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.

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.

Contributors.Preface.Section 1 The Nitrogen Cycle.1 The New Global Nitrogen Cycle (Jan Willem Erisman).Section 2 Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions.2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae andRhizobium--Evolutionary Origins and Divergence ofStrategies in Recruiting Soil Microbes (Gerben BijlStéphane De Mita, and René Geurts).3 Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and N Acquisition by Plants (LuisaLanfranco, Mike Guether, and Paola Bonfante).4 Ectomycorrhiza and Nitrogen Provision to the Host Tree(Michel Chalot and Claude Plassard).5 Proteins in the Rhizosphere: Another Example of Plant-MicrobeExchange (Clelia De-la-Peña and Jorge M. Vivanco).6 Actinorhizal Symbioses (Katharina Pawlowski).7 Two in the Far North: The Alder-Frankia Symbiosis, withan Alaskan Case Study (Mike Anderson).8 The Path of Rhizobia: From a Free-Living Soil Bacterium toRoot Nodulation (Pedro F. Mateos, Raúl Rivas, MartaRobledo, Encarna Velázquez, Eustoquio Martínez-Molinaand David W. Emerich).9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to RecoverSeriously Degraded Soils (Sérgio Miana de Faria, AlexanderS. Resende, Orivaldo J. Saggin Júnior, and Robert M.Boddey).Section 3 Epi- and Endo-Phytic Microbes.10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes (Mark A.Holland).11 N2-Fixing Endophytes of Grasses and Cereals(Veronica Massena Reis, Jos Vanderleyden, and StijnSpaepen).Section 4 Arthropods.12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy ofPlants (Leiling Tao and Mark D. Hunter).13 Plant Defense Proteins That Inhibit Insect Peptidases(Carlos Peres Silva and Richard Ian Samuels).14 Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts: TheIncidence and Importance of Biological Interactions to PlantNutrition (Cynthia L. Sagers).Section 5 Environmental Signalling in N Acquisition.15 The Functions of Flavonoids in Legume-Rhizobia Interactions(Oliver Yu and Yechun Wang).16 Plant Hormones and Initiation of Legume Nodulation andArbuscular Mycorrhization (Arijit Mukherjee and Jean-MichelAné).17 Nitric Oxide as a Signal Molecule in Intracellular andExtracellular Bacteria-plant Interactions (AndrésArruebarrena Di Palma, Lorenzo Lamattina, and Cecilia M.Creus).Index.