Exploring Plant Stress Tolerance A Metabolomics Approach

Preface

1. Plant Metabolomic Responses to Metalloid Stress: A Special Focus on As and Se Tolerance

Swati Hazra, Anupam Das and Arkabanee Mukherjee

2. Metabolomics for Heavy Metal Stress Responses and Tolerance in Plants

Hend Fouad, Rasha Fouad, Peter Jackson, and Elsayed A. Omer

3. Concept of Metabolic Fingerprinting

Rupshikha Nath, Sibashish Kityania, Rajat Nath, Deepa Nath, and Anupam Das Talukdar

4. Biochemical Dynamics in Plant-Insect Interaction: A Metabolomics Approach

Sukanya Sonowal, Kabyashree Buragohain, Ankita Gogoi, Nikha Borah, Ratul Nath, Bhaben Chowardhara, and Akbar Hossain

5. Plant Metabolome: Database, Dataset Processing Methods, and Application

Ashish Kumar and Md. Zishan Ansari

6. Metabolomics-Assisted Breeding for Development of Stress-Tolerant Crops

Ashish Kumar and Md. Zishan Ansari

7. Insight Into Metabolomics for Heavy Metal Stress Response and Tolerance in Plants

Nilofer Sheikh, Utsab Singha, Namita Devi, Dharmeswar Barhoi, and Sunayana Goswami

8. Plant-Pathogen Interactions: What Metabolomics Can Contribute

Sayanti Mandal

9. Metabolite Diversity and Its Function in Stress Responses and Tolerance

Amit Kumar Pradhan, Manabendra Nath, Umakanta Chowra, Uddipta Borthakur, Nibedita Sarma, Dikshit Goswami, Khirod Kalita, Bikash Kumar Kundu, Subrat Kakati, Zina Moni Shandilya, Preetom Regon, and Bhaben Tanti

10. Metabolomics for Heavy Metal Stress Responses and Tolerance in Plants: Cadmium and Arsenic

Proma Ghosh, Anwesha Chatterjee, and Harshata Pal

11. Metabolomics for High- and Low-Temperature Stress Responses and Tolerance in Plants

Shaimaa I. M. Elsayed, Farid M. Rohaim, Magdi T. Abdelhamid, and Elsayed A. Omer

12. Metabolomics for Heavy Metal Stress Responses and Tolerance in Plants

Nikha Borah, Ankita Gogoi, Kabyashree Buragohain, Sukanya Sonowal, Ratul Nath, L. R. Saikia, Bhaben Chowardhara, and Akbar Hossain

13. Analytical Methods for Metabolomics: Mass Spectrometry

Ahmed H. El-Desoky, Ahmed M. Taweela, Kamel Mahmoud, and Elsayed A. Omer

14. Plant Metabolome Databases

Shabana Begum, Sibashish Kityania, Rajat Nath, Deepa Nath, Pranab Behari Mazumder, and Anupam Das Talukdar

15. Metabolomics Approaches to Regulating ROS in Plants

Abdul Mukit and Sanjeev Kumar

16. Metabolomics of Plant-Insect Interactions

Usman Arif, Rabiah Ashraf, Hammad Ahmed, Misbah Saleem, and Allah Bakhsh

17. Metabolomic Approaches to Regulate Reactive Oxygen Species: Unveiling Novel Insights for Plant Stress Tolerance

Kabyashree Buragohain, Ratul Nath, Dulumoni Tamuly, Jay Prakash Awasthi, Bedabrata Saha, and Bhaben Chowardhara

Index

Biography

Shuvasish Choudhury, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Plant Stress Biology in the Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics at Assam University, Silchar, India. His research areas include plant stress biology and plant metabolomics. He has published more than 80 research papers and articles  in international journals of repute indexed by Scopus and Web of Science as well as several book chapters and edited books by reputed international publishing houses. He is also an acting Associate Editor for Plant Abiotic Stress section of Frontiers in Plant Science, Switzerland. He has received Young Botanist Award in 2010 from the Indian Botanical Society, India. He was awarded with Fast Track Young Scientist by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and Overseas Associateship. He has successfully completed research projects funded by Indian governmental agencies. His work has been cited more than 3,200 times, per Google Scholar, and over 1900 times, per Scopus. His current research includes biochemistry and metabolomics of abiotic stress in plants, salinity stress, nutrient management strategies for abiotic stress resilience in crops, conversion of waste bioresources to biochar, and climate change impact on agriculture.

Debojyoti Moulick, PhD, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Assam University, Silchar, India. In 2018, he earned a prestigious Research Associateship (DBT-RA) award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc-Bangalore) and Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. Dr. Moulick has gathered extensive experience in biomonitoring, seed priming technology and phytotoxicity, grain quality analysis, etc., in soil-water-crop agroecosystems. In 2018, His research work was recognized by the Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) in Vigyan Prasar (India Science Wire) and several media houses as a breakthrough in proposing an alternative, cheap, and farmer-friendly mitigation option for minimizing arsenic-induced phytotoxicity and transmission through rice plant and grain respectively. To date, he has reviewed over 250 papers for more than 50 international publication houses and edited a book (CRC Press). He is an editorial board member of BMC Plant Biology (Springer Nature) and Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (Wiley). He has published over 37 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals and more than 26 book chapters published by globally reputed publication houses. He was awarded his MPhil and PhD in Environmental Science by University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, PhD, is a Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was formerly an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship. Prof. Hasanuzzaman has over 300 Scopus-indexed publications, with 250 of them indexed in the Web of Science. He is an editor and a reviewer for more than 80 peer-reviewed international journals and the recipient of Publons Peer Review Awards (2017, 2018, and 2019). He is acting as Associate Editor for various journals, including Plant Signaling & Behavior (Taylor and Francis), Frontiers in Plant Science (Switzerland), Phyton (Tech Science Press, USA), and Stresses (MDPI, Switzerland). He is also an Academic Editor of PeerJ (USA). He is a member of the editorial board of many journals as well. He has received many prestigious awards and is a fellow and member of various prestigious societies as well.