Overview
- Provides up to date comprehensive information on the key biological determinants of plant abiotic stresses with an emphasis on modern crop improvement strategies
- Is unique to combine the responses triggered in plants by various abiotic stresses, stress resistance mechanisms, changes in gene expression, regulation of stress tolerance mechanisms, generation of genomic resources and their utilizaion for QTL and association mapping, marker assisted and genomic selection, among others, for developing abiotic stress-tolerant crop varieties
- Chapters written by world authorities of their subject
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Part of the book series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity (SDEB, volume 20)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Abiotic stresses such as drought (water deficit), extreme temperatures (cold, frost and heat), salinity (sodicity) and mineral (metal and metalloid) toxicity limit productivity of crop plants worldwide and are big threats to global food security. With worsening climate change scenarios, these stresses will further increase in intensity and frequency. Improving tolerance to abiotic stresses, therefore, has become a major objective in crop breeding programs. A lot of research has been conducted on the regulatory mechanisms, signaling pathways governing these abiotic stresses, and cross talk among them in various model and non-model species. Also, various ‘omics’ platforms have been utilized to unravel the candidate genes underpinning various abiotic stresses, which have increased our understanding of the tolerance mechanisms at structural, physiological, transcriptional and molecular level. Further, a wealth of information has been generated on the role of chromatinassembly and its remodeling under stress and on the epigenetic dynamics via histones modifications.
The book consolidates outlooks, perspectives and updates on the research conducted by scientists in the abovementioned areas. The information covered in this book will therefore interest workers in all areas of plant sciences. The results presented on multiple crops will be useful to scientists in building strategies to counter these stresses in plants. In addition, students who are beginners in the areas of abiotic stress tolerance will find this book handy to clear their concepts and to get an update on the research conducted in various crops at one place
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genetic Enhancement of Crops for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress: Mechanisms and Approaches, Vol. I
Editors: Vijay Rani Rajpal, Deepmala Sehgal, Avinash Kumar, S.N. Raina
Series Title: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91956-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91955-3Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91956-0Published: 24 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2352-474X
Series E-ISSN: 2352-4758
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Evolutionary Biology