Stress Responses in Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Salt Stress in Higher Plants: Mechanisms of Toxicity and Defensive Responses

   • Anabella Fernanda Lodeyro, Néstor Carrillo

   Pages 1-33

3. Physiology and Biochemistry of Aluminum Toxicity and Tolerance in Crops

   • Anjali Aggarwal, Bunichi Ezaki, Ashok Munjal, Bhumi Nath Tripathi

   Pages 35-57

4. Adaptive Mechanisms of Photosynthetic Apparatus to UV Radiation

   • A. A. Kosobryukhov, V. Yu. Lyubimov, V. D. Kreslavski

   Pages 59-78

5. Signal Perception and Mechanism of Salt Toxicity/Tolerance in Photosynthetic Organisms: Cyanobacteria to Plants

   • Chhavi Agrawal, Sonia Sen, Antra Chatterjee, Shweta Rai, Shivam Yadav, Shilpi Singh et al.

   Pages 79-113

6. Plant Responses to Soil Flooding

   • Tamara I. Balakhnina

   Pages 115-142

7. Mechanism of Arsenic Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants: Role of Silicon and Signalling Molecules

   • Meetu Gupta, Ehsanullah Khan

   Pages 143-157

8. Response of Wheat Seedlings to Combined Effect of Drought and Salinity

   • Anatoly A. Ivanov

   Pages 159-198

9. Plant Response to UV-B: From Tolerance to Toxicity

   • Suruchi Singh, S. B. Agrawal, Madhoolika Agrawal

   Pages 199-215

10. Metabolic Strategy of Annual Desert Plants: Adaptive Phenomenon of CAM and C4 Photosynthesis Functioning in a Leaf

    • Valery Yu. Lyubimov, Karl Ya. Biel

    Pages 217-246

11. Salicylic Acid and Drought Stress Response: Biochemical to Molecular Crosstalk

    • Sonali Pandey, Dipjyoti Chakraborty

    Pages 247-265

12. Drought Resistance in Crops: Physiological and Genetic Basis of Traits for Crop Productivity

    • Renu Khanna-Chopra, Kalpana Singh

    Pages 267-292

This collection discusses the variety of specific molecular reactions by means of which plants respond to physiological and toxic stress conditions. It focuses on the characterization of the molecular mechanisms that underlie the induction of toxicity and the triggered responses and resistances. The nine chapters, all written by prominent researchers, examine heavy metal toxicity, aluminum toxicity, arsenic toxicity, salt toxicity, drought stress, light stress, temperature stress, flood stress and UV-B stress. In addition, information on the fundamentals of stress responses and resistance mechanisms is provided. The book addresses researchers and students working in the fields of plant physiology and biochemistry.​

• abiotic stress in plants
• drought stress
• environmental adaption
• flood stress
• heavy metal toxicity and resistance
• salt stress

“A new collection of articles, edited by Tripathi and Müller, summarizes part of the current knowledge on stress responses in plants. The volume contains 11 articles that review plant physiological and metabolic responses to abiotic stresses. … the reviews will be valuable to experienced readers as well as newcomers to the field of plant stress physiology.” (André Kessler, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 92 (3), September, 2017)

• Academy of Innovative Research, Ambedkarnagar, India

  Bhumi Nath Tripathi

• Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  Maria Müller

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