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Plant Stress Tolerance

Methods and Protocols

  • Provides an easily accessible reference volume for plant stress tolerance written by leading researchers in the field
  • Details the wide range of assays relevant to assessing plant stress tolerance
  • Provides detailed step-by-step instructions for the protocols covering a whole range of topics in plant stress tolerance
  • Details the high-throughput identification of stress tolerance genes, proteins, and microRNAs
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 639)

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Table of contents (23 protocols)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Reviews and Overview Chapters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Dehydration Tolerance in Plants

      • Melvin J. Oliver, John C. Cushman, Karen L. Koster
      Pages 3-24
    3. Gene Regulation During Cold Stress Acclimation in Plants

      • Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Jian-Kang Zhu, Ramanjulu Sunkar
      Pages 39-55
    4. Array Platforms and Bioinformatics Tools for the Analysis of Plant Transcriptome in Response to Abiotic Stress

      • Nese Sreenivasulu, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Ulrich Wobus, Marc Strickert
      Pages 71-93
    5. Metabolic Engineering of Glyoxalase Pathway for Enhancing Stress Tolerance in Plants

      • Ananda Mustafiz, Khirod K. Sahoo, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek, Sudhir K. Sopory
      Pages 95-118
  3. Genome-Wide Approaches for Identification of Stress-Regulated Genes, Proteins, and Small RNAs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
  4. Genome-Wide Approaches for Identification of Stress Regulated Genes, Proteins, and Small RNAs

    1. Genetic Screens to Identify Plant Stress Genes

      • Csaba Papdi, Jeffrey Leung, Mary Prathiba Joseph, Imma Perez Salamó, László Szabados
      Pages 121-139
    2. Arabidopsis Tiling Array Analysis to Identify the Stress-Responsive Genes

      • Akihiro Matsui, Junko Ishida, Taeko Morosawa, Masanori Okamoto, Jong-Myong Kim, Yukio Kurihara et al.
      Pages 141-155
    3. Functional Characterization of Water-Deficit Stress Responsive Genes Using RNAi

      • Muthappa Senthil-Kumar, Makarla Udayakumar, Kirankumar S. Mysore
      Pages 193-206
    4. Thiol–Disulfide Redox Proteomics in Plant Research

      • Meenakumari Muthuramalingam, Karl-Josef Dietz, Elke Ströher
      Pages 219-238
    5. Cloning of Stress-Responsive MicroRNAs and other Small RNAs from Plants

      • Jose Luis Reyes, Catalina Arenas-Huertero, Ramanjulu Sunkar
      Pages 239-251
    6. An Array Platform for Identification of Stress-Responsive MicroRNAs in Plants

      • Xiaoyun Jia, Venugopal Mendu, Guiliang Tang
      Pages 253-269
  5. Antioxidant Enzymes and Metabolites

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
    2. Spectrophotometric Assays for Antioxidant Enzymes in Plants

      • Sathya Elavarthi, Bjorn Martin
      Pages 273-280

About this book

A number of abiotic factors such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, low or high light intensity, and deficiency or toxic levels of nutrients have huge impacts on crop productivity, and a furthering of our understanding of the molecular, biochemical, and physiological basis of stress tolerance has been widely recognized as critical. In Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers cover the most important widely-used techniques, including cutting-edge strategies, in a manner that ensures effective results. Beginning with reviews on dehydration, salinity, and cold tolerance as well as on oxidative stress, the volume then continues with methods involving topics such as describing the identification of stress-regulated genes, proteins, and microRNAs using diverse approaches, measurement of osmotic adjustment, proline levels, enzymes involved in proline metabolism, and sugars as well as determination of ROS levels, lipid peroxidation, ion leakage, and the enzymes involved in ROS detoxification. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, chapters include introductions to their respective subjects, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Comprehensive and up-to-date, Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols provides a wide range of easy-to-follow protocols catering to the needs of plant physiologists, biochemists, and molecular biologists interested in probing this vital area of study.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“The present works include 4 thematic areas that are developed along 23 chapters which focus, among others, basic aspects of the oxidative stress, the cold tolerance, the salinity and the analysis of transcriptomes related to these stress. … this work constitutes a valuable contribution to the researchers involved in the study of abiotic stress that affect the crops.” (Pascual Franzone, Integrated Pest Management Bulletin, December, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 246 NRC-D, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

    Ramanjulu Sunkar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plant Stress Tolerance

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols

  • Editors: Ramanjulu Sunkar

  • Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-702-0

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Protocols

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60761-701-3Published: 14 May 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5741-5Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-60761-702-0Published: 13 April 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1064-3745

  • Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 386

  • Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Sciences

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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