Essential Plant Nutrients and Recent Concepts About Their Uptake -- Status and Importance of Nutrients for Plant Growth & Development: Role of Essential and Beneficial Nutrients in Plant Growth and Development -- Nutrient Deficiency: its Impact on Crop Productivity -- Quantitative Attributes of Nutrient Uptake and Use Efficiency -- Biochar as Soil Amendment for Essential Plant Nutrient Uptake -- Nutrient Use Efficiency -- Understanding the Dynamics of Phosphorus Starvation and Plant Growth -- Response Pattern of Selected Tropical Perennials to Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers Based on Empirical Data -- Unraveling the Impact of Essential Mineral Nutrients on Active Constituents of Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants -- Actions of Biological Trace Elements in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance -- Regulatory Role of Mineral Nutrients and PGRs in Nurturing of Medicinal Legumes Under Salt Stress -- Role of Iron in Alleviating Heavy Metal Stress -- Calcium Applications Enhances Plant Salt Tolerance: A Review -- Short-term Transformation and Dynamics of Main Nutrients in Soil -- Nitrogen Recycling and Remobilisation are Differentially Controlled by Leaf Senescence -- Genetic Engineering and Molecular Strategies for Nutrient Manipulation in Plants -- Genotypic Factors Determining Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants -- Regulating Root Activity and Nutrient Uptake in Plants: Molecular Physiological Mechanisms -- Plant Mineral Nutrition and Membrane Transport in Plants -- Efficient Management of Plant Nutrients for Augmenting Crop, Soil, and Environmental Quality -- Leaching of Plant Nutrients from Agricultural Lands and its Management -- Plant-microbe Interactions for Phosphate Management in Tropical Soils -- Plant-microbe Interaction for Nutrient Management -- Improving Plath Phosphorus Acquisition by Phosphate Solubilizing Rhizobacteria Under P Deficient Environment -- Soil Microorganisms and Nutrient Phytoremediation -- Nutrient Management: Getting Ready for Battle Against Biotic Stress.

This book explores the agricultural, commercial, and ecological future of plants in relation to mineral nutrition. It covers various topics regarding the role and importance of mineral nutrition in plants including essentiality, availability, applications, as well as their management and control strategies. Plants and plant products are increasingly important sources for the production of energy, biofuels, and biopolymers in order to replace the use of fossil fuels. The maximum genetic potential of plants can be realized successfully with a balanced mineral nutrients supply. This book explores efficient nutrient management strategies that tackle the over and under use of nutrients, check different kinds of losses from the system, and improve use efficiency of the plants. Applied and basic aspects of ecophysiology, biochemistry, and biotechnology have been adequately incorporated including pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, agronomical, breeding and plant protection parameters, propagation and nutrients managements. This book will serve not only as an excellent reference material but also as a practical guide for readers, cultivators, students, botanists, entrepreneurs, and farmers. .