Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants
This book discusses and addresses the rapidly increasing world population demand for food, which is expected to double by 2050. To meet these demands farmers will need to improve crop productivity, which relies heavily on nitrogen (N) fertilization. Produ
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eering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants
Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants
Ashok Shrawat Adel Zayed David A. Lightfoot •
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Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants
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Editors Ashok Shrawat Biotechnology Monsanto Company Chesterfield, MO USA
David A. Lightfoot Department of Plant, Soil and Agricultural Systems Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL USA
Adel Zayed Biotechnology Monsanto Company Chesterfield, MO USA
ISBN 978-3-319-92957-6 ISBN 978-3-319-92958-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92958-3
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This book is dedicated to the speakers of our “Engineering Nitrogen Use Efficiency Workshop,” which has been held every year since 2003 at the Plant and Animal Genomics Conference, San Diego, USA. This tome is planned to be the first of many volumes on this topic because NUE Workshop speakers excel every year. Please contact us with presentations for future Workshops. Thanks to all. Ashok Shrawat, David A. Lightfoot, and Adel Zayed
Preface
This book celebrates 14 years of the “Nitrogen Use Efficiency Engineering” workshop at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference every January in San Diego, California. Each chapter was volunteered by a presenter. Nitrogen is important. It an essential component in cellular physiology being scarce in bio-available forms. In contrast, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen are much more bio-available. Nitrogen is present in numerous essential compounds including nucleoside phosphates and amino acids that form the building blocks of nucleic
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