Annals of Botany 93: 343, 2004
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Abrol, Y. P. and Ahmad, A. Sulphur in plants
Sulphur in plants.
Abrol YP, Ahmad A, eds. 2003.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
£121·00 (hardback). 398 pp.
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Since the publication of the still-valuable Sulphur in agriculture volume (Tabatabai MA, ed., Madison: American Society of Agronomy) in 1986, there has been tremendous progress in knowledge of plant sulfur metabolism and the significance of sulfur metabolites in plant functioning. The growing awareness that sulfur deficiency is currently one of the major nutrient stresses in agriculture, not only in Western Europe but throughout the world, and the assessment of the significance of sulfur metabolites for