Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants

by Usha Chakraborty (Editor), Bishwanath Chakraborty (Editor)

Overview

Based on the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of tolerance of commonly encountered abiotic stresses in nature, this book covers the effect of increasing temperature, flood, drought, salinity, ozone and heavy metals such as arsenic and cadmium on plants. It discusses how these abiotic stresses can be managed in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way by utilising the alleviating mechanisms of microbes. Written in three sections, it considers each stress and their alleviation methods in detail, providing a rounded and vital resource on the subject for researchers and students of crop stress, management and biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780643731
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	08/31/2015
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Usha Chakraborty is at the University of North Bengal.

Bishwanath Chakraborty teaches at the University of North Bengal.

Table of Contents

Section I – Introduction

Section II – Temperature, Water and Salinity Stress
1. Heat Shock Proteins and Molecular Chaperones: role in regulation of cellular proteostasis and stress management
2. Heat response, senescence and reproductive development in plants
Ethylene, nitric oxide, and hemoglobins in plant tolerance to flooding
3. Monitoring the activation of jasmonate biosynthesis genes for selection of chickpea hybrids tolerant to drought stress
4. Genetic Engineering crop plants to sustain drought tolerance
5. Physiology and biochemistry of salt stress tolerance in plants
6. Sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) salt tolerance at various developmental levels

Section III - Heavy metals and Ozone
7. The impact of ozone pollution on plant defense metabolism: detrimental effects on yield and quality of agricultural crops
8. Potentiality of ethylene in sulphur-mediated counteracting adverse effects of cadmium in plants
9. Heavy metal and metalloid stress in plants: The genomics perspective
10. Influence of arsenic and phosphate on the growth and metabolism of cultivated plants

Section IV - General Abiotic stresses and their alleviation by microbes
11. Plant responses to abiotic stresses in sustainable agriculture
12. Interactive role of polyamines and reactive oxygen species in stress tolerance of plants
13. Indirect and direct benefits of the use of Trichoderma harzianum strain T-22 in agronomic plants subjected to abiotic and biotic stresses
14. Role of microorganisms in alleviation of abiotic stresses for sustainable agriculture