Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants

BENEFICIAL CHEMICAL ELEMENTS OF PLANTSUnderstand beneficial elements and their role in the future of botany and agricultureBeneficial elements are those which, while not essential to plant life, can provide stimulation and enhance plant growth. Properly harnessed, these elements can bolster plant growth in the face of environmental conditions--including drought, nutrient deficiency, and excessive soil salinity--and biotic stresses like pathogens and animal activity. As climate change and population growth pose increasingly serious challenges to agriculture and essential plant production, it has never been more important to unleash the potential of beneficial elements.Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants is an essential resource for researchers and industry specialists looking to enhance their understanding of these elements and the range and variety of their enhancements to plant growth. Written by leading scholars in the field of plant stress tolerance and nutrient enrichment, it discusses not only the rich possibilities of beneficial elements but their mechanisms of action at both biochemical and molecular levels. It details the precise potential roles played by each major beneficial element and surveys a range of elemental responses to specific environmental conditions and plant stresses.Beneficial Chemical Elements of Plants readers will also find:* Chapters covering beneficial elements including aluminum, cobalt, sodium, selenium, and silicon* Discussion of application methods and typical plant responses* Treatment of beneficial elements in a wider environmental context* Beneficial element applications to the field of sustainable agricultureBeneficial Chemical Elements of Plants is a fundamental starting point for researchers and students in the fields of plant physiology, crop science, agriculture, and botany, as well as for professionals in the biotechnology and agricultural industries.

1: Beneficial elements in plant life under changing environmentMisbah Naz, Muhammad Ammar Raza, Adnan Bodhla, Sarah Bouzroud, Muhammad Imran Ghani, Muhammad Riaz, Tariq Shah, Akmal Zubair, Imran Bodlah, Xiaorong Fan2: Role of beneficial elements in epigenetic regulation of plants in response to abiotic stress factorsMuhittin Kulak, Adnan Aydin3: Beneficial elements and status of ROS and RNS in plants: current evidences and future prospectsBiswajita Pradhan, Rabindra Nayak, Srimanta Patra, Chhandashree Behera, Soumya Ranjan Dash and Mrutyunjay Jena4: Biostimulant effects and concentration patterns of beneficial elements in plantsLibia I. Trejo-Téllez, Libia F. Gómez-Trejo and Fernando C. Gómez-Merino5: Targeted effects of beneficial elements in plant photosynthetic processCostanza Ceccanti, Ermes Lo Piccolo, Lucia Guidi, Marco Landi6: Aluminium Stress in Plants: Consequences and Mitigation MechanismsAkbar Hossain, Sagar Maitra, Sukamal Sarker, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Zahoor Ahmad, Reza Mohammad Emon, Hindu Vemuri, Md. Abdul Malek, M. Ashraful Alam, Md. Atikur Rahman, Md. Jahangir Alam, Nasrin Jahan, Preetha Bhadra, Debjyoti Moulik, Saikat Saha, Milan Skalicky, Marian Brestic7: Mechanisms of cobalt uptake, transport and beneficial aspects in plantsZaid Ulhassan, Aamir Mehmood Shah, Ali Raza Khan, Wardah Azhar, Yasir Hamid, Weijun Zhou8: Cobalt in Plant Life: Responses and Deficiency SymptomsXiu Hu, Xiangying Wei, Jie Ling, and Jianjun Chen9: Silicon uptake, transport, and accumulation in plantsShivani Sharma, Muntazir Mushtaq, Sreeja Sudhakaran, Vandana Thakral, Gaurav Raturi, Ruchi Bansal, Virender Kumar, Sanskriti Vats, S M Shivaraj, Rupesh Deshmukh10: Silicon in Soil, Plant, and EnvironmentMujahid Ali, Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Asad Jamil, Muhammad Ashar Ayub11: Silicon-Mediated Alleviation of Heavy Metal Stress in PlantsSana Rana, Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Ashar Ayub12: How Does Sodium Content in Growing Media Affect the Chemical Content of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants? : Two Sides of the CoinAhmet Metin Kumlay, Muhittin Kulak, Mehmet Zeki Kocak, Ferdi Celikcan, and Mehmet Hakki Alma13: Sodium and abiotic stress tolerance in plantsMisbah Naz, Muhammad Imran Ghani, Muhammad Jawaad Atif , Muhammad Ammar Raza, Sarah Bouzroud, Muhammad Rahil Afzal, Muhammad Riaz, Maratab Ali, Muhammad Tariq, Xiaorong Fan14: Selenium species in plant life: Uptake, Transport, Metabolism and BiochemistryZaid Ulhassan, Ali Raza Khan, Wardah Azhar, Yasir Hamid, Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Weijun Zhou15: Lanthanides as beneficial elements for plantsFernando C. Gómez-Merino, Libia F. Gómez-Trejo, Rubén Ruvalcaba-Ramírez and Libia I. Trejo-Téllez