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Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants - Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants - Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature,
drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide.
Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for
rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal
transduction pathways for abiotic stresses, light, several
phytohormones and pathogenesis have been elucidated. A significant
portion of plant genomes (most studies are Arabidopsis and rice
genome) encodes for proteins involves in signaling such as
receptor, sensors, kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors and
transporters/channels. Despite decades of physiological and
molecular effort, knowledge pertaining to how plants sense and
transduce low and high temperature, low-water availability
(drought), water-submergence and salinity signals is still a major
question before plant biologists. One major constraint hampering
our understanding of these signal transduction processes in plants
has been the lack or slow pace of application of molecular genomic
and genetics knowledge in the form of gene function. In the
post-genomic era, one of the major challenges is investigation and
understanding of multiple genes and gene families regulating a
particular physiological and developmental aspect of plant life
cycle. One of the important physiological processes is regulation
of stress response, which leads to adaptation or adjustment in
response to adverse stimuli. With the holistic understanding of the
signaling pathways involving not only one gene family but multiple
genes or gene families, plant biologists can lay a foundation for
designing and generating future crops that can withstand the higher
degree of environmental stresses (especially abiotic stresses,
which are the major cause of crop loss throughout the world)
without losing crop yield and productivity. Therefore, in this
proposed book, we intend to incorporate the contribution from
leading plant biologists to elucidate several aspects of stress
signaling by functional genomic approaches.
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