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This book provides an overview on plant innate immunity triggered by peptide elicitors. It explains how peptide signals provide protection against phytopathogens and can act as an eco-friendly crop protectant. The chapters in the book deal with identification and characterization of plant elicitor peptides and their receptors, understanding the process of defense activation conferred by peptide signals, methods of isolation and application. Various new techniques and future strategies are discussed for utilization of these immunity inducers. Molecular and functional characterization of the elicitors will be useful in the development of elicitation-based technology, including large scale production and commercialization.
This book serves as an essential resource for researchers and industries working in the field of physiology and biotic stress management of crop plants.
List of contents
1. Plant elicitor peptides as amplifiers of immune responses against biotic stressors.- 2. 2. Peptide elicitors for defense against abiotic stress.- 3. Elicitor peptide mediated signalling cascades during plant-pathogen interaction.- 4. Inceptin: Exploring its role as a peptide elicitor in plant defense mechanisms.- 5. Endogenous peptides involved in plant growth and development.- 6. Effector mediated defence mechanisms in plants against phytopathogens.- 7. Plants retaliating defense strategies against herbivores.- 8. Plant Elicitor Peptides: Mechanism of Action and Its Applications in Agriculture.- 9. Legume health: unveiling the potential of plant elicitor peptides.- 10. Harnessing Plant Innate Immunity for Improved Biomass Production in Bioenergy Crops.- 11. Exogenous elicitors as inducers of environmental stress tolerance in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop.- 12. Recent Advancement on Peptide Research and their Application in Eco-agriculture.- 13. Plant immunity inducers: Strategies to identify and isolate them to boost defense responses in plants.- 14. Deep Learning Approaches for Off-targets Prediction in CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing to Improve Resistant in Plants.- 15. Peps, Pathogens and Pests: Challenges and Opportunities for Usage of Pep Signaling in Sustainable Farming.
About the author
Dr. Shachi Singh is working as an assistant professor in botany at MMV Banaras Hindu University. She had completed her graduation and post-graduation in botany from Banaras Hindu University and did her master's in biotechnology from BITS, Pilani. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral research work from the Department of Biological Sciences, BITS, Pilani. She was granted UGC NET fellowship and CSIR- JRF and SRF fellowship, as well as young scientist award by DST-SERB. She has also received INSA visiting scientist award. She has published several papers in highly reputed journals. Currently, her research group is working on methods to enhance plant immunity by natural means.
Prof. Rajesh Mehrotra graduated from Banaras Hindu University with specialization in genetics and plant breeding. He completed his PhD in biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University while working at National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. He did his post-doctoral work at Graduate School of Bio studies, Kyoto University, Japan. His group has published more than 60 publications and has one American and one European patent. He is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, UK. He is the recipient of Prof V S Rao foundation, Dr C R Mitra best faculty award of BITS, Pilani, Dr Sarvepallai RadhaKrishnan distinguished Professor and researcher award and INSA Bilateral exchange award to visit University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has delivered thirty invited lectures.
