Molecular Analysis of Plant Adaptation to the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: The Molecular Analysis of Plant Adaptation to the Environment

   • Malcolm J. Hawkesford

   Pages 1-15

3. Genetic Dissection of Plant Stress Responses

   • Andy Pereira

   Pages 17-42

4. Differential Cloning

   • Peter Buchner

   Pages 43-60

5. Application of Genomics in Agriculture

   • Holger Hesse, Rainer Höfgen

   Pages 61-79

6. Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) for Analysis of Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Abiotic Stress

   • Jean-Louis Prioul, Claudine Thévenot

   Pages 81-101

7. Molecular Strategies to Overcome Salt Stress in Agriculture

   • Ilga Winicov

   Pages 103-129

8. The Responses of Plants to Pathogens

   • David B. Collinge, Jonas Borch, Kenneth Madriz-Ordeñana, Mari-Anne Newman

   Pages 131-158

9. Responses and Adaptations of Plants to Metal Stress

   • David Salt

   Pages 159-179

10. Molecular Responses to Oxidative Stress

    • John G. Scandalios

    Pages 181-208

11. Responses to Low Temperature and Adaptations to Freezing

    • Gareth J. Warren

    Pages 209-247

12. Plant Responses to Nutritional Stresses

    • Frank W. Smith

    Pages 249-269

13. Back Matter

    Pages 271-276

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Adverse environmental factors can impose stress on plants and influence the expression of the full genetic potential for growth and reproduction. The capability of plants to develop plastic response reactions, to adapt to environmental stress situations, is unique in the biological world. A goal of the research described in this volume is to increase crop productivity, particular in regions where the environment imposes stress. An understanding of the principles involved in plant adaptation to environmental stress will enable optimisation of practices to improve agronomic production and minimise damaging environmental impact. The aim of this volume is to link the rapidly advancing and increasingly specialist field of molecular biology with plant physiology at the ecosystem level. The book includes chapters focused on some principle methods and a series of up-to-date review chapters on plant adaptation to a variety of specific stresses. The utilisation of newly available genome information is emphasised. Of particular importance is the desire to highlight the current potential of such approaches, and how diverse disciplines can interact and complement one another. The book is aimed at both the specialist and the advanced student.

• Expression
• Pathogen
• Plant physiology
• ecosystem
• environment
• molecular biology
• physiology

• Agriculture and Environment Division, Institute of Arable Crop Research, Harpenden, UK

  Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Peter Buchner

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