Plant Ecophysiology and Adaptation under Climate Change: Mechanisms and Perspectives I

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Climate Change Influences the Interactive Effects of Simultaneous Impact of Abiotic and Biotic Stresses on Plants

   • Ewa Surówka, Marcin Rapacz, Franciszek Janowiak

   Pages 1-50

3. Loss of Agro-Biodiversity and Productivity Due to Climate Change in Continent Asia: A Review

   • Arooj Fatima, Mujahid Farid, Kainat Safdar, Adil Fayyaz, Syeda Maheen Ali, Saira Adnan et al.

   Pages 51-71

4. Stress Implications and Crop Productivity

   • Syed Uzma Jalil, Mohammad Israil Ansari

   Pages 73-86

5. Impact of Climate Change on Postharvest Physiology of Edible Plant Products

   • Sajid Ali, Shaghef Ejaz, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Aamir Nawaz, Shakeel Ahmad

   Pages 87-115

6. Plant Adaptation and Tolerance to Environmental Stresses: Mechanisms and Perspectives

   • Ali Raza, Farwa Ashraf, Xiling Zou, Xuekun Zhang, Hassan Tosif

   Pages 117-145

7. Crop Growth Responses Towards Elevated Atmospheric CO2

   • Saurav Saha, Bappa Das, Dibyendu Chatterjee, Vinay K. Sehgal, Debashis Chakraborty, Madan Pal

   Pages 147-198

8. Coping with Saline Environment: Learning from Halophytes

   • Amal Ahmed Morsy, Karima Hamid A. Salama, Mohammed Magdy F. Mansour

   Pages 199-230

9. Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants Under Drought

   • Adegbehingbe Felix Taiwo, Olumide Daramola, Mounirou Sow, Vimal Kumar Semwal

   Pages 231-268

10. Strategies for Drought Tolerance in Xerophytes

    • Hanan Ahmed Hashem, Alsafa Hassan Mohamed

    Pages 269-293

11. Ecophysiology and Response of Plants Under High Temperature Stress

    • Renu Khanna-Chopra, Vimal Kumar Semwal

    Pages 295-329

12. Adaptation and Tolerance of Wheat to Heat Stress

    • Suresh, Renu Munjal

    Pages 331-342

13. High-Temperature Tolerance of Flowers

    • Satisha Hegde, Yui Umekawa, Etsuko Watanabe, Ichiro Kasajima

    Pages 343-371

14. Assessing the Effects of High Night Temperature on Rice Photosynthetic Parameters: Involvement of Cellular Membrane Damage and Ethylene Response

    • Abdul Razack Mohammed, Lee Tarpley

    Pages 373-391

15. Ecophysiological Responses of Plants Under Metal/Metalloid Toxicity

    • Roseline Xalxo, Vibhuti Chandrakar, Meetul Kumar, S. Keshavkant

    Pages 393-428

16. Ecophysiology of Plants Under Cadmium Toxicity: Photosynthetic and Physiological Responses

    • Anatoly A. Ivanov, Anatoly A. Kosobryukhov

    Pages 429-484

17. Ecophysiology and Stress Responses of Aquatic Macrophytes Under Metal/Metalloid Toxicity

    • Kashif Tanwir, Amna, Muhammad Tariq Javed, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Sohail Akram, Muhammad Zulqurnain Haider et al.

    Pages 485-511

18. Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Responses of the Plants Against Enhanced Ultraviolet B and Heavy Metal Stress

    • Deepanshi Jaiswal, Avantika Pandey, S. B. Agrawal

    Pages 513-554

19. Impact of UV Radiation on Photosynthetic Apparatus: Adaptive and Damaging Mechanisms

    • Anatoly Kosobryukhov, Alexandra Khudyakova, Vladimir Kreslavski

    Pages 555-576

20. UVB and UVB/White-Light-Induced Inhibition of Thylakoid Electron Transfer Reactions Studied by Fluorescence Induction and Fluorescence Decay: Damage to Donor and Acceptor Side Components of PSII

    • Roberto Barbato

    Pages 577-585

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology. With a particular focus on adaptation to a changing environment, it discusses ecophysiology and adaptive mechanisms of plants under climate change. Over the centuries, the incidence of various abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, extreme temperatures, atmospheric pollution, metal toxicity due to climate change have regularly affected plants and, and some estimates suggest that environmental stresses may reduce the crop yield by up to 70%. This in turn adversely affects the food security. As sessile organisms, plants are frequently exposed to various environmental adversities. As such, both plant physiology and plant ecophysiology begin with the study of responses to the environment. Provides essential insights, this book can be used for courses such as Plant Physiology, Environmental Science, Crop Production and Agricultural Botany.


Volume 1 provides up-to-date information on the impactof climate change on plants, the general consequences and plant responses to various environmental stresses.

• Plant Physiology
• Abiotic stress
• Salinity
• Drought
• Stress tolerance
• climate change impacts

• Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his PhD in Plant Stress Physiology and Antioxidant Metabolism from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan, as a recipient of a scholarship from the Japanese Government (MONBUKAGAKUSHO). Later, he completed his postdoctoral research at the Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, as a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship. Subsequently, he received the Australian Government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research as an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Australia. Mirza Hasanuzzaman has supervised 20 MS students. His current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance. Prof. Hasanuzzaman has published over 120 research publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited 12 books and written 45 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental problems in relation to agricultural plants. According to Scopus®, Prof. Hasanuzzaman’s publications have received roughly 4800 citations with an h index of 37 (As of April 2020).  He is an editor and reviewer for more than 50 peer-reviewed international journals and was a recipient of the “Publons Peer Review Award 2017, 2018 and 2019.” He has been honored by different authorities for his outstanding performance in different fields like research and education and has received the World Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Award (2014). He has attended and presented 25 papers at international conferences in many different countries (the USA, the UK, Germany, Australia, Japan, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Indonesia, etc.). Prof. Hasanuzzaman is an active member of 40 professional societies and is currently the Acting Research and Publication Secretary of the Bangladesh JSPS Alumni Association. He is also a fellow of The Linnean Society of London.

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