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Plant Growth Regulators - Signalling under Stress Conditions (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Plant Growth Regulators - Signalling under Stress Conditions (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Agriculture faces many challenges to fulfil the growing demand for
sustainable food production and ensure high-quality nutrition for a
rapidly growing population. To guarantee adequate food production,
it is necessary to increase the yield per area of arable land. A
method for achieving this goal has been the application of growth
regulators to modulate plant growth. Plant growth regulators (PGRs)
are substances in specific formulations which, when applied to
plants or seeds, have the capacity to promote, inhibit, or modify
physiological traits, development and/or stress responses. They
maintain proper balance between source and sink for enhancing crop
yield. PGRs are used to maximize productivity and quality, improve
consistency in production, and overcome genetic and abiotic
limitations to plant productivity. Suitable PGRs include hormones
such as cytokinins and auxins, and hormone-like compounds such as
mepiquat chloride and paclobutrazol. The use of PGRs in mainstream
agriculture has steadily increased within the last 20 years as
their benefits have become better understood by growers.
Unfortunately, the growth of the PGR market may be constrained by a
lack of innovation at a time when an increase in demand for new
products will require steady innovation and discovery of novel,
cost-competitive, specific, and effective PGRs. A plant
bio-stimulant is any substance or microorganism applied to plants
with the aim to enhance nutrition efficiency, abiotic stress
tolerance and/or crop quality traits, regardless of its nutrients
content. Apart from traditional PGRs, which are mostly plant
hormones, there are a number of substances/molecules such as nitric
oxide, methyl jasmonate, brassinosteroids, seaweed extracts,
strigolactones, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria etc. which act
as PGRs. These novel PGRs or bio-stimulants have been reported to
play important roles in stress responses and adaptation. They can
protect plants against various stresses, including water deficit,
chilling and high temperatures, salinity and flooding. This book
includes chapters ranging from sensing and signalling in plants to
translational research. In addition, the cross-talk operative in
plants in response to varied signals of biotic and abiotic nature
is also presented. Ultimately the objective of this book is to
present the current scenario and the future plan of action for the
management of stresses through traditional as well as novel PGRs.
We believe that this book will initiate and introduce readers to
state-of-the-art developments and trends in this field of study.
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