Contents: Preface. 1. Soil and plant procedures to control iron deficiency/A. Wallace. 2. The remedy of lime-induced chlorosis in peanuts by iron chelates/I. Papastylianou. 3. Interactions of the plant energy budget and environmental stress on iron stress-response physiology/Jesse H. Bennett, N. Jerry Chatterton, Philip A. Harrison and W. Robert Thornley. 4. Physiological and biochemical aspects of iron nutrition/A. Hemantaranjan. 5. Iron nutrition and photosynthesis: biogenesis and assembly of the photosystem 1 reaction center complex in cyanobacteria and higher plants/James A. Guikema, William R. Odom, Quiang Xu, Peter P. Wong and Parag R. Chitnis. 6. Iron in symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes/C. Tang. 7. Is a direct physical contact between plant roots and soil : a prerequisite for iron mobilization? A review/A. Mozafar. 8. Phytosiderophore production and activity/A. Hemantaranjan. 9. Phytosiderophore based iron acquisition in gramineae plants/Kalyan Singh, M. Chino, N.K. Nishizawa, Satoshi Mori and A.K. Singh. 10. Siderophore-mediated iron uptake in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria/A. Vaishampayan. 11. Mycorrhizae and iron nutrition/Louis E. Chinnery. 12. Techniques in iron nutrition research/A. Hemantaranjan and O.K. Garg. Subject Index.

"The book, Advancements in Iron Nutrition Research, presents for the first time a complete and up-to-date information on iron nutrition and interactions in diverse groups of plants under a wide range of agro-climatic conditions and deals with the detailed physiology and biochemistry of iron related to different strategies in higher plants in mobilization and uptake and its functions in chloroplast, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, enzyme and protein structure. Information on the newer techniques in iron nutrition researches has also been incorporated to harvest the maximum possible benefits in improving plants for tolerance to iron deficiency. Special care has been taken in reviewing the recent advances in phytosiderophore production and activity.

In fact, this treatise is a treasure for interdisciplinary exchange of information. The approach to the topic ranges from theoretical to applied, molecular to organismic and single to multivariable systems." (jacket)

[A. Hemantaranjan is Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Physiology, Banaras Hindu University.]