Preface ......................................................... v
Contributors ................................................... ix
1 Roles and Functions of Plant Mineral Nutrients ............... 1
Frans J.M. Maathuis and Eugene Diatloff
2 Plant Growth and Cultivation ................................ 23
Dorina Podar
3 Protocols for Growing Plant Symbioses; Mycorrhiza ........... 47
Michael Schultze
4 Protocols for Growing Plant Symbioses; Rhizobia ............. 61
Benjamin Gourion, Marie Bourcy, Viviane Cosson, and Pascal
Ratet
5 Plant Cell Suspension Cultures .............................. 77
Roberto Moscatiello, Barbara Baldan, and Lorella Navazio
6 Soil Analysis Using Visible and Near Infrared
Spectroscopy ................................................ 95
Johanna Wetterlind, Bo Stenberg, and Raphael A. Viscarra
Rossel
7 Mineral Composition Analysis: Measuring Anion Uptake
and Anion Concentrations in Plant Tissues .................. 109
Malcolm J. Hawkesford, SarojParmar, and Peter Buchner
8 Multielement Plant Tissue Analysis Using ICP Spectrometry .. 121
Т.Н. Hansen, T.C. de Bang, K.H. Laursen, P. Pedas,
S. Husted, and J.K. Schjoerring
9 Mapping Element Distributions in Plant Tissues Using
Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Techniques .................. 143
Erica Donner, Martin D. de Jonge, Peter M. Kopittke, and
Enzo Lombi
10 Flux Measurements of Cations Using Radioactive Tracers ..... 161
D.T. Britto and H.J. Kronzucker
11 Ion Flux Measurements Using the MIFE Technique ............. 171
Sergey Shabala, Lana Shabala, Jayakumar Bose, Tracey
Cuin, and Ian Newman
12 Sampling and Analysis of Phloem Sap ........................ 185
Sylvie Dinant and Julia Kehr
13 Methods for Xylem Sap Collection ........................... 195
M. Alexou and A.D. Peuke
14 Plant Single Cell Sampling ................................. 209
Wieland Fricke
15 Measurements of Cytosolic Ion Concentrations in Live
Cells ...................................................... 233
Veena S. Anil, Kavitha P.G., Sam Kuruvilla, Pavan Kumar,
and M.K. Mathew
16 Real Time Measurement of Cytoplasmic Ions with Ion-
Selective Microelectrodes .................................. 243
Anthony J. Miller
17 Large-Scale Plant Ionomics ................................. 255
John M.C. Danku, BrettLahner, Elena Takubova, and David
E. Salt
18 Applications of High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping to
Study Nutrient Use Efficiency .............................. 277
Bettina Berger, Bas de Bxgt, and Mark Tester
Index ......................................................... 291
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