Explores how to maximize essential nutrients uptake and use efficiency by food crops and how to improve productivity without degrading the environment. This work covers nutrients and their cycle in soil-plant systems, functions, and deficiency symptoms. It emphasizes field conditions, crop production and soil chemistry.

This edition examines plant nutrition's role as one of the most important limiting factors that must be overcome to optimize food production. Extensively revised and updated, it provides coverage of topics such as genetic, physiological, and agronomic bases of crop growth.