Boron
in Plants and Agriculture: Exploring the Physiology of Boron and Its Impact on
Plant Growth highlights the various emerging techniques and applications that
are currently being used in plant-boron interaction studies, and provides a
direction towards implementation of programs and practices that will enable
sustainable production of crops, resilient to boron stress. Boron is an
important micronutrient that plays a crucial role in the growth and development
of plants, however despite a significant amount of recent research, there has
remained a gap in the understanding of boron update and transportation. Boron
deficiency is one of the most widespread deficiencies among plant
micronutrients in agriculture and it causes a wide range of symptoms including the
cessation of root elongation, reduced leaf expansion and the loss of fertility,
depending on the plant species and developmental stage. This book reviews and
integrates the currently available information on the impact of boron on
functional and adaptive features of plants from molecular, biochemical,
physiological to whole plant level. It is a key resource for those working in
stress physiology, stress proteins, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering
and other fields of plant physiology related to boron nutrition, including
agriculture.