In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Agriculture is expanding into regions that are affected by salinity. This review considers the
energetic costs of salinity tolerance in crop plants and provides a framework for a …

Water and nitrogen availability limit crop productivity globally more than most other
environmental factors. Plant availability of macronutrients such as nitrate is, to a large extent …

Ecosystem functioning relies heavily on below‐ground processes, which are largely
regulated by plant fine‐roots and their functional traits. However, our knowledge of fine‐root …

Highlights•Many studies on plant nitrogen report only the total amounts of the
element.•Nitrate is a major nitrogen source for higher plants.•Elevated CO 2 inhibits nitrate …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth of green algae Chlorella sp. on
wastewaters sampled from four different points of the treatment process flow of a local …

Put Theory into Practice Scarcity of natural resources, higher costs, higher demand, and
concerns about environmental pollution-under these circumstances, improving food supply …

Languishing for many years in the shadow of plant inorganic nitrogen (N) nutrition research,
studies of organic N uptake have attracted increased attention during the last decade. The …

Mangrove forests dominate the world's tropical and subtropical coastlines. Similar to other
plant communities, nutrient availability is one of the major factors influencing mangrove …

This new edition of a bestseller examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important
limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and …