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Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years. This
is the result of rapidly increasing human population, which, in
turn, has resulted in increased organic (petroleum) and inorganic
pollution on the biosphere. Due to this, we are now facing a number
of challenges to sustain life on earth. For example, the increased
organic and inorganic pollution in our environment is leading to
loss of biodiversity, degradation of environment and thus
ultimately causing food insecurity. In this situation, it is
imperative to keep updated ourselves with advances on the effects
of pollutants, tolerance mechanisms and the potential of different
plants and microbes in removing these pollutants from the
environment. For this purpose, we invited a number of scientists
worldwide to review the current scenario of the problems, current
development, and future prospects of the challenges and their
solutions in an International Conference on ''Plants and
Environmental Pollution'' held in KAYSERI, TURKEY from 6-11 July
2009. The output of this conference has been summarized in the form
of this book.
Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years. This
is the result of rapidly increasing human population, which, in
turn, has resulted in increased organic (petroleum) and inorganic
pollution on the biosphere. Due to this, we are now facing a number
of challenges to sustain life on earth. For example, the increased
organic and inorganic pollution in our environment is leading to
loss of biodiversity, degradation of environment and thus
ultimately causing food insecurity. In this situation, it is
imperative to keep updated ourselves with advances on the effects
of pollutants, tolerance mechanisms and the potential of different
plants and microbes in removing these pollutants from the
environment. For this purpose, we invited a number of scientists
worldwide to review the current scenario of the problems, current
development, and future prospects of the challenges and their
solutions in an International Conference on ''Plants and
Environmental Pollution'' held in KAYSERI, TURKEY from 6-11 July
2009. The output of this conference has been summarized in the form
of this book.
In the recent years, the looming food scarcity problem has
highlighted plant sciences as an emerging discipline committed to
devise new strategies for enhanced crop productivity. The major
factors causing food scarcity are biotic and abiotic stresses such
as plant pathogens, salinity, drought, flooding, nutrient
deficiency or toxicity which substantially limit crop productivity
world-wide. In this scenario, strategies should be adopted to
achieve maximum productivity and economic crop returns. In this
book we have mainly focused on physiological, biochemical,
molecular and genetic bases of crop development and related
approaches that can be used for crop improvement under
environmental adversaries. In addition, the adverse effects of
different biotic (diseases, pathogens etc.) and abiotic (salinity,
drought, high temperatures, metals etc) stresses on crop
development and the potential strategies to enhance crop
productivity under stressful environments are also discussed.
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