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Foliar Application of Micronutrients in Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Crop Plants

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Plant Nutrients and Abiotic Stress Tolerance

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Balanced and precise crop nutrients application is a pre-requisite tool for meeting the second Sustainable Development Goals for achieving food security and improved human nutrition and to promote agriculture under stressful environments. Large increase in productivity cannot be attained without ensuring that plants are supplied with adequate and balanced mineral nutrients. Mineral fertilizers are an important basic resource for nearly half of the world’s crop production. The productivity of food, feed, fiber, and biofuel is ought to be paralleled with global population that is expected to reach nine billion before the middle of twenty-first century. Among the nutrient management system, the foliar feeding provides a potential prospective option to meet the diversity of site- and crop-specific conditions, irrigation water supplies, eco-edaphic factors and farm management, and also concurrent economic and environmental prospective. Taking trade-off into account, the foliar feeding of essential nutrients will accrue in mitigating the negative effects of abiotic stresses, with concurrent maximizing productivity. This technique is cost-effective and beneficial under stressful conditions. The plants well-fed with essential nutrients have greater tolerance capacity in response to abiotic stresses. Thereby foliar feeding of nutrients is also referred as climate-smart agriculture. The response of foliar feeding varies greatly due to crop species, growth stages, concentration of added nutrient solution, and the relative water content in the plant parts. The plant nutrients, their importance in crop production, and some insights into how to best manage them by foliar feeding method in response to abiotic stresses are discussed.

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Noreen, S., Fatima, Z., Ahmad, S., Athar, HuR., Ashraf, M. (2018). Foliar Application of Micronutrients in Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Crop Plants. In: Hasanuzzaman, M., Fujita, M., Oku, H., Nahar, K., Hawrylak-Nowak, B. (eds) Plant Nutrients and Abiotic Stress Tolerance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9044-8_3

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