Plant Perspectives to Global Climate Changes - Developing Climate-resilient Plants

Global climate change, increasing climate variability, and an increased incidence of extreme weather events affect every aspect of plant physiology. Extensive research on ecological and environmental plant physiology has provided mechanistic understanding of the survival, distribution, productivity, and abundance of plant species across the diverse climates of our planet. Advancing eco-physiological understanding and approaches to enhance plant responses to new environmental conditions is critical to developing meaningful high-throughput phenotyping tools and maintaining humankind's supply of goods and services as global climate change intensifies. Plant Perspectives to Global Climate Changes: Developing Climate-Resilient Plants integrates currently available information on the impact of the environment on functional and adaptive features of plants on the molecular, biochemical, physiological and whole plant levels. The book also provides a direction towards implementation of programs and practices that will enable sustainable production of crops, resilient to climatic alterations. This book will be beneficial to academics and researchers working on stress physiology, stress proteins, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering, and other fields of plant physiology. It will be of use to those involved in ecological studies and sustainable agriculture. --

List of contents

1. Climate change impact on plants: Plant responses and adaptations
2. Towards understanding abiotic stress physiological studies in plants: Conjunction of genomic and proteomic approaches
3. Co-overexpression of genes in plants for abiotic stress tolerance
4. Molecular investigation of plant-environment interaction at functional level
5. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular adaptation mechanisms of photosynthesis and respiration under challenging environments
6. Harnessing the potential of modern omics approaches to study plant biotic and abiotic stresses
7. Soil-plant interactions for agricultural sustainability under challenging climate change
8. Biological nitrification inhibition for sustainable crop production
9. Application of nanoparticles in developing resilience against abiotic stress in rice plant (Oryza sativa L.)
10. Physiological mechanisms and adaptation strategies of plants under nutrient deficiency and toxicity conditions
11. Genomics-based approaches to improve abiotic stress tolerance in plants: Present status and future prospects
12. Transcription factors involved in plant responses to heavy metal stress adaptation
13. The role of soil microorganisms in plant adaptation to abiotic stresses: Current scenario and future perspectives
14. Ecological aspects of the soil-water-plant-atmosphere system
15. Role of miRNAi technology and miRNAs in abiotic and biotic stress resilience
16. CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing technology for abiotic stress tolerance in crop plant
17. Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: Antioxidant defense studies in plants
18. Role of plant hormones in combating biotic stress in plants
19. CRISPR-mediated genome editing for developing climate-resilient monocot and dicot crops
20. Mechanism of temperature stress acclimation and the role of transporters in plants
21. Role of ß-aminobutyric acid in generating stress-tolerant and climate-resilient plants
22. Wild relatives of plants as sources for the development of abiotic stress tolerance in plants
23. Role of magnetopriming in alleviation of abiotic stress in plants

About the author

Tariq Aftab received his PhD degree in the Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently an Assistant Professor there. He received prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, a Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh and Government of India. He has worked as Visiting Scientist at IPK, Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, United States. He has edited 14 books with international publishers, including Elsevier Inc., Springer Nature, and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), co-authored several book chapters, and published over 65 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.Prof. (Dr.) Aryadeep Roychoudhury is currently serving as Professor in the Discipline of Life Sciences, School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Before joining IGNOU, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Post Graduate Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. Prof. Roychoudhury did B.Sc. (Honours) in Botany from Presidency College, Kolkata, and M.Sc. in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from University of Calcutta. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Science from Bose Institute, Kolkata under Jadavpur University in the area of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. He has been associated with the molecular regulation of late embryogenesis abundant genes and the basic leucine zipper group of transcription factors, governing salt tolerance in rice. His post doctoral research was based on translational research on transgenic rice with enhanced salt and drought tolerance. His current research interests include physiological and molecular responses and cell signaling of plants during diverse abiotic stresses including fluoride, heavy metals, salinity and drought. He holds 23 years of research experience in the concerned discipline. Prof. Roychoudhury has handled several government-funded projects on abiotic stress responses in rice and supervised five Ph.D. students as sole principal investigator. To date, he has published over 260 articles in peer- reviewed journals and chapters in books of international and national repute. He has already edited 14 books from reputed publishers and has also guest edited special issues in several renowned international journals. Prof. Roychoudhury is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2019, conferred by the International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, at the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. His name is included in the Stanford University’s List of World’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientists

Product details

• Authors: Tariq (EDT)/ Roychoudhury Aftab
• Assisted by: Tariq Aftab (Editor), Aftab Tariq (Editor), Aryadeep Roychoudhury (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780323856652
• ISBN: 978-0-323-85665-2
• No. of pages: 550
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences