Contributors .................................................. vii
Prefасе ........................................................ ix
Section 1 The Nitrogen Cycle ................................... 3
1 The New Global Nitrogen Cycle ................................ 5
Jan Willem Erisman
Section 2 Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions ..................... 17
2 Plant Associations with Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium—
Evolutionary Origins and Divergence of Strategies in
Recruiting Soil Microbes .................................... 19
Gerben Bijl, Stéphane De Miia, and René Geurts
3 Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and N Acquisition by Plants .......... 52
Luisa Lanfranco, Mike Guether, and Paola Bonfante
4 Ectomycorrhiza and Nitrogen Provision to the Host Tree ...... 69
Michel Chalot and Claude Plassard
5 Proteins in the Rhizosphere: Another Example of Plant-
Microbe Exchange ............................................ 95
Clelia De-la-Peña and Jorge M. Vivanco
6 Actinorhizal Symbioses ..................................... 117
Katharina Pawlowski
7 Two in the Far North: The Alder-Frankia Symbiosis, with
an Alaskan Case Study ...................................... 138
Mike Anderson
8 The Path of Rhizobia: From a Free-Living Soil Bacterium
to Root Nodulation ......................................... 167
Pedro F. Mateos, Raúl Rivas, Marta Robledo, Encarna
Velázquez, Eustoquio Martínez-Molina, and David W. Emerich
9 Exploiting Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium Symbioses to Recover
Seriously Degraded Soils ................................... 195
Sergio Miana de Faria, Alexander S. Resende, Orivaldo
J. Saggin Júnior, and Robert M. Вodder
Section 3 Epi- and Endo-Phytic Microbes ...................... 215
10 Nitrogen: Give and Take from Phylloplane Microbes .......... 217
Mark A. Holland
11 N2-Fixing Endophytes of Grasses and Cereals ................ 231
Veronica Massena Reis, Jos Vanderleyden, and Stijn
Spaepen
Section 4 Arthropods ......................................... 255
12 Effects of Insect Herbivores on the Nitrogen Economy of
Plants ..................................................... 257
Leiling Tao and Mark D. Hunter
13 Plant Defense Proteins That Inhibit Insect Peptidases ...... 280
Carlos Peres Silva and Richard Ian Samuels
14 Nutrient Acquisition and Concentration by Ant Symbionts:
The Incidence and Importance of Biological Interactions
to Plant Nutrition ......................................... 308
Cynthia L. Sagers
Section 5 Environmental Signalling in N Acquisition .......... 331
15 The Functions of Flavonoids in Legume-Rhizobia
Interactions ............................................... 333
Oliver Yu and Yechun Wang
16 Plant Hormones and Initiation of Legume Nodulation and
Arbuscular Mycorrhization .................................. 354
Arijit Mukherjee and Jean-Michel Ané
17 Nitric Oxide as a Signal Molecule in Intracellular and
Extracellular Bacteria-plant Interactions .................. 397
Andrés Arruebarrena Di Palma, Lorenzo Lamattina, and
Cecilia M. Creus
Index ......................................................... 421
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