Abiotic stresses in crop plants /

• Other Authors: Chakraborty, Usha, (Editor), Chakraborty, Bishwanath, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Subjects: Crops > Effect of stress on.; Crops > Physiology.; Plant Production.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Soil Biology.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Industrial Wastes and Effluents.; Beneficial organisms.; Climate change.; Crop yield.; Drought resistance.; Environmental factors.; Heavy metals.; Metal tolerance.; Ozone.; Salinity.; Salt tolerance.; Soil fungi.; Stress.; Stress response.; Sustainability.; Temperature.; Water stress.; Yield losses.
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This book provides an overall perspective on the current progress being made in the area of abiotic stresses and their management for sustainable agriculture. It contains 15 chapters divided into three sections: (i) temperature, water and salinity stress; (ii) heavy metals and ozone; and (iii) gener...

Table of Contents:

• Heat-Shock Proteins and Molecular Chaperones : Role in Regulation of Cellular Proteostasis and Stress Management / M. Kapoor and S.S. Roy
• Heat Response, Senescence and Reproductive Development in Plants / Renu Khanna-Chopra and Vimal Kumar Semwal
• Ethylene, Nitric Oxide and Haemoglobins in Plant Tolerance to Flooding / Luis A.J. Mur, Kapuganti J. Gupta, Usha Chakraborty, Bishwanath Chakraborty and Kim H. Hebelstrup
• Monitoring the Activation of Jasmonate Biosynthesis Genes for Selection of Chickpea Hybrids Tolerant to Drought Stress / Palmiro Poltronieri, Marco Taurino, Stefania Bonsegna, Stefania De Domenico and Angelo Santino
• Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants to Sustain Drought Tolerance / J. Amudha and G. Balasubramani
• Physiology and Biochemistry of Salt Stress Tolerance in Plants/ André Dias de Azevedo Neto and Elizamar Ciríaco da Silva
• Sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) Salt Tolerance at Various Developmental Levels / Ch.B. Gandonou and N. Skali-Senhaji
• The Impact of Ozone Pollution on Plant Defence Metabolism : Detrimental Effects on Yield and Quality of Agricultural Crops / Fernanda Freitas Caregnato, Rafael Calixto Bortolin, Armando Molina Divan Junior and José Cláudio Fonseca Moreira
• Potentiality of Ethylene in Sulfur-mediated Counteracting Adverse Effects of Cadmium in Plants / Mohd Asgher, Mehar Fatma and Nafees A. Khan
• Heavy Metal and Metalloid Stress in Plants : the Genomics Perspective / Piyalee Panda, Lingaraj Sahoo and Sanjib Kumar Panda
• Influence of Arsenic and Phosphate on the Growth and Metabolism of Cultivated Plants / Asok K. Biswas
• Plant Responses to Abiotic Stresses in Sustainable Agriculture / Zlatko Stoyanov Zlatev
• Interactive Role of Polyamines and Reactive Oxygen Species in Stress Tolerance of Plants / Rup Kumar Kar
• Indirect and Direct Benefits of the Use of Trichoderma harzianum Strain T-22 in Agronomic Plants Subjected to Abiotic and Biotic Stresses / Antonella Vitti, Maria Nuzzaci, Antonio Scopa and Adriano Sofo
• Role of Microorganisms in Alleviation of Abiotic Stresses for Sustainable Agriculture / Usha Chakraborty, Bishwanath Chakraborty, Pannalal Dey and Arka Pratim Chakraborty.