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Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 1 - Physiology and Biochemistry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 1 - Physiology and Biochemistry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Abiotic stress adversely affects crop production worldwide,
decreasing average yields for most of the crops to 50%. Among
various abiotic stresses affecting agricultural production, drought
stress is considered to be the main source of yield reduction
around the globe. Due to an increasing world population, drought
stress will lead to a serious food shortage by 2050. The situation
may become worse due to predicated global climate change that may
multiply the frequency and duration and severity of such abiotic
stresses. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve our
understanding on complex mechanisms of drought stress tolerance and
to develop modern varieties that are more resilient to drought
stress. Identification of the potential novel genes responsible for
drought tolerance in crop plants will contribute to understanding
the molecular mechanism of crop responses to drought stress. The
discovery of novel genes, the analysis of their expression patterns
in response to drought stress, and the determination of their
potential functions in drought stress adaptation will provide the
basis of effective engineering strategies to enhance crop drought
stress tolerance. Although the in-depth water stress tolerance
mechanisms is still unclear, it can be to some extent explained on
the basis of ion homeostasis mediated by stress adaptation
effectors, toxic radical scavenging, osmolyte biosynthesis, water
transport, and long distance signaling response coordination.
Importantly, complete elucidation of the physiological,
biochemical, and molecular mechanisms for drought stress,
perception, transduction, and tolerance is still a challenge to the
plant biologists. The findings presented in volume 1 call attention
to the physiological and biochemical modalities of drought stress
that influence crop productivity, whereas volume 2 summarizes our
current understanding on the molecular and genetic mechanisms of
drought stress resistance in plants.
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