About this book series
This book series provides recent advancements in wide areas related to higher plants and how they adapt / evolve under environmental changes in a scenario of climate change. It investigates plants under the complementary point of views, including agronomy aspects (vegetables and fruits), nutrition and health (food security), “omics,” epigenetics, contamination by heavy metals, environmental stresses (salinity, drought, high and low temperatures), interaction with beneficial or pathogenic microorganisms, and application of exogenous molecules (nitric oxide, melatonin, chitosan, silicon, etc.) to palliate negative effects. It also includes changes due to climatic condition (high/low rainfall) taking into account that the climate change is often the reason why plants evolve in a challenging environment.
This book series also
covers molecular-/cellular-level responses of plants under different climatic
reasons. Families of molecules derived from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitric
oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) designated as reactive oxygen, nitrogen
and sulfur species (ROS, RNS and RSS, respectively) are included since,
depending on the production level, they function both as signal molecules and
as a mechanism of response against adverse/changing environmental conditions
that can produce multiple cellular damages, alter the redox state or even
trigger cell death. During these ensued metabolic processes, some anti-oxidative/oxidative
enzymes are also disturbed or triggered abruptly, but there are adequate
mechanisms of regulation/homeostasis in the different subcellular compartments
to keep these enzymes under control.
In the last decades, the
progression in this field has been enormous, but still there is so much in this
field to understand the plethora of phenomena behind.
- Electronic ISSN
- 2730-6208
- Print ISSN
- 2730-6194
- Series Editor
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- Dharmendra K. Gupta,
- José Manuel Palma,
- Francisco J. Corpas
Book titles in this series
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Melatonin: Role in Plant Signaling, Growth and Stress Tolerance
Phytomelatonin in normal and challenging environments
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