Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants

Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Acquisition covers how plants compete for nitrogen in complex ecological communities and the associations plants recruit with other organisms, ranging from soil microbes to arthropods. The book is divided into four sections, each addressing an important set of relationships of plants with the environment and how this impacts the plant’s ability to compete successfully for nitrogen, often the most growth-limiting nutrient. Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Acquisition provides thorough coverage of this important topic, and is a vitally important resource for plant scientists, agronomists, and ecologists.Content: Chapter 1 The New Global Nitrogen Cycle (pages 3–15): Jan Willem ErismanChapter 2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium—Evolutionary Origins and Divergence of Strategies in Recruiting Soil Microbes (pages 17–51): Gerben Bijl, Stephane De Mita and Rene GeurtsChapter 3 Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and N Acquisition by Plants (pages 52–68): Luisa Lanfranco, Mike Guether and Paola BonfanteChapter 4 Ectomycorrhiza and Nitrogen Provision to the Host Tree (pages 69–94): Michel Chalot and Claude PlassardChapter 5 Proteins in the Rhizosphere: Another Example of Plant?Microbe Exchange (pages 95–116): Clelia De?la?Pena and Jorge M. VivancoChapter 6 Actinorhizal Symbioses (pages 117–137): Katharina PawlowskiChapter 7 Two in the Far North: The Alder?Frankia Symbiosis, with an Alaskan Case Study (pages 138–166): Mike AndersonChapter 8 The Path of Rhizobia: From a Free?living Soil Bacterium to Root Nodulation (pages 167–194): Pedro F. Mateos, Raul Rivas, Marta Robledo, Encarna Velazquez, Eustoquio Martunez?Molina and David W. EmerichChapter 9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to Recover Seriously Degraded Soils (pages 195–215): Sergio Miana de Faria, Alexander S. Resende, Orivaldo J. Saggin Junior and Robert M. BoddeyChapter 10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes (pages 215–230): Mark A. HollandChapter 11 N2?Fixing Endophytes of Grasses and Cereals (pages 231–253): Veronica Massena Reis, Jos Vanderleyden and Stijn SpaepenChapter 12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy of Plants (pages 255–279): Leiling Tao and Mark D. HunterChapter 13 Plant Defense Proteins That Inhibit Insect Peptidases (pages 280–307): Carlos Peres Silva and Richard Ian SamuelsChapter 14 Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts: The Incidence and Importance of Biological Interactions to Plant Nutrition (pages 308–329): Cynthia L. SagersChapter 15 The Functions of Flavonoids in Legume?Rhizobia Interactions (pages 331–353): Oliver Yu and Yechun WangChapter 16 Plant Hormones and Initiation of Legume Nodulation and Arbuscular Mycorrhization (pages 354–396): Arijit Mukherjee and Jean?Michel AneChapter 17 Nitric Oxide as a Signal Molecule in Intracellular and Extracellular Bacteria?plant Interactions (pages 397–420): Andres Arruebarrena Di Palma, Lorenzo Lamattina and Cecilia M. Creus