Salt Stress, Microbes, and Plant Interactions: Mechanisms and Molecular Approaches
Volume 2
Editors: Akhtar, Mohd Sayeed (Ed.)
Free Preview- Explains about saline stress which is considered the most severe stress that effect not only the soil and plant growth but also the living organisms
- Emphasizes on signaling and regulatory pathway between plants and microbes under saline environment
- Beneficial to different universities and research institutes working on agronomy, ecology, stress physiology, environmental science, crop science and molecular biology
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This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. Excessive salts in soil reduce the availability of water, inhibit metabolic processes, and affect nutrient composition, osmotic balance, and hydraulic conductivity. Plants have developed a number of tolerance mechanisms, such as various compatible solutes, polyamines, reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense mechanisms, ion transport and compartmentalization of injurious ions. The exploitation of genetic variation, use of plant hormones, mineral nutrients, soil microbe interactions, and other mechanical practices are of prime importance in agriculture, and as such have been the subject of multidisciplinary research.
Covering both theoretical and practical aspects, the book provides essential physiological, ecological, biochemical, environmental and molecular information as well as perspectives for future research. It is a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers and anyone interested in agronomy, ecology, stress physiology, environmental science, crop science and molecular biology. - About the authors
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Dr. Mohd Sayeed Akhtar (PhD) is working as an Assistant Professor in Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India. He has received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India in 2008, prior to conducting post-doctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel (BIB), Switzerland (2008–2010), and Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Republic of Korea in 2011. He was an Assistant Professor, Jimma University, Ethiopia (2011-2014), and a fellow researcher at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), (2014-2015). Dr. Akhtar has more than 15 years of research, and 10 years of teaching experience in soil microbiology, applied microbiology, environmental microbiology, molecular biology, plant pathology and plant nanobiotechnology. He is author and co-author of more than hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has edited 12 books with international publishers. He is serving the scientific community as editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international journals. His current research is focused on the rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions and their molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nano-fertilizers and nanobiotechnology.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Microbial Management of Crop Salinity Stress: Mechanisms, Applications, and Prospects
Pages 1-25
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Adaptive Mechanisms of Plants Against Salt Stress and Salt Shock
Pages 27-47
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Molecular Approaches and Salt Tolerance Mechanisms in Leguminous Plants
Pages 49-67
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Crop Improvement Through Microbial Biotechnology: A Cross Talk
Pages 69-90
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Role of Phytohormones in Recuperating Salt Stress
Pages 91-104
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Salt Stress, Microbes, and Plant Interactions: Mechanisms and Molecular Approaches
- Book Subtitle
- Volume 2
- Editors
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- Mohd Sayeed Akhtar
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-8805-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-8805-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-8804-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-8807-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 300
- Number of Illustrations
- 11 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
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