -- 9.14.1 Neutron activation analysis -- 9.15 Recent advances in plant ionomic techniques -- 9.16 Applications of plant ionomics -- 9.17 Paradigm shift from ionome to gene regulating network -- 9.18 Ionomics in Identifying of QTLs/genes -- 9.19 Functional validation of gene(s) -- 9.20 Ionomics for coping with abiotic stresses -- 9.21 Ionomics for biofortification -- 9.22 Conclusion and future prospects -- References -- Further reading -- 10 Cobalt and molybdenum: deficiency, toxicity, and nutritional role in plant growth and development -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Toxicity and deficiency of cobalt and molybdenum in plants -- 10.2.1 Cobalt toxicity and deficiency -- 10.2.2 Molybdenum toxicity and deficiency -- 10.3 Role in plant growth and development -- 10.3.1 Role of cobalt -- 10.3.2 Role of molybdenum -- 10.4 Conclusion and future perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 Interplay between sodium and chloride decides the plant's fate under salt and drought stress conditions -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Relative impact of dominant ions on plants under ionic stress -- 11.3 Impact of sodium and other associated cations -- 11.3.1 Sodium: its role as a nutrient and an osmoticum in plants under stress -- 11.3.2 Na+ uptake and transport under stress -- 11.3.3 Impact of Na+ on K+ and its regulation for maintaining cellular homeostasis. , 11.3.4 Interaction between Na+ and Ca2+.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9780128229163

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 0128229160

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xxiv, 550 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-12-823093-2

