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Plants & Microbes in an Ever-Changing Environment (Hardcover)
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Plants & Microbes in an Ever-Changing Environment (Hardcover)
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The ever-increasing human population, rapid development of
industries and human introduction of different xenobiotic compounds
have contaminated the three major abiotic environmental factors
(i.e., air, water and soil) all over the world. Contamination of
these factors exerts adverse impacts on existing plants and
microbes. Microbes present in the air, water and soil are always
exposed to the ever-changing environment and exhibit tremendous
variations in their community structure. However, few environmental
alterations have positive and beneficial impacts on microbes.
Plants also show a number of detrimental symptoms such as reduced
growth, delayed fruit ripening, altered photosynthesis, rapid leaf
fall, early senescence and premature death of seedlings in response
to the disintegration of air, water and soil quality. So, the
survival of plants and microbes in these changing environments is
under serious threat. However, it is interesting how plants and
microbes, despite their extreme sensitivity to environmental
changes, are surviving in these continuously changing environments.
In this respect, a genomic study of plants and microbes may help to
understand how they have overcome previous environmental changes
because millions of years of natural selection have shaped their
genome. Moreover, this process of acclimation to environmental
stresses was further continued through the inheritance of the
altered genome of the offspring. In brief, present-day plants and
microbes have obtained the resistance power from their precursors,
which they have developed during the course of evolution. Hence,
this book entails the consequences of environmental changes in
plants and microbes, and the strategies adapted by them for
survival.
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