Plant membrane and vacuolar transporters /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Plant translocation.; Plant cell membranes.; Plant Composition.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Nutrition.; Industrial Wastes and Effluents.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Amino acids.; Ammonium.; Biochemical transport.; Biochemical transporters.; Calcium.; Cell membranes.; Chemical composition.; Crop quality.; Heavy metals.; Ion transport.; Ion uptake.; Iron.; Manganese.; Nitrate.; Nutrient transport.; Nutrient uptake.; Phosphate.; Plant composition.; Polyols.; Potassium.; Productivity.; Proteomics.; Secondary metabolites.; Silicon.; Sugars.; Sulfate.; Uptake mechanisms.; Vacuoles.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 14 chapters that evaluate the current knowledge, state of art and future prospects of plant membrane and vacuolar transporters in relation to plant productivity and quality improvement. The role of transporters, the mechanisms of uptake, accumulation or transport of potassium, cal...

Table of Contents:

• Mechanisms of potassium uptake and transport in higher plants / Tracey A. Cuin, Igor I. Pottosin and Sergey N. Shabala
• Calcium transporters : from fields to the table / Jay Morris and Kendal Hirschi
• Nitrate and ammonium transporters in plants / Rana P. Singh, Manish Sainger, D.P. Singh and Pawan K. Jaiwal
• Plant sulfate transporters / Peter Buchner
• Phosphate uptake and transport to plant cells / Toshio Sano and Toshiyuki Nagata
• Iron uptake and transport in plants / Tzvetina Brumbarova and Petra Bauer
• Mechanisms of manganese accumulation and transport / Jon K. Pittman
• Silicon uptake and transport in higher plants / Yongchao Liang
• Heavy metal transporters in plants / Bibin Paulose, Pawan K. Jaiwal and Om Parkash Dhankher
• Sugar and polyol transporters in plants / Katsuhiro Shiratake
• Amino acid transporters in plants / Uwe Ludewig and Wolfgang Koch
• Membrane transport of secondary metabolites in plants / Nobukazu Shitan and Kazufumi Yazaki
• Proteomic analysis of the vacuolar membrane / Tetsuro Mimura, Miwa Ohnishi, Taise Shimaoka and Ken-ichi Tomizawa
• Elemental biofortification of crop plants / Savita Dahiya, Darshna Chaudhary, Ranjana Jaiwal, Om Parkash Dhankher, Rana P. Singh and Pawan K. Jaiwal.