Note: Front Cover -- Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the editors -- Preface -- 1 Entangling the interaction between essential and nonessential nutrients: implications for global food security -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Potassium/sodium interaction -- 1.3 Zinc/cadmium interaction -- 1.4 Arsenic/nitrogen/phosphorus interaction -- 1.5 Concluding remarks -- References -- 2 The importance of beneficial and essential trace and ultratrace elements in plant nutrition, growth, and stress tolerance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Beneficial and essential elements -- 2.2.1 Aluminum -- 2.2.2 Boron -- 2.2.3 Cobalt -- 2.2.4 Copper -- 2.2.5 Iodine -- 2.2.6 Iron -- 2.2.7 Manganese -- 2.2.8 Molybdenum -- 2.2.9 Nickel -- 2.2.10 Selenium -- 2.2.11 Silicon -- 2.2.12 Zinc -- References -- 3 Crop nitrogen use efficiency for sustainable food security and climate change mitigation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reactive nitrogen, climate change, and agriculture -- 3.3 Understanding nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.4 Agronomic approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.5 Microbial nitrogen fixation and crop nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.6 Plant biological approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.7 Transgenic and genome-editing approaches for improving nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.8 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen acquisition -- 3.9 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen assimilation -- 3.10 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen translocation and remobilization -- 3.11 Manipulation of genes involved in carbon metabolism and its regulation -- 3.12 Manipulation of genes involved in signaling -- 3.13 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security -- 4.1 Introduction. , 4.2 Sulfur compounds in human nutrition and health -- 4.3 Plant sulfate assimilation and methionine synthesis -- 4.4 Control of plant sulfate assimilation -- 4.5 Impact of changing environment on plant sulfur nutrition -- 4.6 Plant sulfur nutrition and food security-open questions -- 4.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Potassium: an emerging signal mediator in plants? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 K+ as a signal in the biological world -- 5.2 K+ as a signal in bacteria -- 5.3 Does a similar mechanism exist in plants? -- 5.4 How is potassium perceived and sensed in plants? -- 5.5 How does K+ sensing take place? -- 5.5.1 Membrane potential as a potent K+ sensor -- 5.5.2 Plasma membrane localized K+ sensors -- 5.5.3 Cytoplasmic K+ sensors: an interplay of cytoplasmic enzymes -- 5.6 Is potassium deficiency a potential stress signal? -- 5.7 K+ as a signal mediator in plants: connecting the dots between K+ deprivation and Ca2+ signaling -- 5.7.1 Can potassium act as a signaling molecule? What have we learned so far? -- 5.7.2 Why is K+ not considered a second messenger? Does it have the potential qualities to qualify as a second messenger? -- 5.8 Conclusion and future perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Exploring the relationship between plant secondary metabolites and macronutrient homeostasis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Macronutrient cycling in soil -- 6.2.1 Nitrogen (N) cycling in soil -- 6.2.2 Phosphorus (P) cycling in soil -- 6.2.3 Potassium (K) cycling in soil -- 6.2.4 Sulfur (S) cycling in soil -- 6.3 Plant-soil interactions: macronutrient sensing, uptake, and regulation -- 6.3.1 Nitrogen sensing and uptake -- 6.3.2 Phosphorus sensing and uptake -- 6.3.3 Potassium sensing and uptake -- 6.3.4 Sulfur sensing and uptake -- 6.3.5 Regulations of macronutrients within the circadian clock. , 6.4 Plant secondary metabolites and their response to soil fertility -- 6.4.1 Classes of plant secondary metabolites -- 6.4.1.1 Phenolics -- 6.4.1.2 Alkaloids -- 6.4.1.3 Saponins -- 6.4.1.4 Terpenes -- 6.4.2 Response of plant secondary metabolites to soil macronutrient fertility -- 6.4.2.1 Response to N fertilization -- 6.4.2.2 Response to P fertilization -- 6.4.2.3 Response to K fertilization -- 6.4.2.4 Response to S fertilization -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Water and nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change: impacts on food security and product quality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Impact of climate change on water resources -- 7.2.1 The effect of water scarcity on agricultural yield and product quality -- 7.2.2 Effect of poor water quality on yield and product quality -- 7.3 Nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change -- 7.3.1 Effects of low nitrogen levels on yield and nutritional quality -- 7.3.2 Effects of high nitrogen levels on the environment, yield, and nutritional quality -- 7.4 Overview on strategies to enhance water use efficiency and N use efficiency and future prospects -- 7.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 Soilless indoor smart agriculture as an emerging enabler technology for food and nutrition security amidst climate change -- 8.1 Climate change and its impact on food and nutrition security -- 8.1.1 Climate change and connection to food and nutrition insecurity -- 8.1.2 Food security scenario and climate change -- 8.1.3 Nutrition security scenario and climate change -- 8.1.4 Climate-smart agriculture and soilless cultivation as an "emerging enabler" technology -- 8.2 Soilless indoor cultivation as climate-smart agriculture -- 8.2.1 Controlled environment agriculture and soilless cultivation technology -- 8.2.2 Different types of soilless cultivation. , 8.2.2.1 Circulating soilless cultivation systems -- 8.2.2.2 Non-circulating systems -- 8.2.2.3 Comparisons between indoor soilless versus soil-based conventional agriculture systems -- 8.3 Soilless systems as an enabling technology for food security -- 8.3.1 Year-round productivity and yield improvement in soilless cultivation systems -- 8.3.2 Improving resource use efficiency-water use efficiency and land surface use efficiency -- 8.3.3 Role of microbiome and biostimulants in improving crop performances in soilless systems -- 8.3.3.1 Root zone microbiome application in soilless systems -- 8.3.3.2 Phyllosphere applications of microbiome -- 8.3.3.3 Endophytic bacteria -- 8.3.3.4 Biostimulant application in soilless systems -- 8.4 Soilless systems as an enabling technology for nutrition security -- 8.4.1 Healthy and fresh produce through soilless systems -- 8.4.2 Improving nutrient use efficiency via biofortification of micronutrients -- 8.4.3 Enriching antioxidants, vitamins, and essential nutrients through soilless systems -- 8.5 Role of precision agriculture and automation for enabling food and nutrition security -- 8.5.1 Precision agriculture and automation in context with soilless cultivation system -- 8.5.2 Automation and IoT tools to manage soilless cultivation systems -- 8.5.3 Reducing labor costs and contactless farming using modern tools -- 8.6 Challenges and future perspectives -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Plant ionomics: toward high-throughput nutrient profiling -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Concept of ionomics -- 9.3 Important events in ionomics -- 9.4 Spectrum of mineral elements -- 9.5 Mineral acquisition, distribution, and storage in plants -- 9.6 Mineral interaction in plants -- 9.7 Element-element interactions -- 9.8 Element-gene interactions -- 9.9 Element-environment interactions. , 9.10 Interaction with mineral chelating or sequestering molecules -- 9.11 Bioinformatics involved in ionomics -- 9.12 Different technology used in plant element profiling -- 9.13 Techniques based on electronic properties of elements -- 9.13.1 Atomic absorption spectrometry -- 9.13.2 Optical emission spectroscopy -- 9.13.3 Ion beam analysis -- 9.13.4 X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy -- 9.13.5 Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry -- 9.14 Techniques based on nuclear properties of atoms -- 9.14.1 Neutron activation analysis -- 9.15 Recent advances in plant ionomic techniques -- 9.16 Applications of plant ionomics -- 9.17 Paradigm shift from ionome to gene regulating network -- 9.18 Ionomics in Identifying of QTLs/genes -- 9.19 Functional validation of gene(s) -- 9.20 Ionomics for coping with abiotic stresses -- 9.21 Ionomics for biofortification -- 9.22 Conclusion and future prospects -- References -- Further reading -- 10 Cobalt and molybdenum: deficiency, toxicity, and nutritional role in plant growth and development -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Toxicity and deficiency of cobalt and molybdenum in plants -- 10.2.1 Cobalt toxicity and deficiency -- 10.2.2 Molybdenum toxicity and deficiency -- 10.3 Role in plant growth and development -- 10.3.1 Role of cobalt -- 10.3.2 Role of molybdenum -- 10.4 Conclusion and future perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 Interplay between sodium and chloride decides the plant's fate under salt and drought stress conditions -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Relative impact of dominant ions on plants under ionic stress -- 11.3 Impact of sodium and other associated cations -- 11.3.1 Sodium: its role as a nutrient and an osmoticum in plants under stress -- 11.3.2 Na+ uptake and transport under stress -- 11.3.3 Impact of Na+ on K+ and its regulation for maintaining cellular homeostasis. , 11.3.4 Interaction between Na+ and Ca2+.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9780128229163

