Osmolytes and Plants Acclimation to Changing Environment: Emerging Omics Technologies

The continual change in climatic conditions induces a series of adaptations in plants to suit the unfavorable conditions for sustainable agriculture. For sustainable agriculture, it is important to unravel the precise mechanism(s) that disturb the homeostatic equilibrium at cellular and molecular level and also to enhance understanding to build strategies for the tolerance of plants. Osmolytes have long been identified as pivotal abiotic stress busters because of their role in plants in overcoming extremely harsh environmental conditions. This edited compilation attempts to put forth the scattered knowledge on osmolytes and their role in abiotic stress tolerance together and disseminate as a package to deal with the problems of lower productivity under stressful environment. It will enhance the understanding on osmolytes function and bioengineering of plants for abiotic stress tolerance.

The book covers very interesting topics dealing with various osmolytes and the mechanistic approach for abiotic stress tolerance to pave the path of agricultural scientists, breeders for developing high yielding sustainable transgenic crops.

1. Osmolyte Accumulation and Implications in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- 2. Contribution of Osmolyte Accumulation to Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wild Plants Adapted to Different Stressful Environments.- 3. Salinity Tolerance: Growth, Mineral Nutrients and Roles of Organic Osmolytes – Case of Lygeum Spartum L. – A Review.- 4. Roles of Osmolytes in Plants Adaptation to Drought and Salinity.- 5. Glycine betaine: Role in shifting plants towards adaptation under extreme environments.- 6. Metabolic Engineering of Compatible Solute -Trehalose for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants.- 7. Polyamines: osmoprotectants in plant abiotic stress adaptation.- 8. Evaluating the Importance of Proline in Cadmium Tolerance and its Interaction with Phytohormones.- 9. Proline Accumulation in Plants: Roles in Stress Tolerance and Plant Development.