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Heat Shock Proteins and Plants provides the most up-to-date and concise reviews and progress on the role of heat shock proteins in plant biology, structure and function and is subdivided into chapters focused on Small Plant HSPs (Part I), Larger Plant HSPs (Part II) and HSPs for Therapeutic Gain (Part III). This book is written by eminent leaders and experts from around the world and is an important reference book and a must-read for undergraduate, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of Agriculture, Botany, Crop Research, Plant Genetics and Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Drug Development and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
List of contents
Preface. -Part I: Small Plant Heat Shock Proteins.- 1 Small Heat Shock Proteins: Emerging Roles in Seed Vigor and Longevity, Harmeet Kaur, Bhanu Prakash Petla and Manoj Majee.- 2 Plant Small Heat Shock Proteins and its Interations with Biotic Stress, Valéria Stefania Lopes-Caitar, Suellen Mika Hishinuma Silva and Francismar Corrêa Marcelino-Guimaraes.- 3 Small Heat Shock Proteins, a Key Player in Grass Plant Thermotolerance, Kehua Wang.- 4 Induction of Heat Shock Proteins During the Bud Dormancy Stage in Woody Fruit Plants, Yoshihiro Takemura and Fumio Tamura.- 5 Evolution Canyon, Eviatar Nevo and Yang Zujun.- 6 Insights into the Mechanism of Heat Shock Mitigation Through Protein Repair, Recycling and Degradation, Rashid Mehmood Rana, Muhammad Ammar Khan, Muhammad Kausar Nawaz Shah, Zulfiqar Ali and Hongsheng Zhang.- Part II: Large Plant Heat Shock Proteins.- 7 Plant Stress Response: HSP70 in the Spotlight, Sanghamitra Raha, Doel Ray, Anupama Ghosh and Soumyajit Banerjee Mustafi.-8 The Role of Plant 90-kDa Heat Shock Protein in Plant Immunity, Marina Clemente.- 9 Chloroplasts HSP70B and HSP90C as Markers for Oxidative Stress, Stephanie Chankova and N.P. Yurina.- 10 The Involvement of HSP70 and HSP90 in Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Infection in Tomato Plants and Insect Vectors, Rena Gorovits, Yule Liu and Henryk Czosnek.- Part III: Heat Shock Proteins and Plant Therapeutics.- 11 ADAPTOGENS: Evidence-Based Effects and Recent Achievements in Elucidation of Molecular Mechanisms of Stress-Protection, Punit Kaur and Alexzander Asea.- 12 Heat Shock Proteins and Phytochemicals: Role in Human Health and Disease, Xinyu Wang, Srujana Rayalam and Vishakha Bhave.- 13 Plant Extracts and Animal Heat Shock Proteins in Aging, Sam Schriner.- 14 Molecular Chaperones and HSPs in Sugarcane and Eucalyptus, Carlos H. I. Ramos and Conrado de Campos Gonçalves.- 15 Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Improving Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants, Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy, Thammineni Chakradhar, Ramesha A. Reddy, Srikrishna Mahanty and Malireddy K. Reddy.- 16 NGS-Based Expression Profiling of HSP Genes During Cold and Freeze Stress in Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.), P. C. Sharma and Saurabh Chaudhary.- 17 Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Heat Shock Protein (HSP) Gene Expression, Yuanyuan Ren and Yan Zhu.- Index.
Summary
Heat Shock Proteins and Plants provides the most up-to-date and concise reviews and progress on the role of heat shock proteins in plant biology, structure and function and is subdivided into chapters focused on Small Plant HSPs (Part I), Larger Plant HSPs (Part II) and HSPs for Therapeutic Gain (Part III). This book is written by eminent leaders and experts from around the world and is an important reference book and a must-read for undergraduate, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of Agriculture, Botany, Crop Research, Plant Genetics and Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Drug Development and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
