Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change

Plant nutrients are the vital elements essential for plant growth and survival, with key roles in adapting to challenging environments. Each nutrient, whether required in relatively large (macronutrients) or minute concentrations (micronutrients) plays a unique role in plant life cycle. Both the insufficient and surplus concentrations of these nutrients may render negative impacts on plant growth and development and therefore their homeostasis is considered critical for optimal plant growth and yield.

Plant Nutrition and Food Security in the Era of Climate Change comprehensively reviews all critical plant nutrients. Chapters include topics such as: biological roles, uptake and transport of vital nutrients in plants; an in-depth review of the roles of potassium, calcium, magnesium and trace element; molecular breeding approaches for enhanced plant nutrients; and exploring the rhizosphere microbiome for enhance nutrient availability.

Written by leading experts in the field of plant biology, this is an essential read for researchers and scientists interested in plant science, agronomy, food security and environmental science.

1. Entangling the interaction between essential and nonessential nutrients: implications for global food security 2. The importance of beneficial and essential trace and ultratrace elements in plant nutrition, growth, and stress tolerance 3. Crop nitrogen use efficiency for sustainable food security and climate change mitigation

4. Role of plant sulfur metabolism in human nutrition and food security 5. Potassium: an emerging signal mediator in plants? 6. Exploring the relationship between plant secondary metabolites and macronutrient homeostasis 7. Water and nitrogen fertilization management in light of climate change: impacts on food security and product quality 8. Soilless indoor smart agriculture as an emerging enabler technology for food and nutrition security amidst climate change 9. Plant ionomics: toward high-throughput nutrient profiling 10.  Cobalt and molybdenum: deficiency, toxicity, and nutritional role in plant growth and development 11.  Interplay between sodium and chloride decides the plant’s fate under salt and drought stress conditions 12.  Drought and nitrogen stress effects and tolerance mechanisms in tomato: a review 13. Arsenic stress and mineral nutrition in plants 14. Recent advances in micronutrient foliar spray for enhancing crop productivity and managing abiotic stress tolerance 15. Biotechnological tools for manipulating nutrient homeostasis in plants 16. Crop biofortification and food security 17. Biotechnological approaches for generating iron-rich crops 18. Use of nanomaterials in plant nutrition 19. Plant beneficial microbes in mitigating the nutrient cycling for sustainable agriculture and food security 20. Nutritional imbalance in plants under rising atmospheric CO2

Dr Vinay Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University. He has received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Punjabi University, Patiala. His area of research is additive manufacturing and the application of 3D printing for the development of new customizable solutions for structural and non-structural defects in heritage structures, and biomaterials for clinical applications. He has contributed extensively to additive manufacturing literature with publications appearing in Composite Part: B, Materials Letters, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Journal of Thermoplastic composite Materials, Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Sadhana, Materials Research Express, Advances in Materials Processing Technology, Proceedings of Institute of Mechanical Engineers Part-B, Part E, Part H, Part L, etc. He has authored 30 research papers and 25 book chapters

• A comprehensive review of all the important plant nutrients
• Discusses plant homeostasis under natural and changing environments
• Introduces novel approaches and state-of-the-art tool for enhancing the levels of targeted nutrients within plant tissues