into a variety of important compounds with structural and physiological roles in plants. We summarize how plant nutrients are linked to many metabolic pathways, plant hormones and other biological processes. We also focus on nutrient uptake, describing plant–microbe interactions, plant exudates, root architecture, transporters and their applications. Plants need to survive in soils with mineral...

The field of soil fertility deals mainly with the mineral nutrition of plants in which both the supplying power of the soil and the ability of the plant to absorb nutrients, are of importance. The soil may be considered as. the rooting medium which provides water and mineral nutrients necessary for plant growth. Ionic equilibria play a fundamental role in fertility relationships because they go...

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are fundamental for plant biomass production in grasslands, often co-limiting, have become major freshwater pollutants. By factorially applying gradients of N P to field-based grassland mesocosms, we tested saturating thresholds uptake as nutrients increase whether simultaneous potentially additive growing-season demand reduces flows dissolved subsurface leachate...

Cholecystokinin (CCK) is an archetypal incretin hormone secreted by intestinal enteroendocrine cells (EEC) in response to ingested nutrients. The aim of this study was to determine whether CCK modulates enterocyte fatty acid uptake by primary mouse duodenal cells. Exposure of primary mouse duodenal cells to 10 pM sulfated CCK-8 caused a two fold increase in dodecanoic acid fatty acid (FA) uptak...

Mice that harbor a targeted homozygous defect in the gene coding for the gap junctional protein connexin26 died in utero during the transient phase from early to midgestation. From day 10 post coitum onwards, development of homozygous embryos was retarded, which led to death around day 11 post coitum. Except for growth retardation, no gross morphological alterations were detected between homozy...