Molecular Response and Genetic Engineering for Stress in Plants, Volume 1

An exploration of climate challenges and near possible solution to improve yield, this edited book entitled “Molecular Response and Genetic Engineering for Stress in Plants, Volume 1: Abiotic stress” comprehensively and coherently reviews the different abiotic stress response mechanisms in plants with respect to the various aspects of rapidly growing omics techniques like genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and strategies through genetic engineering and molecular breeding for crop improvement. It provides a detailed examination of how genes and metabolites are modulated in plants in response to various stresses. The first volume covers the various abiotic stress response mechanisms in plants in the view of climate change and global food security.

Key Features:

• This book explains the different molecular mechanisms and genetic engineering strategies which have been developed and adopted to cope with consistent environmental changes and global climate change.

• It explores the latest developments concerning abiotic stress response at the molecular level for the improvement of crop quality and sustainable agriculture.

• It presents an exploration of the challenges and conceivable solutions to improve yields of the staple of food crops using data on agricultural sciences and omics technology.

• It discovers how the better understanding of molecular mechanisms of plant response to different stress would be used to improve the quantitative and qualitative features of crop plants and allied areas.

• At the end-of-chapter, there is an inclusion of problems and their solutions related to the respective chapter.

Preface
Acknowledgement
Editors biographies
List of contributors
1 Understanding environmental associated abiotic stress response in plants under changing climate
2 Metabolic engineering for understanding abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3 The molecular basis of mineral toxicity in plants
4 Mechanistic insight into understanding drought stress response in plants
5 Engineering salt tolerance in crops: ion transporters and compatible solutes
6 Cold stress: molecular insight and way forward
7 Unraveling the molecular and genetic bases of plant responses to heat stress
8 Oxidative stress responses in plants to abiotic stress tolerance
9 Potential impacts of ultraviolet-B radiation on crop plants and its consequences
10 Physiological and molecular mechanisms of submergence and waterlogging stress tolerance in crops
11 Understanding nitric oxide signaling: plant abiotic stress perspective
12 Possible role of osmolytes in enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in plants
13 Secondary metabolites and plant abiotic stress responses