1st Edition
Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance
Abiotic stresses such as drought, high salt, cold, heat, UV radiation, heavy metal pollution, etc., are increasingly responsible for restricting plant growth and agricultural production and are becoming more alarming due to threats from global climate change. To combat these threats, this new 3-volume set provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
Volume 1: Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses exclusively on the diverse secondary metabolites that play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions as well as their implications for enhancing tolerance mechanisms. The book presents information on the protective role rendered by a wide array of antioxidative secondary metabolites and their regulation during diverse environmental stress.
Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance throws light on the different inorganic trace elements, including metal nanoparticles, that help to deal with environmental stresses. While these elements at high level create considerable phytotoxicity and halt metabolic and enzymatic activity, they also promote growth and development in limited quantity, so that they have significant potential in revamping plant morphology and physiology under stressed conditions. Hence, optimum concentration management of these elements can help to mitigate world hunger and contribute toward sustainable agriculture and food security under challenging environments.
Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses on the agronomic and biochemical approaches as well as biotechnological and high-throughput technologies, including the prospects of genetic engineering, epigenetics and the latest CRISPR/Cas technology, in generating stress-tolerant plants. The volume provides a clear roadmap for the implementation of techniques for improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants for better sustenance.
Part 1: Microorganism Application and Stress Tolerance
1. Soil Microorganisms and Nematodes for Bioremediation and Amelioration of Polluted Soils
Md. Basit Raza, Jyotirmaya Sahoo, Biswaranjan Behera, Ajin S Anil, Rahul Kumar Tiwari, and Milan Kumar Lal
2. Rhizospheric Microbial Inoculation in Developing Stress Tolerance
Suchismita Prusty, Monalisha Dasmohapatra, Sagar Maitra, and Ranjan Kumar Sahoo
3. Role of Endophytes, Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria, and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Stress Tolerance
Anuron Banerjee, Nirmalya Chakraborty, Krishnendu Acharya, and Nilanjan Chakraborty
Part 2: Priming and Genetic Engineering
4. Role of Hydropriming and Magneto Priming in Developing Stress Tolerance
Lekshmy Sathee, Meenakshi Thakur, Ravpreet Kaur, Sunita Kataria, Anjali Anand, Dalveer Singh, and Shailesh Tripathi
5. Magneto Priming: A Novel Technique towards Improved Seed Germinability and Stress Responses: From Basics to Contemporary Advancements
Kuntal Bera, Subir Ghosh, Sanjoy Sadhukhan, and Puspendu Dutta
6. Plant Breeding Approaches in Developing Stress Tolerance
Sami Ul-Allah, Asad Azeem, Ahmad Sher, Muhammad Ijaz, Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Naeem, and Imran Ullah
7. Towards Engineering Smart Transcription Factors for Enhanced Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Syed Sarfraz Hussain, Bushra Rasheed, Abdul Qayyum Rao, Ahmad Ali Shahid, and Bujun Shi
8. Genetics and Microarray in Environmental Stress Response
Robab Salami, Masoumeh Kordi, Nasser Delangiz, Behnam Asgari Lajayer, and Tess Astatkie
9. Small RNAs: The Big Players in Developing Salt-Resistant Plants
Anup Kumar Sarkar and Sanjoy Sadhukhan
Part 3: Epigenetics and Omics Approaches
10. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Response to Environmental Stress
Pooja Saraswat, Hunny Waswani, and Rajiv Ranjan
11. CRISPR/Cas and Its Potential as an Effective Tool in Understanding Environmental Stress Response
Deepu Pandita
12. Epigenetics: The Molecular Tool in Understanding Abiotic Stress Response in Plants
Kakan Ball and Sanjoy Sadhukhan
13. Advances in Proteomics Research in Environmental Stress Response in Plants
Kasinathan Rakkammal, P.S. Jeevan Ram, and Manikandan Ramesh
14. Advances in Metabolomics Research in Environmental Stress Response in Plants
Ankur Singh and Aryadeep Roychoudhury
Biography
Aryadeep Roychoudhury, PhD, has over 20 years of research experience in the field of abiotic stress responses in plants with perspectives from physiology, molecular biology, and cell signaling under diverse stress conditions. He currently is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College, India, and also handles several government-funded projects on abiotic stress responses in rice. To date, he has published many books, book chapters and over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a regular reviewer of articles in high-impact international journals, a life member of several scientific associations and societies, and the recipient of a Young Scientist Award 2019, conferred by the International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, at the University of Allahabad, India. His name is included in the Stanford University’s List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists.
