1 Small Heat Shock Proteins: Emerging Roles in Seed Vigor and Longevity
Harmeet Kaur, Bhanu Prakash Petla and Manoj Majee
2 Plant Small Heat Shock Proteins and its Interations with Biotic Stress
Valéria Stefania Lopes-Caitar, Suellen Mika Hishinuma Silva and Francismar Corrêa Marcelino-Guimaraes
3 Small Heat Shock Proteins, a Key Player in Grass Plant Thermotolerance
Kehua Wang, Xunzhong Zhang and Erik H. Ervin
4 Induction of Heat Shock Proteins During the Bud Dormancy Stage in Woody Fruit Plants
Yoshihiro Takemura and Fumio Tamura
5 Evolution Canyon
Eviatar Nevo and Yang Zujun
6 Insights into the Mechanism of Heat Shock Mitigation Through Protein Repair, Recycling and Degradation
Rashid Mehmood Rana, Muhammad Ammar Khan, Muhammad Kausar Nawaz Shah, Zulfiqar Ali and Hongsheng Zhang
Part II: Large Plant Heat Shock Proteins (HSP)
7 Plant Stress Response: HSP70 in the Spotlight
Doel Ray, Anupama Ghosh, Soumyajit Banerjee Mustafi and Sanghamitra Raha
8 The Role of Plant 90-kDa Heat Shock Protein in Plant Immunity
Marina G. Corigliano and Marina Clemente
9 Chloroplasts HSP70B and HSP90C as Markers for Oxidative Stress
Stephanie Chankova and Nadezhda Yurina
10 The Involvement of HSP70 and HSP90 in Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infection in Tomato Plants and Insect Vectors
Rena Gorovits, Yule Liu and Henryk Czosnek
Part III: Heat Shock Proteins and Plant Therapeutics
11 Heat Shock Proteins and Phytochemicals: Role in Human Health and Disease
Xinyu Wang, Srujana Rayalam and Vishakha Bhave
12 Plant Extracts and Animal Heat Shock Proteins in Aging
Samuel E. Schriner
13 Molecular Chaperones and HSPs in Sugarcane and Eucalyptus
Carlos H. I. Ramos and Conrado de Campos Gonçalves
14 Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Improving Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants
Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy, Thammineni Chakradhar, Ramesha A. Reddy, Srikrishna Mahanty and Malireddy K. Reddy
15 NGS-Based Expression Profiling of HSP Genes During Cold and Freeze Stress in Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.)
P. C. Sharma and Saurabh Chaudhary
16 Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Heat Shock Protein (HSP) Gene Expression
Yuanyuan Ren and Yan Zhu
Index
Heat Shock Proteins and Plants provides the most up-to-date and concise reviews and progress on the role of heat shock proteins in plant biology, structure and function and is subdivided into chapters focused on Small Plant HSPs (Part I), Larger Plant HSPs (Part II) and HSPs for Therapeutic Gain (Part III). This book is written by eminent leaders and experts from around the world and is an important reference book and a must-read for undergraduate, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of Agriculture, Botany, Crop Research, Plant Genetics and Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Drug Development and Pharmaceutical Sciences.