Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Apart from biotic stress caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses such as extremes in temperature, drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation which all have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield. However, certain plant species and ecotypes have developed various mechanisms to adapt to such stress conditions. Recent advances in the understanding of these abiotic stress responses provided the impetus for compiling up-to-date reviews discussing all relevant topics in abiotic stress signaling of plants in a single volume. Topical reviews were prepared by selected experts and contain an introduction, discussion of the state of the art and important future tasks of the particular fields.

List of contents

Introduction.
- Molecular Responses of Higher Plants to Dehydration.
- Abscisic Acid Signalling.
- Plant Responses to Heat Stress.
- Sensors of Abiotic Stress in Synechocystis.
- Oxidative Stress Signalling.
- Signal Transduction in Plant Cold Acclimation.
- Heavy Metal Signalling in Plants: Linking Cellular and Organismic Responses.
- Molecular Genetics of Genotoxic Stress Signalling in Plants.
- Plant Salt Tolerance.
- Transcriptome Analysis in Abiotic Stress Conditions in Higher Plants.

Summary

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Apart from biotic stress caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses such as extremes in temperature, drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation which all have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield. However, certain plant species and ecotypes have developed various mechanisms to adapt to such stress conditions. Recent advances in the understanding of these abiotic stress responses provided the impetus for compiling up-to-date reviews discussing all relevant topics in abiotic stress signaling of plants in a single volume. Topical reviews were prepared by selected experts and contain an introduction, discussion of the state of the art and important future tasks of the particular fields.

Product details

• Assisted by: H. Hirt (Editor), Heriber Hirt (Editor), Heribert Hirt (Editor), Shinozaki (Editor), Shinozaki (Editor), K. Shinozaki (Editor), Kazuo Shinozaki (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2003
• EAN: 9783540200376
• ISBN: 978-3-540-20037-6
• No. of pages: 302
• Weight: 585 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 302 p.
• Series: Topics in Current Genetics; Topics in Current Genetics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Biotechnologie, C, Pflanzenbiologie, Agrarwissenschaften, Genetik (nicht-medizinisch), Plants, TEMPERATURE, Botany, biotechnology, Agriculture, RADIATION, Plant Physiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural science, Plant Science, Plant Sciences, Genetics (non-medical), Plant Genetics, Plant Genetics and Genomics, stress conditions, salinity, plant growth, plant pathogens