Plant adaptation to environmental change : significance of amino acids and their derivatives /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Subjects: Crops > Effect of stress on.; Crops > Adaptation.; Crops > Physiology.; Amino acids.; Polyamines.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Plants.; Adaptation.; Amines.; Brassinosteroids.; Derivatives.; Endogenous growth regulators.; Genetic improvement.; Peptides.; Plant growth regulators.; Stress.; Stress response.
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This book describes the significance of amino acids and their derivatives in plant stress adaptation/tolerance, and presents biotechnological strategies for the manipulation of amino acids and their major derivatives to improve abiotic and abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. Chapter 1 presents...

Table of Contents:

• Environmental Change, and Plant Amino Acids and their Derivatives - An Introduction / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill, Imran Khan and Ritu Gill
• 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) - A Multifunctional Amino Acid as a Plant Growth Stimulator and Stress Tolerance Factor / Yoshikatsu Murooka and Tohru Tanaka
• Cysteine - Jack of All Glutathione-based Plant Stress Defence Trades / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Ritu Gill
• Amino Acids and Drought Stress in Lotus : Use of Transcriptomics and Plastidic Glutamine Synthetase Mutants for New Insights in Proline Metabolism / Pedro Díaz, Marco Betti, Margarita García-Calderón, Carmen M. Pérez-Delgado, Santiago Signorelli, Omar Borsani, Antonio J. Márquez and Jorge Monza
• Modulation of Proline : Implications in Plant Stress Tolerance and Development / P. Suprasanna, Archana N. Rai, P. HimaKumari, S. Anil Kumar and P.B. KaviKishor
• Target Osmoprotectants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants - Glycine Betaine and Proline / Sarvajeet S. Gill, Ritu Gill and Naser A. Anjum
• Polyamines as Indicators and as Modulators of the Abiotic Stress in Plants / Pablo Ignacio Calzadilla, Ayelén Gazquez, Santiago Javier Maiale, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz and Menéndez Ana Bernardina
• Polyamines in Stress Protection - Applications in Agriculture / Rubén Alcázar and Antonio F. Tiburcio
• Functional Role of Polyamines and Polyamine-metabolizing Enzymes during Salinity, Drought and Cold Stresses / Aryadeep Roychoudhury and Kaushik Das
• Regulatory Role of Polyamines in Growth, Development and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants / Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar and Masayuki Fujita
• Polyamines - Involvement in Plant Stress Tolerance and Adaptation / Dessislava Todorova, Zornitsa Katerova, Iskren Sergiev and Vera Alexieva
• Role of Polyamines in Plant-Pathogen Interactions / Abhijit Dey, Kamala Gupta and Bhaskar Gupta
• Role of Polyamines in Stress Management / Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Neha Handa, Dhriti Kapoor, Harpreet Kaur, Vandana Gautam and Sukhmeen Kohli
• Polyamines in Plant In Vitro Culture / Jose Luis Casas
• Betaines and Related Osmoprotectants - Significance in Metabolic Engineering of Plant Stress Resistance / Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Resham Sharma and Poonam
• Brassinosteroids' Role for Amino Acids, Peptides and Amines Modulation in Stressed Plants - A Review / B. Vidya Vardhini
• Plant Adaptation to Environmental Change, and Significance of Amino Acids and their Derivatives - Appraisal and Perspectives / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Ritu Gill.