Up to two-thirds of the world population is at risk of deficiency in one or more essential
mineral elements. In order to overcome deficiency disorders of mineral nutrients …

In the present era of genomics, ionomics is one of the major pillars for the structural and
functional genomic study. The complete set of ions present in an organism is referred to as …

The ionome is defined as the mineral nutrient and trace element composition of an organism
and represents the inorganic component of cellular and organismal systems. Ionomics, the …

The ionome concept, which stands as the inorganic composition of an organism, was
introduced 15 years ago. Since then, the ionomics approaches have identified several …

Living systems are supported and sustained by the genome through the action of the
transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and ionome, the four basic biochemical pillars of …

Purdue University, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, West Lafayette,
Indiana, USA, e-mail: dsalt@ purdue. edu 92 elements have been identified on earth and 17 …

Background Plants require at least 14 mineral elements for their nutrition. These include the
macronutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) …

Plants, being sessile, face an array of biotic and abiotic stresses in their lifespan that
endanger their survival. Hence, optimized uptake of mineral nutrients creates potential new …

Plant diseases are one of the major limiting factors to shrink agricultural production and
farmers use high amounts of toxic chemicals to control plant diseases, unaware of the fact …

The elemental composition of a tissue or organism is defined as ionome. However, the
combined effects on the shoot ionome determined by the taxonomic character, the nutrient …