Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition, organized by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 16–20, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Genetical aspects of mineral nutrition — Progress to date....Pages 3-13
Adaptations and physiological responses of wild plants to nutrient stress....Pages 15-25
Application of ANE value and of shares of individual elements in this value for determining the difference between various plant species....Pages 27-43
Variation in foliar elemental composition in Vaccinium crosses....Pages 45-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Intact-plant screening for tolerance of nutrient-deficiency stress....Pages 55-68
Somatic cell selection of mutants resistant to mineral stress....Pages 69-77
Screening spring wheat for drought tolerance....Pages 79-87
Identifying aluminum tolerance in sorghum genotypes grown on tropical acid soils....Pages 89-98
Influence of field sampling techniques on the Al, Mn, Mg, and Ca nutritional profiles for acid soil tolerant and susceptible sorghum genotypes....Pages 99-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Advances in salt tolerance....Pages 113-125
Intervarietal ionic composition changes in barley under salt stress....Pages 127-137
Boron tolerance in Australian varieties of wheat and barley....Pages 139-151
Australian research on tolerance to toxic manganese....Pages 153-163
Tolerance of plants to ‘heavy metals’....Pages 165-171
Hydrogen and aluminium tolerance....Pages 173-179
Tolerances of Old World bluestems to an acid soil high in exchangeable aluminum....Pages 181-188
Comparisons of maize populations for aluminum tolerance in nutrient solution....Pages 189-199
Inheritance of aluminum tolerance in maize....Pages 201-212
Aluminum tolerance in sorghum....Pages 213-221
Responses of Al-tolerant Dayton and Al-sensitive Kearney barley cultivars to calcium and magnesium during Al stress....Pages 223-237
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Ion segregation in different plant parts within different barley cultivars under salt stress....Pages 239-246
Plant traits for evaluation of responses of sorghum genotypes to aluminum....Pages 247-254
Evaluation of inbred maize lines for aluminum tolerance in nutrient solution....Pages 255-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The application of in vivo techniques in the study of metabolic aspects of ion absorption in crop plants....Pages 269-280
Genotypic variation in biomass production and nitrogen use efficiency in pearl millet [ Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke]....Pages 281-286
Differential phosphorus uptake, distribution, and efficiency by sorghum inbred parents and their hybrids....Pages 287-298
External phosphorus requirements of five tropical grain legumes grown in flowing-solution culture....Pages 299-308
Genetics and physiology of low-phosphorus tolerance in a family derived from two differentially adapted strains of tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)....Pages 309-315
Genotypic differences in the chemical composition of maize plants grown on a calcareous chernozem....Pages 317-321
Genotypic differences in subcellular compartmentation of K + : Implications for protein synthesis, growth and yield....Pages 323-329
Root morphological effects on Mg uptake in five tall fescue lines....Pages 331-341
Influence of different Triticum aestivum L. genomes and chromosomes on the assimilation of the main nutrient elements....Pages 343-351
The accumulation and distribution of sodium in tomato strains differing in potassium efficiency when grown under low-K stress....Pages 353-360
Vegetative adaptation to N stress regimes in two barley cultivars with different N requirement....Pages 361-367
Genetic differences among wild oat lines in potassium uptake and growth in relation to potassium supply....Pages 369-381
Genetic variation in the uptake and utilization of potassium in wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) varieties grown under potassium stress....Pages 383-391
Inheritance of response of sunflower inbreds to a low calcium/magnesium ratio....Pages 393-397
Genetic differences in the ear-leaf nutrient content of inbred lines of corn ( Zea mays L.)....Pages 399-402
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Transfer to wheat of the copper efficiency factor carried on rye chromosome arm 5RL....Pages 405-412
Physiology of genotypic differences in zinc and copper uptake in rice and tomato....Pages 413-423
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Variability and correlation of iron-deficieney symptoms in a sorghum population evaluated in the field and growth chamber....Pages 425-435
Sorghum genotype differences in uptake and use efficiency of mineral elements....Pages 437-443
Resistance to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), in maize, Zea mays L., as affected by soil silica, plant silica, structural carbohydrates, and lignin....Pages 445-456
Differential response of sunflower genotypes to iron deficiency....Pages 457-462
Soybean genetic differences in response to Fe and Mn: Activity of metalloenzymes....Pages 463-470
Ultrastructure of mesophyll cells grown on different levels of selenium of two pea genotypes....Pages 471-476
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Host plant control of symbiotic N 2 fixation in grain legumes....Pages 479-493
Specific relations between some strains of diazotrophs and corn hybrids....Pages 495-510
Nitrogen fixation in soybean as influenced by cultivar and Rhizobium strain....Pages 511-522
Intraspecific variability for VA mycorrhizal symbiosis in cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.)....Pages 523-536
Front Matter....Pages 537-537
Sources of germplasm for research on mineral nutrition....Pages 539-557
Incorporation of phosphorus efficiency from exotic germplasm into agriculturally adapted germplasm of common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.)....Pages 559-568
Genetic variability for mineral element concentrations in smooth bromegrass related to dairy cattle nutritional requirements....Pages 569-577
Molecular cloning of the plant plasma membrane H + -ATPase....Pages 579-590
Control of nutrient concentrations in plant growth media....Pages 591-601
Considerations of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza physiology in breeding for enhanced mineral uptake by plants....Pages 603-615
Progress since the first international symposium: ‘Genetic aspects of plant mineral nutrition’, Beograd, 1982, and perspectives of future research....Pages 617-629