Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants Under Changing Environment (eBook)

Volume 2

Parvaiz Ahmad, Mohd Rafiq Wani (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 2014
XVI, 394 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4614-8600-8 (ISBN)

Infos

??Abiotic stress has a detrimental impact on the living organisms in a specific environment and constitutes a major constraint to global agricultural production. The adverse environmental conditions that plants encounter during their life cycle not only disturb their metabolic reactions, but also hamper their growth and development on cellular and whole plant levels. These conditions are of great concern, particularly for those countries whose economies primarily rely on agriculture. Under abiotic stresses, plants amalgamate multiple external stress cues to bring about a coordinated response and establish mechanisms to mitigate such stresses by triggering a cascade of events leading to enhanced tolerance.

 

Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants under Changing Environment, Volume 2 displays the ways by which plants utilize and integrate many common signals and subsequent pathways to cope with less favourable environmental conditions. The book also describes the use of contemporary tools for the improvement of plants under such stressed environments. Concise yet comprehensive,  Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants under Changing Environment, Volume 2 is an indispensable resource for researchers, students, environmentalists and many others in this burgeoning area of research.

Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad
Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Dr. Mohd Rafiq Wani
Department of Botany, Govt. Degree College (Boys), Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Inhalt

Chapter 1Biochemical and Molecular Approaches for Drought Tolerance in PlantsParvaiz Ahmad, Asiya Hameed, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah, Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Saiema Rasool, Sumiya Jamsheed and Ashwani KumarChapter 2Heavy-Metal Attack on Freshwater Side: Physiological Defense Strategies of Macrophytes and Ecotoxicological OpsDavid Delmail and Pascal LabrousseChapter 3Secondary Metabolites and Environmental Stress in Plants: Biosynthesis, Regulation and FunctionMohammad Babar AliChapter 4Major Phytohormones under Abiotic Stress Iwona Morkunas, Van Chung Mai, Agnieszka Waśkiewicz, Magda Formela and Piotr GolińskiChapter 5 Nitric Oxide: Role in Plants under Abiotic StressAndrzej BajguzChapter 6Brassinosteroids: Improving Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress ToleranceRenu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Dhriti Kapoor, Poonam, Vandana Gautam, Ravdeep Kaur, Shagun Bali and Anket SharmaChapter 7Ethylene: Role in Plants under Environmental StressM.A. Matilla-Vázquez and A.J. Matilla Chapter 8Scenario of Climate Changes in the Context of AgricultureRida Rehman, Anber Hamdani, Aisha Naseem, Muhammad Ashraf and Alvina Gul KaziChapter 9Importance of Protective Compounds in Stress ToleranceAykut Sağlam and Sumira JanChapter 10Growth Patterns of Tomato Plants Subjected to Two Non-Conventional Abiotic Stresses: UV-C Irradiations and Electric FieldsAdriano Sofo, Donato Castronuovo, Stella Lovelli, Giuseppe Tataranni and Antonio ScopaChapter 11Rhizobacteria: Restoration of Heavy Metal Contaminated SoilsSeifeddine Ben Tekaya, Sherlyn Tipayno, Kiyoon Kim, Parthiban Subramanian and Tongmin SaChapter 12Potassium and Sodium Transport Channels under NaCl StressIgor Pottosin, Ana-María Velarde-Buendia and Oxana Dobrovinskaya   Chapter 13Jatropha curcas: An OverviewNisha Singh Tomar, Mohammad Abass Ahanger and R M Agarwal

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2013
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 394 p. 28 illus., 13 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Breeding • climate change • crop production • ecophysiology • Phytohormones
• ISBN-10: 1-4614-8600-9 / 1461486009
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-8600-8 / 9781461486008