Handbook of plant and crop stress

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pessarakli, Mohammad, 1948-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton [Fla.] : CRC Press, 2011.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Books in soils, plants, and the environment.
Subjects:
Online Access:Distributed by publisher. Purchase or institutional license may be required for access.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Soil salinity and sodicity problems
  • pt. 2. Plant/crop tolerance and stressful conditions
  • pt. 3. Plants and crops responses : physiology, cellular, and molecular biology, and microbiological aspects under salt, drought, heat, cold, light, and other stressful conditions
  • pt. 4. Plant and crop responses to pollution stress
  • pt. 5. Plant and crop responses to weeds, pests, pathogens, and agrichemical stress conditions
  • pt. 6. Genetic factors and plant/crop genomics under stress
  • pt. 7. Examples of empirical investigations of specific plants and crops grown in salt, drought, and other environmental stress conditions
  • pt. 8. Climatic changes, elevated carbon dioxide, and plant/crop responses
  • pt. 9. Future promises : improving plant and crop adaptation/tolerance and cultivation under stressful conditions
  • pt. 10. Beneficial aspects of stress.