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 0128229160

Language: English

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (xxiv, 550 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 0-12-823093-2

Note: Front Cover -- Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the editors -- Preface -- 1 Entangling the interaction between essential and nonessential nutrients: implications for global food security -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Potassium/sodium interaction -- 1.3 Zinc/cadmium interaction -- 1.4 Arsenic/nitrogen/phosphorus interaction -- 1.5 Concluding remarks -- References -- 2 The importance of beneficial and essential trace and ultratrace elements in plant nutrition, growth, and stress tolerance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Beneficial and essential elements -- 2.2.1 Aluminum -- 2.2.2 Boron -- 2.2.3 Cobalt -- 2.2.4 Copper -- 2.2.5 Iodine -- 2.2.6 Iron -- 2.2.7 Manganese -- 2.2.8 Molybdenum -- 2.2.9 Nickel -- 2.2.10 Selenium -- 2.2.11 Silicon -- 2.2.12 Zinc -- References -- 3 Crop nitrogen use efficiency for sustainable food security and climate change mitigation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reactive nitrogen, climate change, and agriculture -- 3.3 Understanding nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.4 Agronomic approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.5 Microbial nitrogen fixation and crop nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.6 Plant biological approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.7 Transgenic and genome-editing approaches for improving nitrogen use efficiency -- 3.8 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen acquisition -- 3.9 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen assimilation -- 3.10 Manipulation of genes involved in nitrogen translocation and remobilization -- 3.11 Manipulation of genes involved in carbon metabolism and its regulation -- 3.12 Manipulation of genes involved in signaling -- 3.13 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security -- 4.1 Introduction. , 4.2 Sulfur compounds in human nutrition and health -- 4.3 Plant sulfate assimilation and methionine synthesis -- 4.4 Control of plant sulfate assimilation -- 4.5 Impact of changing environment on plant sulfur nutrition -- 4.6 Plant sulfur nutrition and food security-open questions -- 4.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Potassium: an emerging signal mediator in plants? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 K+ as a signal in the biological world -- 5.2 K+ as a signal in bacteria -- 5.3 Does a similar mechanism exist in plants? -- 5.4 How is potassium perceived and sensed in plants? -- 5.5 How does K+ sensing take place? -- 5.5.1 Membrane potential as a potent K+ sensor -- 5.5.2 Plasma membrane localized K+ sensors -- 5.5.3 Cytoplasmic K+ sensors: an interplay of cytoplasmic enzymes -- 5.6 Is potassium deficiency a potential stress signal? -- 5.7 K+ as a signal mediator in plants: connecting the dots between K+ deprivation and Ca2+ signaling -- 5.7.1 Can potassium act as a signaling molecule? What have we learned so far? -- 5.7.2 Why is K+ not considered a second messenger? Does it have the potential qualities to qualify as a second messenger? -- 5.8 Conclusion and future perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Exploring the relationship between plant secondary metabolites and macronutrient homeostasis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Macronutrient cycling in soil -- 6.2.1 Nitrogen (N) cycling in soil -- 6.2.2 Phosphorus (P) cycling in soil -- 6.2.3 Potassium (K) cycling in soil -- 6.2.4 Sulfur (S) cycling in soil -- 6.3 Plant-soil interactions: macronutrient sensing, uptake, and regulation -- 6.3.1 Nitrogen sensing and uptake -- 6.3.2 Phosphorus sensing and uptake -- 6.3.3 Potassium sensing and uptake -- 6.3.4 Sulfur sensing and uptake -- 6.3.5 Regulations of macronutrients within the circadian clock. , 6.4 Plant secondary metabolites and their response to soil fertility -- 6.4.1 Classes of plant secondary metabolites -- 6.4.1.1 Phenolics -- 6.4.1.2 Alkaloids -- 6.4.1.3 Saponins -- 6.4.1.4 Terpenes -- 6.4.2 Response of plant secondary metabolites to soil macronutrient fertility -- 6.4.2.1 Response to N fertilization -- 6.4.2.2 Response to P fertilization -- 6.4.2.3 Response to K fertilization -- 6.4.2.4 Response to S fertilization -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Water and nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change: impacts on food security and product quality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Impact of climate change on water resources -- 7.2.1 The effect of water scarcity on agricultural yield and product quality -- 7.2.2 Effect of poor water quality on yield and product quality -- 7.3 Nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change -- 7.3.1 Effects of low nitrogen levels on yield and nutritional quality -- 7.3.2 Effects of high nitrogen levels on the environment, yield, and nutritional quality -- 7.4 Overview on strategies to enhance water use efficiency and N use efficiency and future prospects -- 7.