Fall 1996
The essential text (recommended for purchase) for this course is:
Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
Other books for occasional readings are:
Soil Nutrient Bioavailability: A mechanistic Approach. S.A. Barber, 1984. Wiley & Sons.
Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System. P.H. Nye and P.B. Tinker, 1977. Univ. of Calif. Press.
Additional readings will be assigned from current scientific periodicals.
K+ Uptake Mechanisms, Active and Passive
Lagarde et al., (l996) Tissue-specific expression of Arabidopsis AKTl gene is consistent with a role in K+ nutrition. The Plant Journal 9:195-203.
Schroeder et al. (1994) Perspectives on the physiology and structure of inward-rectifying K+ charnels in higher plants: biophysical implications for K+ uptake. Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 23:441-471.
Schachtman & Schroeder (1994) Structure and transport mechanism of a high-affinity potassium uptake transporter from higher plants. Nature 370:655-658.
Maathuis & Sanders (1993) Energization of potassium uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana . Planta 191:302-307.
Schachtman et al. (1992) Expression of an inward-rectifying potassium channel by the Arabidopsis KAT1 cDNA. Science 258:1654-1658.
Anderson et al. (1992) Functional expression of a probable Arabidopsis thaliana potassium channel in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 89:3736-3740.
Sentenac et al. (1992) Cloning and expression in yeast of a plant potassium ion transport system. Science 256:663-665.
Rubio et al. (1995) Sodium-driven potassium uptake by the plant potassium transporter HKT1 and mutations conferring salt tolerance. Science 270:1660-1663.
Nitrate Uptake
Crawford (1995) Nitrate:nutrient and signal for plant growth. The Plant Cell 7:859-868.
Doddema & Telkamp (1979) Uptake of nitrate by mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana, disturbed in uptake or reduction of nitrate. II. Kinetics. Physiologia Plantarum 45:32-338.
McClure et al. (1990) Evidence for the cotransport of nitrate and protons in maize roots. I. Effects of nitrate on the membrane potential. Plant Physiology 93:281-289.
Tsay et al. (1993) The herbicide sensitivity gene CHL1 of Arabidopsis encodes a nitrate-inducible nitrate transporter. Cell 72:705-713.
Wang & Crawford (1996) Genetic identification of a gene involved in constitutive, high-affinity nitrate transport in higher plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:9297-9301.
Lauter et al. (1996) Preferential expression of an ammonium transporter and of two putative nitrate transporters in root hairs of tomato. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:8139-8144.
Ammonium Uptake
Ninnemann et al. (1994) Identification of a high affinity NH4+ transporter from plants. EMBO Journal 13:3464-3471.
Marini et al. (1994) Cloning and expression of the MEP1 gene encoding an ammonium transporter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EMBO Journal 13: 3456-3463.
Lauter et al. (1996) Preferential expression of an ammonium transporter and of two putative nitrate transporters in root hairs of tomato. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:8139-8144.
Wang et al. (1993) Ammonium uptake by rice roots. II. Kinetics of 13NH4+ influx across the plasmalemma. Plant Physiology 103:1259.
Tyerman et al. (1995) A channel-like transporter for NH4+ on the symbiotic interface of N2-fixing plants. Nature 378:629-632.
Sulfate Uptake
Smith et al. (1995) Plant members of a family of sulphate transporters reveal functional subtypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 92:9373-9377.
Equilibrium relationships of metal chelates in hydroponic solutions. A.D. Halvorson and W.L. Lindsay. 1972. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Proc. 36: 755-761.
An intermittent aeroponics system. L.A. Peterson and A.R. Kreuger. 1988. Crop Sci. 28:435-448.
Aeroponics for the culture of organisms, tissues and cells. P.J. Weathers and R.W. Zobel. 1992. Biotech. Adv. 10:93-115.
Measurement of short-term nutrient uptake rates in cranberry by aeroponics. P. Barak, J.D. Smith, A.R. Krueger, and L.A. Peterson. 1996. Plant, Cell, and Environ. 19:237-242.
A method for characterizing the relation between nutrient concentration and flux into roots of intact plants. N. Classen and S.A. Barber. 1974. Plant Physiol. 54:564-568.
See also the 626 course webpage on fitting Michaelis-Menten parameters to nutrient drawdown experiments at /~barak/soilscience626/mm3.htm
Chap 19: Partial Differential Equations: 19.0 Introduction; 19.2
Diffusive initial value problems; 19.3 Initial Value problems in
Multidimensions In: Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77 (2nd
ed.) or Numerical Recipes in C (2nd ed.)
(see also
Numerical Recipes
homepage)
Soil Nutrient Bioavailability: A mechanistic Approach. S.A. Barber, 1984. Wiley & Sons.
Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System. P.H. Nye and P.B. Tinker, 1977. Univ. of Calif. Press.
"The soil-root interface (Rhizosphere) in relation to plant nutrition." Chap. 15. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
"Functions of mineral nutrients: Macronutrients: Nitrogen." p. 231-255. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
"Functions of mineral nutrients: Macronutrients: Sulfur." p. 255-265. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
"Functions of mineral nutrients: Macronutrients: Phosphorus." p. 265-277. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
"Functions of mineral nutrients: Macronutrients: Magnesium." p. 277-285. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
"Functions of mineral nutrients: Macronutrients: Calcium." p. 285-299. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants. 2nd Ed. H. Marschner, 1995. Academic Press.
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