Book description
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Volume II - A Sustainable Approach helps readers take technological measures to alleviate plant stress and improve crop production in various environmental conditions.
This resource provides a comprehensive review of how technology can be implemented to improve plant stress tolerance to increase productivity and meet the agricultural needs of the growing human population. The book considers issues of deforestation, disease prevention, climate change and drought, water and land management, and more. It will help any scientist better understand environmental stresses to improve resource management within a world of limited resources.
- Includes the most recent advances methods and applications of biotechnology to crop science
- Promotes the prevention of potential diseases to inhibit bacteria postharvest quality of fruits and vegetable crops by advancing application and research
- Presents a thorough account of research results and critical reviews
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
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Chapter 1. Improvement of Legume Crop Production Under Environmental Stresses Through Biotechnological Intervention
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Major stresses affecting legume crop production
- 1.3 Biotic stresses for legumes
- 1.4 Biotechnological interventions for biotic stress tolerance in legumes
- 1.5 Abiotic stresses in legumes
- 1.6 Biotechnological interventions for abiotic stress tolerance in legumes
- 1.7 Conclusion and future prospects
- References
- Chapter 2. Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Insights from Proteomics
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Chapter 3. Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in Crop Improvement under Environmental Stress
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- 3.3 Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soil fertility
- 3.4 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and environmental stresses in plants
- 3.5 Ion transport in plants under stress and the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- 3.6 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and mineral nutrition
- 3.7 Conclusion and future prospects
- References
- Chapter 4. Role of Endophytic Microbes in Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Plants
- Chapter 5. Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria Elicited Induced Systemic Resistance and Tolerance in Plants
- Chapter 6. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Metal Phytoremediation: Ecophysiological Complementarity in Relation to Environmental Stress
- Chapter 7. Biological Control of Fungal Disease by Rhizobacteria under Saline Soil Conditions
- Chapter 8. Crop Plants under Saline-Adapted Fungal Pathogens: An Overview
- Chapter 9. Preventing Potential Diseases of Crop Plants Under the Impact of a Changing Environment
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Chapter 10. Plant Responses to Metal Stress: The Emerging Role of Plant Growth Hormones in Toxicity Alleviation
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Sources of heavy metal pollution
- 10.3 Transport and distribution of metal in plants
- 10.4 Heavy metal toxicity in plants
- 10.5 Plant defense systems
- 10.6 Plant growth hormones
- 10.7 Role of plant growth hormones under stress
- 10.8 Conclusion and future prospects
- Acknowledgments
- References
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Chapter 11. Reactive Nitrogen Species and the Role of NO in Abiotic Stress
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 The reactive nitrogen species
- 11.3 Drought stress
- 11.4 Waterlogging stress
- 11.5 High temperature stress
- 11.6 Low temperature stress
- 11.7 Salinity stress
- 11.8 Heavy metal stress
- 11.9 Air pollutants
- 11.10 Exposure to high light conditions
- 11.11 UV-B radiation
- 11.12 Conclusion and future prospects
- Acknowledgments
- References
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Chapter 12. Role of Tocopherol (Vitamin E) in Plants: Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Beyond
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Chemistry and types of tocopherol
- 12.3 Tocopherol biosynthesis and accumulation in plants
- 12.4 The role of tocopherol in plant growth and physiology
- 12.5 Tocopherol and abiotic stress tolerance
- 12.6 The antioxidative role of tocopherol in plants
- 12.7 Conclusion and future prospects
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 13. Land and Water Management Strategies for the Improvement of Crop Production
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Chapter 14. Integrating Physiological and Genetic Approaches for Improving Drought Tolerance in Crops
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Drought stress in changing environments
- 14.3 Water deficit as a major abiotic factor limiting crop yields
- 14.4 Crop growth and response to water deficits
- 14.5 Osmotic adjustment during drought stress
- 14.6 Methodologies for screening genotypes under drought stress
- 14.7 Key physiological attributes for targeted breeding programs
- 14.8 Precise phenotyping for drought-tolerance attributes
- 14.9 Identification and characterization of drought-related genes and QTLs
- 14.10 Proteomic studies
- 14.11 Breeding approaches for developing drought-tolerant superior germplasm
- 14.12 Conclusion and future prospects
- References
- Chapter 15. The Use of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Kinetics Analysis to Study the Performance of Photosynthetic Machinery in Plants
- Chapter 16. Manipulating Osmolytes for Breeding Salinity-Tolerant Plants
- Chapter 17. Osmolyte Dynamics: New Strategies for Crop Tolerance to Abiotic Stress Signals
- Chapter 18. The Emerging Role of Aquaporins in Plant Tolerance of Abiotic Stress
- Chapter 19. Prospects of Field Crops for Phytoremediation of Contaminants
- Chapter 20. Sustainable Soil Management in Olive Orchards: Effects on Telluric Microorganisms
- Chapter 21. The Vulnerability of Tunisian Agriculture to Climate Change
- Index
Product information
- Title: Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2014
- Publisher(s): Academic Press
- ISBN: 9780128010877
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