Plant Nutrients and Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
 Biological Functions, Uptake and Transport of Essential Nutrients in Relation to Plant Growth  (K. S. Karthika, I. Rashmi, M. S. Parvathi)....Pages 1-49
 Role of Plant Nutrients in Plant Growth and Physiology  (Nalini Pandey)....Pages 51-93
 Foliar Application of Micronutrients in Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Crop Plants  (Sibgha Noreen, Zartash Fatima, Shakeel Ahmad, Habib-ur-Rehman Athar, Muhammad Ashraf)....Pages 95-117
 Biofortification of Plant Nutrients: Present Scenario  (Sonal Dixit, Rajni Shukla, Yogesh Kumar Sharma)....Pages 119-136
 Trace Elements in Abiotic Stress Tolerance  (Mumtaz Khan, Rehan Ahmad, Muhammad Daud Khan, Muhammad Rizwan, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Jamil Khan et al.)....Pages 137-151
 Biomolecular Functions of Micronutrients Toward Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants  (Shyam N. Pandey)....Pages 153-170
 Phosphorus Nutrition: Plant Growth in Response to Deficiency and Excess  (Hina Malhotra, Vandana, Sandeep Sharma, Renu Pandey)....Pages 171-190
 Role of Potassium in Governing Photosynthetic Processes and Plant Yield  (Ricardo Tighe-Neira, Miren Alberdi, Patricio Arce-Johnson, Jesús Romero, Marjorie Reyes-Díaz, Zed Rengel et al.)....Pages 191-203
 Heavy Metal Tolerance in Two Algerian Saltbushes: A Review on Plant Responses to Cadmium and Role of Calcium in Its Mitigation  (Bouzid Nedjimi)....Pages 205-220
 The Role of Sulfur in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Molecular Interactions and Defense Mechanisms  (Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Md. Shahadat Hossain, M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan, Jubayer Al Mahmud, Kamrun Nahar, Masayuki Fujita)....Pages 221-252
 The Role of Silicon in Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stress  (Tomasz Kleiber)....Pages 253-267
 Mechanisms of Selenium-Induced Enhancement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants  (Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Renata Matraszek-Gawron)....Pages 269-295
 Plant Nutrients and Their Roles Under Saline Soil Conditions  (Hassan El-Ramady, Tarek Alshaal, Nevien Elhawat, Azza Ghazi, Tamer Elsakhawy, Alaa El-Dein Omara et al.)....Pages 297-324
 Ionic Basis of Salt Tolerance in Plants: Nutrient Homeostasis and Oxidative Stress Tolerance  (Koushik Chakraborty, Nabaneeta Basak, Debarati Bhaduri, Soham Ray, Joshitha Vijayan, Krishnendu Chattopadhyay et al.)....Pages 325-362
 Role of Micronutrients in Salt Stress Tolerance to Plants  (Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Fasih Khalid, Mubshar Hussain, Muhammad Arif Ali, Aamir Nawaz, Iqra Zakir et al.)....Pages 363-376
 Role of Beneficial Trace Elements in Salt Stress Tolerance of Plants  (Aditya Banerjee, Aryadeep Roychoudhury)....Pages 377-390
 Nutrient Homeostasis and Salt Stress Tolerance  (Shahid Farooq, Shakeel Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain, Mubshar Hussain)....Pages 391-413
 Ion Homeostasis and Antioxidant Defense Toward Salt Tolerance in Plants  (Pedro García-Caparrós, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, María Teresa Lao)....Pages 415-436
 Salinity Stress Alleviation by Organic and Inorganic Fertilization  (Nusrat Jabeen)....Pages 437-476
 Aspects of Co-tolerance Towards Salt and Heavy Metal Stresses in Halophytic Plant Species  (Alina Wiszniewska, Iwona Kamińska, Aleksandra Koźmińska, Ewa Hanus-Fajerska)....Pages 477-498
 Role of Mineral Nutrients in Plant Growth Under Extreme Temperatures  (Usman Khalil, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Khalil Ur Rahman, Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim, Ullah Najeeb et al.)....Pages 499-524
 Molecular Approaches to Nutrient Uptake and Cellular Homeostasis in Plants Under Abiotic Stress  (Gyanendranath Mitra)....Pages 525-590