Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants: Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9781774912850 / Angielski

Aryadeep Roychoudhury

Opis

This new 3-volume set provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites so as to employ novel strategies to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Abiotic stresses such as drought, high salt, cold, heat, UV radiation, heavy metal pollution, etc., are increasingly responsible for restricting plant growth and agricultural production and are becoming more alarming due to threats from global climate change. To combat these threats, it is imperative to study the underlying mechanisms of stress tolerance from diverse metabolites and the biosynthesis pathways for metabolite production to maintain osmotic balance under diverse environmental stresses. This new book set, Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants, provides that understanding.

Volume 1: Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses exclusively on the diverse secondary metabolites that play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions as well as their implications in enhancing tolerance mechanisms. The chapters in this section review and integrate the currently available information on the protective role rendered by a wide array of antioxidative secondary metabolites and their regulation during diverse environmental stress.

Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance throws light on the different inorganic trace elements, including metal nanoparticles, that help to deal with various environmental stresses. While these elements at high level create considerable phytotoxicity and halt metabolic and enzymatic activity, they also promote growth and development in limited quantity, so that they have significant potential in revamping plant morphology and physiology under stressed conditions. Hence, optimum concentration management of these elements can help to mitigate world hunger and contribute toward sustainable agriculture and food security under challenging environments.

Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses on the agronomic and biochemical approaches as well as biotechnological and high-throughput technologies, including the prospects of genetic engineering, epigenetics and the latest CRISPR/Cas technology, in generating stress-tolerant plants. The volume provides a clear road map for the implementation of techniques for improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants for better sustenance.

Key features:

• Provides an advanced understanding of the mechanisms of action of secondary metabolites and trace elements in environmental stress tolerance as well as the different agronomic and biotechnological methods that enhances stress tolerance
• Looks at the overall metabolic pathways and genetic engineering, giving a holistic view of plant-level studies of diverse abiotic stresses affecting different metabolic pathways
• Provides the groundwork to help researchers in designing future programs for identifying novel genes and proteins and targeting proper pathways to develop climate-resilient plants

Altogether the three-volume Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants will enhance our understanding of plant responses to environmental stresses and enable implementation of programs and practices that can help us to develop climate-resilient plants with better performance for better yield and quality.

Spis treści

Part 1: Trace Elements in Sustaining Plant Growth 1. Trace Elements in Mitigating Environmental Stress: An Overview 2. Trace Elements and Their Role in Abiotic Stresses 3. Exogenous Application of Trace Elements and Their Uptake by Plants to Mediate Abiotic Stress Tolerance Part 2: Individual Trace Elements in Tolerance 4. Role of Iron and Manganese in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 5. Role of Zinc in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 6. Role of Silicon in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 7. Role of Selenium in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 8. Role of Nickel as a Potent Environmental Stress Reliever in Plants 9. Role of Cobalt in Plant Growth and Tolerance against Different Environmental Stresses 10. Role of Molybdenum in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 11. Role of Copper in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 12. Role of Sulfur in Plant Tolerance to Environmental Stress 13. Role of Chloride and Organic Acid Anions in Environmental Stress Tolerance 14. Role of Sulfur in Protection against Major Environmental Stress in Plants Part 3: Nanoparticles in Stress Tolerance 15. Application of Nanomaterial-Based Technology in Stress Management of Plants 16. Role of Nanoparticles in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 17. Nanotechnology and Use of Nanoparticles in Developing Environmental Stress-Tolerant Plants

O autorze

Aryadeep Roychoudhury, PhD, has over 20 years of research experience in the field of abiotic stress responses in plants with perspectives of physiology, molecular biology, and cell signaling under diverse stress conditions. He currently is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College, India and also handles several government-funded projects on abiotic stress responses in rice. To date, he has published many books, book chapters and over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a regular reviewer of articles in high-impact international journals, a life member of several scientific associations and societies, and the recipient of a Young Scientist Award 2019, conferred by the International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, at the University of Allahabad, India. His name is included in the Stanford University’s List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists.