Developments in Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Vol. I

Contents: Preface. I. Recent Advances in Micronutrient Research: 1. Physiological and molecular advances in plant iron nutrition/A. Hemantaranjan, Bandana Bose, O.K. Garg and D.N. Tyagi. II. Plant Metabolism: 2. Phospholipid metabolism in plants/Pramod Kumar. 3. Metabolism of sucrose and starch in plants: synthesis and their degradation/Padmanabh Dwivedi. 4. Nitrate assimilation and nitrate reductase activity/M. Kar and B.K. Ghosh. III. Environmental Stresses in Plants: 5. Plant water relationships and strategies to improve salt tolerance/Vinod Goyal. 6. Impact of heavy metal pollution in plants/A.K. Bera, Anita Bera and Samadrita Barman Roy. IV. Biological Nitrogen Fixation: 7. Biological nitrogen fixation in pulses and cereals/J.D.S. Panwar and Vijay Laxmi. V. Sustainable Crop Productivity: 8. PGPR: a new group of biofertilizers for sustainable crop productivity/J.D.S. Panwar and K. Swarnalakshmi. 9. Towards an understanding of the factors affecting productivity of fruit crops/V.K. Singh. VI. Physiology and Biochemistry of Herbicides: 10. Role of herbicides in improving crop yields/I.V. Subba Rao and T.Y. Madhulety. Index.

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