Advanced Plant Nutrition

Fundamentals of plant nutrient availability, uptake, assimilation, transport, function, and deficiencies. Influence of plant root environment and root physiology on plant nutrient status and subsequent effect on plant growth, crop yield.

Characterize and identify leaf deficiency and toxicity symptoms of mineral nutrients in crop plants.

•           Describe essential steps of root absorption, shoot transport, leaf remobilization and seed deposition of mineral nutrients.

•           Describe critical functions of mineral nutrients in plant growth and stress tolerance.

•           Characterize the relationships between mineral nutrition and tolerance to diseases in crop plants.

•           Understand how plants modify rhizosphere soil chemically and biologically when exposed to a nutrient deficiency.