Global Climate Change and Plant Stress Management

ISBN-13: 9781119858522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 450 str.

Spis treści

Part 1: Climate change - Global Impact: The chapters in this sectiondetail climate change conditions and their effects on different agricultural practices.Chapter 1: Global climate change and sustainable agricultureChapter 2: Soil Fertility under Climate change scenarioChapter 3: Climate change and Green FarmingPart 2: Socio-Economic aspects of Climate Change: Details the socio-economic consequences of climate change and different ways to counter these adverse effects.Chapter 4: Global climate change and DesertificationChapter 5: Climate change scenario and Agricultural productionChapter 6: Climate change and HorticultureChapter 7: Climate change and food securityChapter 8: Climate change and Agro-biodiversityPart 3: Plant Stress under Climate Change: Molecular Insights: Covers different aspects of the physiological, biochemical and molecular effects of climate change recently studied plants. They acquaint the readers with different molecular mechanisms that plants undergo under the climatic adverse conditions.Chapter 9: Climate change and plant adaptation mechanismsChapter 10: Plant physiology under Climate changeChapter 11: Molecular responses to Elevated CO2Chapter 12: Drought Tolerance Traits: Physiology and BiochemistryChapter 13: Enhanced Radiations and Plant AdaptationChapter 14: Salinity Tolerance in plants: A Molecular StudyChapter 15: Soil Fertility under Climate change scenarioPart 4: Stress Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: Covers investigated strategies and hypothesis to tackle plant stress under climate change conditions.Chapter 16: Understanding Halophytes for Climate Resilient AgricultureChapter 17: Climate change and High temperature adaptationChapter 18: Genetic Engineering and Stress Tolerance in Crop PlantsChapter 19: Role of Chemical additives in Plant-Stress MitigationChapter 20: Understanding Plant Signaling Cascades to manage biotic stressChapter 21: Transcriptional Reprogramming and Stress managementChapter 22: Genomics for Environmental Stress management in Crop PlantsChapter 23: Antiviral RNA Silencing for Plant stress managementChapter 24: Targeting photosynthesis pathways for Cold Stress adaptation Chapter 25: Soil Management for enhancing crop productivity

O autorze

Mohammad Wahid Ansari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Zakir Hussain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India. He has researched and published widely on plant biology and stress tolerance.Anil Kumar Singh is Principal Scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. He has researched extensively into plant adaptations and environmental responses, as well as plant stress tolerance and related subjects.Narendra Tuteja is Visiting Scientist at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. He has published extensively on plant stress tolerance, mango malformation and related subjects.