Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition: The Fourth International Symposium on Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition, 30 September – 4 October 1991, Canberra, Australia

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Are we justified in breeding wheat for tolerance to acid soils in southern New South Wales?....Pages 1-8
Comparison of techniques for determining the effect of aluminium on the growth of, and the inheritance of aluminium tolerance in wheat....Pages 9-16
Breeding the perennial pasture grass Phalaris aquatica for acid soils....Pages 17-22
Screening perennial rye-grass from New Zealand for aluminium tolerance....Pages 23-33
Somaclonal variation in plant adaptation to acid soil in the tropical forage legume Stylosanthes guianensis ....Pages 35-44
Tolerance to manganese toxicity among cultivars of lucerne ( Medicago sativa L.)....Pages 45-52
Response to soil aluminium of two white clover ( Trifolium repens L.) genotypes....Pages 53-57
Differences in calcium efficiency between cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) cultivars....Pages 59-68
Wheat growth responses of cultivars to H + concentration....Pages 69-73
Effect of aluminium on the growth of 34 plant species: A summary of results obtained in low ionic strength solution culture....Pages 75-80
Callose formation as parameter for assessing genotypical plant tolerance of aluminium and manganese....Pages 81-89
Interspecific differences in aluminium tolerance in relation to root cation-exchange capacity....Pages 91-96
Preliminary results from a microscopic examination on the effects of aluminium on the root tips of wheat....Pages 97-101
Aluminium toxicity: Towards an understanding of how plant roots react to the physical environment....Pages 103-116
Increasing salinity tolerance of grain crops: Is it worthwhile?....Pages 117-126
Arguments for the use of physiological criteria for improving the salt tolerance in crops....Pages 127-135
Why does in vitro cell selection not improve the salt tolerance of plants?....Pages 137-142
Variation and inheritance of sodium transport in rice....Pages 143-150
Genetics and physiology of enhanced K/Na discrimination....Pages 151-158
Association between genes controlling flowering time and shoot sodium accumulation in the Triticeae....Pages 159-163
The inheritance of salt exclusion in woody perennial fruit species....Pages 165-171
Variation in growth and ion accumulation between two selected populations of Trifolium repens L. differing in salt tolerance....Pages 173-178
The role of ion channels in plant nutrition and prospects for their genetic manipulation....Pages 179-186
Effect of salt stress on plant gene expression: A review....Pages 187-193
Protein synthesis in halophytes: The influence of potassium, sodium and magnesium in vitro....Pages 195-203
Nutrient efficiency — what do we really mean?....Pages 205-213
A review of phosphorus efficiency in wheat....Pages 215-220
The involvement of mycorrhizas in assessment of genetically dependent efficiency of nutrient uptake and use....Pages 221-231
Screening maize inbred lines for tolerance to low-P stress condition....Pages 233-239
Inheritance studies of low-phosphorus tolerance in maize ( Zea mays L.), grown in a sand-alumina culture medium....Pages 241-249
Inheritance of phosphorus response in white clover ( Trifolium repens L.)....Pages 251-260
Heritability of, and relationships between phosphorus and nitrogen concentration in shoot, stolon and root of white clover ( Trifolium repens L.)....Pages 261-269
Polymorphism and physiology of arsenate tolerance in Holcus lanatus L. from an uncontaminated site....Pages 271-277
The role of piscidic acid secreted by pigeonpea roots grown in an Alfisol with low-P fertility....Pages 279-288
Effect of mineral nutrients and combined nitrogen on the growth and nitrogen fixation of Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis....Pages 289-294
Can maize cultivars with low mineral nutrient concentrations in the grains help to reduce the need for fertilizers in third world countries?....Pages 295-299
A physiological basis for genetic improvement to nitrogen harvest index in wheat....Pages 301-309
Post-transcriptional control of the expression of a plant gene by an environmental factor: Sulphur regulation of the expression of the Pea Albumin 1 gene....Pages 311-319
Strategies in population development for the improvement of Fe efficiency in soybean....Pages 321-326
Genetics of tolerance to iron chlorosis in rice....Pages 327-333
Genotypic variation among Indian graminaceous species with respect to phytosiderophore secretion....Pages 335-339
Requirement and response of crop cultivars to micronutrients in India — a review....Pages 341-348
Selecting zinc-efficient cereal genotypes for soils of low zinc status....Pages 349-358
Combining ability of the response to boron deficiency in wheat....Pages 359-361
Yield evaluation of a gene for boron tolerance using backcross-derived lines....Pages 363-366
Physiological and genetic control of the tolerance of wheat to high concentrations of boron and implications for plant breeding....Pages 367-376
Genetic variation in the response of pea ( Pisum sativum L.) to high soil concentrations of boron....Pages 377-385
Heavy-metal (Zn, Cd) tolerance in selected clones of duck weed ( Lemna minor )....Pages 387-396
Biosynthesis and metabolic roles of cadystins (γ-EC) n G and their precursors in Datura innoxia ....Pages 397-405
Genes with similarity to metallothionein genes and copper, zinc ligands in Pisum sativum L.....Pages 407-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-416