Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants Under Changing Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Biochemical and Molecular Approaches for Drought Tolerance in Plants

   • Parvaiz Ahmad, Asiya Hameed, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah, Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Saiema Rasool et al.

   Pages 1-29

3. Heavy-Metal Attack on Freshwater Side: Physiological Defense Strategies of Macrophytes and Ecotoxicological Ops

   • David Delmail, Pascal Labrousse

   Pages 31-54

4. Secondary Metabolites and Environmental Stress in Plants: Biosynthesis, Regulation, and Function

   • Mohammad Babar Ali

   Pages 55-85

5. Major Phytohormones Under Abiotic Stress

   • Iwona Morkunas, Van Chung Mai, Agnieszka Waśkiewicz, Magda Formela, Piotr Goliński

   Pages 87-135

6. Nitric Oxide: Role in Plants Under Abiotic Stress

   • Andrzej Bajguz

   Pages 137-159

7. Brassinosteroids: Improving Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance

   • Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Dhriti Kapoor, Poonam, Vandana Gautam, Ravdeep Kaur et al.

   Pages 161-187

8. Ethylene: Role in Plants Under Environmental Stress

   • M. A. Matilla-Vázquez, A. J. Matilla

   Pages 189-222

9. Scenario of Climate Changes in the Context of Agriculture

   • Rida Rehman, Anber Hamdani, Aisha Naseem, Muhammad Ashraf, Alvina Gul Kazi

   Pages 223-264

10. Importance of Protective Compounds in Stress Tolerance

    • Aykut Sağlam, Sumira Jan

    Pages 265-284

11. Growth Patterns of Tomato Plants Subjected to Two Non-conventional Abiotic Stresses: UV-C Irradiations and Electric Fields

    • Adriano Sofo, Donato Castronuovo, Stella Lovelli, Giuseppe Tataranni, Antonio Scopa

    Pages 285-296

12. Rhizobacteria: Restoration of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils

    • Seifeddine Ben Tekaya, Sherlyn Tipayno, Kiyoon Kim, Parthiban Subramanian, Tongmin Sa

    Pages 297-323

13. Potassium and Sodium Transport Channels Under NaCl Stress

    • Igor Pottosin, Ana-María Velarde-Buendía, Oxana Dobrovinskaya

    Pages 325-359

14. Jatropha curcas: An Overview

    • Nisha Singh Tomar, Mohammad Abass Ahanger, R. M. Agarwal

    Pages 361-383

15. Back Matter

    Pages 385-394

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​​Abiotic stress has a detrimental impact on the living organisms in a specific environment and constitutes a major constraint to global agricultural production. The adverse environmental conditions that plants encounter during their life cycle not only disturb their metabolic reactions, but also hamper their growth and development on cellular and whole plant levels. These conditions are of great concern, particularly for those countries whose economies primarily rely on agriculture. Under abiotic stresses, plants amalgamate multiple external stress cues to bring about a coordinated response and establish mechanisms to mitigate such stresses by triggering a cascade of events leading to enhanced tolerance.

 

Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants under Changing Environment, Volume 2 displays the ways by which plants utilize and integrate many common signals and subsequent pathways to cope with less favourable environmental conditions. The book also describes the use of contemporary tools for the improvement of plants under such stressed environments. Concise yet comprehensive,  Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants under Changing Environment, Volume 2 is an indispensable resource for researchers, students, environmentalists and many others in this burgeoning area of research.

• Breeding
• Climate change
• Crop production
• Ecophysiology
• Phytohormones

• Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, India

  Parvaiz Ahmad

• Department of Botany, Anantnag College, Srinagar, India

  Mohd Rafiq Wani

Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad
Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Dr. Mohd Rafiq Wani
Department of Botany, Govt. Degree College (Boys), Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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