Plant stress physiology /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Plant physiology.; Plants > Effect of stress on.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Disorders and Injuries (Not caused directly by Organisms); Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Meteorology and Climate.; Natural Disasters.; Industrial Wastes and Effluents.; Adaptation.; Aluminium.; Cold stress.; Cold tolerance.; Desiccation.; Disease resistance.; Drought.; Drought resistance.; Frost.; Frost resistance.; Heat stress.; Heat tolerance.; Heavy metals.; Oxidative stress.; Phytotoxicity.; Plant diseases.; Plant pathogens.; Salinity.; Salt tolerance.; Signal transduction.; Soil pH.; Stress.; Stress response.; Ultraviolet radiation.; Waterlogging.; Electronic books.
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This book provides a timely update on the recent progress in our knowledge of all aspects of plant's perception, signalling and adaptation to a variety of environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, cold, frost and soil pH extremes, Al and heavy metal toxicities, desiccation, waterl...

Table of Contents:

• Drought tolerance in crops : physiology to genomics / Lakshmi P. Manavalan and Henry T. Nguyen
• Reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in plants / Vadim Demidchik
• Salinity stress : physiological constraints and adaptive mechanisms / Sergey Shabala and Rana Munns
• Chilling stress / Eric Ruelland and Sylvie Collin
• Heat stress / Anthony E. Hall
• Frost tolerance in plants / Lawrence V. Gusta and Michael Wisniewski
• Flooding tolerance in plants / Chiara Pucciariello and Pierdomenico Perata
• Adaptations to aluminium toxicity / Peter R. Ryan and Emmanuel Delhaize
• Soil pH extremes / Andre Läuchli and Stephen R. Grattan
• Heavy metal toxicity in plants / Philip J. White
• Desiccation tolerance / Jill M. Farrant, Keren Cooper, and Hanlie Nell
• UV-B radiation : from stressor to regulatory signal / Marcel A.K. Jansen
• Biotic stress signalling : calcium mediated pathogen defence programmes / Yi Ma and Gerald A. Berkowitz.