Inorganic Plant Nutrition (Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, 15)

The first book bearing the title of this volume, Inorganic Plant Nutrition, was written by D. R. HOAGLAND of the University of California at Berkeley. As indicated by its extended title, Lectures on the Inorganic Nutrition of Plants, it is a collection of lectures - the JOHN M. PRATHER lectures, which he was invited in 1942 to give. at Harvard University and presented there between April 10 and 23 of that year - 41 years before the publication of the present volume. They were not "originally intended for publication" but fortunately HOAGLAND was persuaded to publish them; the book appeared in 1944. It might at first blush seem inappropriate to draw comparisons between a book embodying a set of lectures by a single author and an encyclopedic volume with no less than 37 contributors. But HOAGLAND'S book was a compre­ hensive account of the state of this science in his time, as the present volume is for ours. It was then still possible for one person, at least for a person of HOAGLAND'S intellectual breadth and catholicity of interests, to encompass many major areas of the entire field, from the soil substrate to the metabolic roles of nitrogen, potassium, and other nutrients, and from basic scientific topics to the application of plant nutritional research in solving problems encountered in the field. The first book bearing the title of this volume, Inorganic Plant Nutrition, was written by D.R. HOAGLAND of the University of California at Berkeley. As indicated by its extended title, Lectures on the Inorganic Nutrition of Plants, it is a collection of lectures - the JOHN M. PRATHER lectures, which he was invited in 1942 to give. at Harvard University and presented there between April 10 and 23 of that year - 41 years before the publication of the present volume. They were not "originally intended for publication" but fortunately HOAGLAND was persuaded to publish them; the book appeared in 1944. It might at first blush seem inappropriate to draw comparisons between a book embodying a set of lectures by a single author and an encyclopedic volume with no less than 37 contributors. But HOAGLAND'S book was a compreƯ hensive account of the state of this science in his time, as the present volume is for ours. It was then still possible for one person, at least for a person of HOAGLAND'S intellectual breadth and catholicity of interests, to encompass many major areas of the entire field, from the soil substrate to the metabolic roles of nitrogen, potassium, and other nutrients, and from basic scientific topics to the application of plant nutritional research in solving problems encountered in the field Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII Introduction....Pages 1-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 General Introduction to the Mineral Nutrition of Plants....Pages 5-60 The Significance of Rhizosphere Microflora and Mycorrhizas in Plant Nutrition....Pages 61-93 Modern Solution Culture Techniques....Pages 94-119 Diagnosis of Mineral Deficiencies Using Plant Tests....Pages 120-146 Interactions Between Nutrients in Higher Plants....Pages 147-180 Import and Export of Mineral Nutrients in Plant Roots....Pages 181-211 Cycling of Elements in the Biosphere....Pages 212-238 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics of Dinitrogen Fixation....Pages 241-285 Dinitrogen-Fixing Symbioses with Legumes, Non-Legume Angiosperms and Associative Symbioses....Pages 286-329 Dinitrogen Fixation in Rhizosphere and Phyllosphere Associations....Pages 330-350 Uptake and Reduction of Nitrate: Bacteria and Higher Plants....Pages 351-375 Uptake and Reduction of Nitrate: Algae and Fungi....Pages 376-397 Front Matter....Pages 399-399 Reduction and Other Metabolic Reactions of Sulfate....Pages 401-421 Physiology and Metabolism of Phosphate and Its Compounds....Pages 422-449