Advances in Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition

Masud Mahmood, E. Rafique and K. Farooq

- Occurrence and correction of boron deficiency in wheat and mustard in Bangladesh M. Jahiruddin, M.U. Ahmed, M.A.Hossain, M.R. Islam, and M.F. Islam

- Boron deficiency and its nutrition of groundnut in India A.L. Singh, Vidya Chaudhari and M.S. Basu

- Poor tree form in Eucalyptus nitens linked to boron deficiency Timothy E. Smith

- Response of 'schattenmorelle' tart cherry trees to drip boron fertilization Pawel Wojcik

- Effect of micronutrients on citrus-fruit yield growing on calcareous soils M. Ibrahim, N. Ahmad and S. A. Anwar and T. Majeed

- Development of new boron micronutrient and determination of product applications Gaye akal, Ferhat, M. Engin elen, Sinem Sener, Sleyman Taban and S. B. Shukla

- Boron requirement and distribution in the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) and some implications on manuring practices K. J. Goh, H. H. Gan, K. K. Kee, P. S. Chew and K. C. Teoh

- Genotypic Differences of Boron Nutrition in Plants

- Physiological and genetic bases of boron utilization efficiency in Brassica napus Fangsen Xu and Yunhua Wang

- Genotypic differences in tolerance to B deficiency in mango in India M. Edward Raja

- Differences of cell wall constituents between different B-efficient rapeseed cultivars Yuhua Yang, Lijun Wang, Min Yu, Changwen Du, Yunhua Wang and Lishu Wu

- Determination of suitable maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes to be cultivated in boron-rich central Anatolian soil E.E. Hakki, E. Atalaya, M. Harmankay, M. Babaoglu, M. Hamurcu and S. Gezgin

Part II Boron in Animals and Humans

- Dietary boron: evidence for essentiality and homeostatic control in humans and animals Curtiss D. Hunt

- Dietary boron: evidence for a role in immune function Jerry W. Spears

- Boron as a dietary factor for bone microarchitecture and central nervous system function Forrest H. Nielsen, Barbara J. Stoecker and James G. Penland

- Boron and prostate cancer a model for understanding boron biology Curtis Eckhert, Wade Barranco and Danny Kim

- Boric acid inhibits cell growth in breast and prostate cancer cell lines Susan L. Meacham, Kyler E. Elwell, Sarah Ziegler and Stephen W. Carper

- Estimation of dietary boron and silicon intake in China Junquan Gao and Xiaowei Li

Part III Boron in Soils

- New advances in boron soil chemistry Sabine Goldberg and Chunming Su

- Boron adsorption on emiarid soils of Tamil Nadu, India R.Krishnasamy, U.Surendran, C.Sudhalakshmi and M.Edward Raja

- Relationship between plant availability of boron and the physicochemical properties of boron in soils Duanwei Zhu, Wang Juan, Shuijiao Liao and Wuding Liu

- Screening boron sources for suitability under different rain fall and soil condition for Mango in India M. Edward Raja

- Widespread boron deficiency in water-eroded soils of Pothwar plateau in Pakistan: identification, establishment and management A. Rashid, E. Rafique, M. Mahmood-ul-Hassan and M. Shafiq

- Boron environmental geochemistry and its environmental response Enjing Zhu and Ende Wang

- Micronutrients status in citrus orchards and soils under these orchards in Pakistan M. Ibrahim, N. Ahmad, A. Niaz and T. Majeed

- Subject Index

- Author Index