Global demand to increase food production and simultaneously reduce synthetic nitrogen
fertilizer inputs in agriculture are underpinning the need to intensify the use of legume crops …

Background Nitrogen (N) is one of the key mineral nutrients for plants and its availability has
a major impact on their growth and development. Most often N resources are limiting and …

Nitrogen (N) is a critical nutrient for plants but is often distributed unevenly in the soil. Plants
therefore have evolved a systemic mechanism by which N starvation on one side of the root …

The impact on nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles of human activity is a growing
concern and has several causes and consequences (MacDonald et al., 2011; Peñuelas et …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Understanding how predation risk and plant defenses interactively shape plant distributions
is a core challenge in ecology. By combining global positioning system telemetry of an …

Nitrogen is the only macronutrient that is commonly available to plants in both oxidized and
reduced forms, mainly nitrate and ammonium. The physiological and molecular effects of …

This important book provides a comprehensive review of our current knowledge of the
world's leguminous plants and their symbiotic bacteria. Written by Professor Janet Sprent, a …

As sessile organisms, root plasticity enables plants to forage for and acquire nutrients in a
fluctuating underground environment. Here, we use genetic and genomic approaches in a …

To compete for nutrients in diverse soil microenvironments, plants proliferate lateral roots
preferentially in nutrient-rich zones. For nitrate, root foraging involves local and systemic …