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 Soilless indoor smart agriculture as an emerging enabler technology for food and nutrition security amidst climate change -- 8.1 Climate change and its impact on food and nutrition security -- 8.1.1 Climate change and connection to food and nutrition insecurity -- 8.1.2 Food security scenario and climate change -- 8.1.3 Nutrition security scenario and climate change -- 8.1.4 Climate-smart agriculture and soilless cultivation as an "emerging enabler" technology -- 8.2 Soilless indoor cultivation as climate-smart agriculture -- 8.2.1 Controlled environment agriculture and soilless cultivation technology -- 8.2.2 Different types of soilless cultivation. , 8.2.2.1 Circulating soilless cultivation systems -- 8.2.2.2 Non-circulating systems -- 8.2.2.3 Comparisons between indoor soilless versus soil-based conventional agriculture systems -- 8.3 Soilless systems as an enabling technology for food security -- 8.3.1 Year-round productivity and yield improvement in soilless cultivation systems -- 8.3.2 Improving resource use efficiency-water use efficiency and land surface use efficiency -- 8.3.3 Role of microbiome and biostimulants in improving crop performances in soilless systems -- 8.3.3.1 Root zone microbiome application in soilless systems -- 8.3.3.2 Phyllosphere applications of microbiome -- 8.3.3.3 Endophytic bacteria -- 8.3.3.4 Biostimulant application in soilless systems -- 8.4 Soilless systems as an enabling technology for nutrition security -- 8.4.1 Healthy and fresh produce through soilless systems -- 8.4.2 Improving nutrient use efficiency via biofortification of micronutrients -- 8.4.3 Enriching antioxidants, vitamins, and essential nutrients through soilless systems -- 8.5 Role of precision agriculture and automation for enabling food and nutrition security -- 8.5.1 Precision agriculture and automation in context with soilless cultivation system -- 8.5.2 Automation and IoT tools to manage soilless cultivation systems -- 8.5.3 Reducing labor costs and contactless farming using modern tools -- 8.6 Challenges and future perspectives -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Plant ionomics: toward high-throughput nutrient profiling -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Concept of ionomics -- 9.3 Important events in ionomics -- 9.4 Spectrum of mineral elements -- 9.5 Mineral acquisition, distribution, and storage in plants -- 9.6 Mineral interaction in plants -- 9.7 Element-element interactions -- 9.8 Element-gene interactions -- 9.9 Element-environment interactions. , 9.10 Interaction with mineral chelating or sequestering molecules -- 9.11 Bioinformatics involved in ionomics -- 9.12 Different technology used in plant element profiling -- 9.13 Techniques based on electronic properties of elements -- 9.13.1 Atomic absorption spectrometry -- 9.13.2 Optical emission spectroscopy -- 9.13.3 Ion beam analysis -- 9.13.4 X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy -- 9.13.5 Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry -- 9.14 Techniques based on nuclear properties of atoms -- 9.14.1 Neutron activation analysis -- 9.15 Recent advances in plant ionomic techniques -- 9.16 Applications of plant ionomics -- 9.17 Paradigm shift from ionome to gene regulating network -- 9.18 Ionomics in Identifying of QTLs/genes -- 9.19 Functional validation of gene(s) -- 9.20 Ionomics for coping with abiotic stresses -- 9.21 Ionomics for biofortification -- 9.22 Conclusion and future prospects -- References -- Further reading -- 10 Cobalt and molybdenum: deficiency, toxicity, and nutritional role in plant growth and development -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Toxicity and deficiency of cobalt and molybdenum in plants -- 10.2.1 Cobalt toxicity and deficiency -- 10.2.2 Molybdenum toxicity and deficiency -- 10.3 Role in plant growth and development -- 10.3.1 Role of cobalt -- 10.3.2 Role of molybdenum -- 10.4 Conclusion and future perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 Interplay between sodium and chloride decides the plant's fate under salt and drought stress conditions -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Relative impact of dominant ions on plants under ionic stress -- 11.3 Impact of sodium and other associated cations -- 11.3.1 Sodium: its role as a nutrient and an osmoticum in plants under stress -- 11.3.2 Na+ uptake and transport under stress -- 11.3.3 Impact of Na+ on K+ and its regulation for maintaining cellular homeostasis. , 11.3.4 Interaction between Na+ and Ca2+.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9780128229163

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 0128229160

Language: English