Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions

Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide. Thus, developing crop plants with the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses is a critical need which demands modern novel strategies for the thorough understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses.

Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions will serve as a cutting-edge resource for researchers and students alike who are studying plant abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement. The book presents the latest trends and developments in the field, including the impact of extreme events on salt tolerant forest species of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the overlapping horizons of salicylic acid in different stresses, and fast and reliable approaches to crop improvement through In Vitro haploid production.

Writtenby renowned experts and featuring useful illustrations and photographs, Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions is a concise and practical update on plant abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement.

List of contents

The Research, Development, Commercialization, and Adoption of Drought and Stress Tolerant Crops.- Impact of Extreme Events on Salt Tolerant Forest Species of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (India).- Greenhouse Gases Emission from Rice Paddy Ecosystem and their Management.- Remote Sensing Applications to Infer Yield of Tea in a Part of Sri Lanka.- Polyamines Contribution to the Improvement of Crop Plants Tolerance to Abiotic Stress.- Overlapping Horizons of Salicylic Acid in Different Stresses.- Genotoxic Stress, DNA Repair and Crop Productivity.- In Vitro Haploid Production - A Fast and Reliable Approach for Crop Improvement.- Production of Abiotic Stress Tolerant Fertile Transgenic Plants using Androgenesis and Genetic Transformation Methods in Cereal Crops.- Plant Diseases - Control and Remedy through Nanotechnology.- Nanobiotechnology: Scope and potential for crop improvement.- Role of Nematode Trapping Fungi for Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions.- Sugars As Antioxidants in Plants.- Chromium Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants.- Boron Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants.- Arsenic Toxicity in Crop Plants: Approaches for Stress Resistance.- Mechanism of Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants.

About the author

Dr. Narendra Tuteja did his M.Sc., Ph.D and D.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Lucknow University in 1977, 1982 and 2008, respectively. He is fellow of the Academies of Sciences: FNASc. (2003), FNA (2007), FASc. (2009) and FNESA (2009). Dr. Tuteja has made major contributions in the field of plant DNA replication and abiotic stress signal transduction, especially in isolating novel DNA/RNA helicases and several components of calcium and G-proteins signaling pathways. Initially he made pioneer contributions in isolation and characterization of large number of helicases from human cells while he was at ICGEB Trieste and published several papers in high impact journals including EMBO J. and Nucleic Acids Research. From India he has cloned the first plant helicase (Plant J. 2000) and presented the first direct evidence for a novel role of a pea DNA helicase (PNAS, USA, 2005) in salinity stress tolerance and pea heterotrimeric G-proteins (Plant J. 2007) in salinity and heat stress tolerance. Dr. Tuteja has reported the first direct evidence in plant that PLC functions as an effector for Ga subunit of G-proteins. All the above work has received extensive coverage in many journals, including Nature Biotechnology, and bulletins all over the world. His group has also discovered novel substrate (pea CBL) for pea CIPK (FEBS J. 2006). He has already developed the salinity tolerant tobacco and rice plants without affecting yield. Recently, few new high salinity stress tolerant genes (e.g. Lectin receptor like kinase, Chlorophyll a/b binding protein and Ribosomal L30E) have been isolated from Pisum sativum and have been shown to confer high salinity stress tolerance in bacteria and plant (Glycoconjugate J. 2010; Plant Signal. Behav. 2010). Recently, very high salinity stress tolerant genes from fungus Piriformospora indica have been isolated and their functional validation in fungus and plants is in progress. Overall, Dr. Tuteja's research uncovers three new pathways to plant abiotic stress tolerance. His results are an important success and indicate the potential for improving crop production at sub-optimal conditions.§Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill did his B.Sc. (1998) from Kanpur University and M.Sc. (2001, Gold Medalist), M. Phil. (2003) and Ph.D (2009) from Aligarh Muslim University.

Dr. Gill has several research papers, review articles and book chapters to his credit in the journals of national and international repute and in edited books. He was awarded Junior Scientist of the year award by National Environmental Science Academy New Delhi in 2008. Presently with Dr. Tuteja, Dr. Gill is working on heterotrimeric G proteins and plant DNA helicases to uncover the abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in rice. The transgenic plants overexpressing heterotrimeric G proteins and plant DNA helicases may be important for improving crop production at sub-optimal conditions.

Summary

Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide. Thus, developing crop plants with the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses is a critical need which demands modern novel strategies for the thorough understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses.
 
Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions
 will serve as a cutting-edge resource for researchers and students alike who are studying plant abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement. The book presents the latest trends and developments in the field, including the impact of extreme events on salt tolerant forest species of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the overlapping horizons of salicylic acid in different stresses, and fast and reliable approaches to crop improvement through
In Vitro
haploid production.

 

Writtenby renowned experts and featuring useful illustrations and photographs, 
Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions
 is a concise and practical update on plant abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sarvajeet S. Gill (Editor), Sarvajeet Singh Gill (Editor), Singh Gill (Editor), Singh Gill (Editor), Narendr Tuteja (Editor), Narendra Tuteja (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2012
• EAN: 9781461446323
• ISBN: 978-1-4614-4632-3
• No. of pages: 394
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 731 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 394 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; B, Botany, biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Science, Plant Sciences, Genetics (non-medical), Plant Genetics, Plant anatomy, Plant Development, Plant Anatomy/Development, Developmental biology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Abiotic Stress;Genomics;Omics