Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• SECTION ONE. MINERAL NUTRITION AND PLANT DISTRIBUTION
• The Effect of Liming and Fertilizers on the Botanical Composition of Permanent Grassland, and on the Yield of Hay
• Distribution of Pasture Plants in Relation to Chemical Properties of the Soil
• Influence of Mineral Nutrition on the Zonation of Flowering Plants in Coastal Salt-Marshes
• The Application of Ordination Techniques
• An Investigation of the Ecological Significance of Limechorosis by Means of Large-scale Comparative Experiments
• Discussion on Mineral Nutrition and Plant Distribution
• SECTION TWO. MINERAL NUTRIENT SUPPLY FROM SOILS
• The Soil Model and Its Application to Plant Nutrition
• Cation Equilibria and Competition Between Ions
• Phosphate Equilibria in Soil
• The Transport of Ions in the Soil around Plant Roots
• Discussion on Mineral Nutrient Supply from Soils
• SECTION THREE. MINERAL NUTRITION OF THE WHOLE PLANT SYSTEM
• Ecological Inferences from Laboratory Experiments on Mineral Nutrition
• The Absorption of Nutrients by Plants from Different Zones in the Soil
• The Influence of the Microflora on the Accumulation of Ions by Plants
• The Relation of Growth to the Chief Ionic Constituents of the Plant
• Ion Uptake and Ionic Balance in Plants in Relation to the Form of Nitrogen Nutrition
• Intra-specific Variations in Mineral Nutrition of Plants from Different Habitats
• Discussion in Mineral Nutrition of the Whole Plant System
• SECTION FOUR. MECHANISMS OF MINERAL NUTRITION
• The Physiology of the Uptake of Ions by the Growing Plant Cell
• The Properties of Mechanisms Involved in the Uptake and Utilization of Calcium and Potassium by Plants in Relation to an Understanding of Plant Distribution
• The Uptake of Phosphate and its Transport within the Plant
• Ion Movement within the Plant and its Integration with other Physiological Processes
• Discussion (A) on Mechanisms of Mineral Nutrition
• Mineral Metabolism of Halophytes
• Differences in the Properties of the Acid Phosphatases of Plant Roots and their Significance in the Evolution of Edaphic Ecotypes
• Metabolic Aspects of Aluminium Toxicity and soe Possible Mechanisms for Resistance
• Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants
• Discussion (B) on Mechanisms of Mineral Nutrition
• SECTION FIVE. SUMMATION
• An Ecologist's Viewpoint
• A Soil Scientist's Viewpoint
• A Physiologist's Viewpoint
• Discussion
• List of thos who attended the Symposium