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Focuses on the menace of metal pollution on plants, crop plants,
pulses and vegetables Covers morphological, anatomical,
physiological and biochemical aspects Covers metal
hyper-accumulators (metallophytes) and bioremediation Alleviation
of metal stress by exogenous phytohormonal supply Includes heavy
metals' low dose stimulatory effects Focuses on 'omics' studies
i.e. genomics, metabolomics, ionomics, proteomics and
transcriptomics
In the present era, rapid industrialization and urbanization has
resulted in unwanted physiological, chemical, and biological
changes in the environment that have harmful effects on crop
quality and productivity. This situation is further worsened by the
growing demand for food due to an ever increasing population. This
forces plant scientists and agronomists to look forward for
alternative strategies to enhance crop production and produce
safer, healthier foods. Biotic and abiotic stresses are major
constraints to crop productivity and have become an important
challenge to agricultural scientists and agronomists due to the
fact that both stress factors considerably reduce agriculture
production worldwide per year. Silicon has various effects on plant
growth and development, as well as crop yields. It increases
photosynthetic activity, creates better disease resistance, reduces
heavy metal toxicity, improves nutrient imbalance, and enhances
drought tolerance. Silicon in Plants: Advances and Future Prospects
presents the beneficial effects of silicon in improving
productivity in plants and enhancing the capacity of plants to
resist stresses from environmental factors. It compiles recent
advances made worldwide in different leading laboratories
concerning the role of silicon in plant biology in order to make
these outcomes easily accessible to academicians, researchers,
industrialists, and students. Nineteen chapters summarize
information regarding the role of silicon in plants, their growth
and development, physiological and molecular responses, and
responses against the various abiotic stresses.
The population of the world continues to increase at an alarming
rate. The trouble linked with overpopulation ranges from food and
water scarcity to inadequacy of space for organisms. Overpopulation
is also linked with several other demographic hazards, for
instance, population blooming will not only result in exhaustion of
natural repositories, but it will also induce intense pressure on
the world economy. Today nanotechnology is often discussed as a key
discipline of research but it has positive and negative aspects.
Also, due to industrialization and ever-increasing population,
nano-pollution has been an emerging topic among scientists for
investigation and debate. Nanotechnology measures any substance on
a macromolecular scale, molecular scale, and even atomic scale.
More importantly, nanotechnology deals with the manipulation and
control of any matter at the dimension of a single nanometer.
Nanotechnology and nanoparticles (NPs) play important roles in
sustainable development and environmental challenges as well. NPs
possess both harmful and beneficial effects on the environment and
its harboring components, such as microbes, plants, and humans.
There are many beneficial impacts exerted by nanoparticles,
however, including their role in the management of waste water and
soil treatment, cosmetics, food packaging, agriculture,
biomedicines, pharmaceuticals, renewable energies, and
environmental remedies. Conversely, NPs also show some toxic
effects on microbes, plants, as well as human beings. It has been
reported that use of nanotechnological products leads to the more
accumulation of NPs in soil and aquatic ecosystems, which may be
detrimental for living organisms. Further, toxic effects of NPs on
microbes, invertebrates, and aquatic organisms including algae, has
been measured. Scientists have also reported on the negative impact
of NPs on plants by discussing the delivery of NPs in plants.
Additionally, scientists have also showed that NPs interact with
plant cells, which results in alterations in growth, biological
function, gene expression, and development. Thus, there has been
much investigated and reported on NPs and plant interactions in the
last decade. This book discusses the most recent work on NPs and
plant interaction, which should be useful for scientists working in
nanotechnology across a wide variety of disciplines.
The population of the world continues to increase at an alarming
rate. The trouble linked with overpopulation ranges from food and
water scarcity to inadequacy of space for organisms. Overpopulation
is also linked with several other demographic hazards, for
instance, population blooming will not only result in exhaustion of
natural repositories, but it will also induce intense pressure on
the world economy. Today nanotechnology is often discussed as a key
discipline of research but it has positive and negative aspects.
Also, due to industrialization and ever-increasing population,
nano-pollution has been an emerging topic among scientists for
investigation and debate. Nanotechnology measures any substance on
a macromolecular scale, molecular scale, and even atomic scale.
More importantly, nanotechnology deals with the manipulation and
control of any matter at the dimension of a single nanometer.
Nanotechnology and nanoparticles (NPs) play important roles in
sustainable development and environmental challenges as well. NPs
possess both harmful and beneficial effects on the environment and
its harboring components, such as microbes, plants, and humans.
There are many beneficial impacts exerted by nanoparticles,
however, including their role in the management of waste water and
soil treatment, cosmetics, food packaging, agriculture,
biomedicines, pharmaceuticals, renewable energies, and
environmental remedies. Conversely, NPs also show some toxic
effects on microbes, plants, as well as human beings. It has been
reported that use of nanotechnological products leads to the more
accumulation of NPs in soil and aquatic ecosystems, which may be
detrimental for living organisms. Further, toxic effects of NPs on
microbes, invertebrates, and aquatic organisms including algae, has
been measured. Scientists have also reported on the negative impact
of NPs on plants by discussing the delivery of NPs in plants.
Additionally, scientists have also showed that NPs interact with
plant cells, which results in alterations in growth, biological
function, gene expression, and development. Thus, there has been
much investigated and reported on NPs and plant interactions in the
last decade. This book discusses the most recent work on NPs and
plant interaction, which should be useful for scientists working in
nanotechnology across a wide variety of disciplines.
Hydrogen Sulfide in Plant Biology: Past and Present includes 17
chapters, with topics from cross-talk and lateral root development
under stress, to post-translational modifications and disease
resistance. With emerging research on the different roles and
applications of H2S, this title compiles the latest advances of
this key signaling molecule. The development of a plant requires
complex signaling of various molecules like H2S in order to achieve
regulated and proper development, hence hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has
emerged as an important signaling molecule that regulates nearly
each and every stage of a plant's lifecycle. Edited by leading
experts in the field, this is a must-read for scientists and
researchers interested in plant physiology, biochemistry and
ecology.
Abiotic Stress and Legumes: Tolerance and Management is the first
book to focus on the ability of legume plants to adapt effectively
to environmental challenges. Using the -omic approach, this book
takes a targeted approach to understanding the methods and means of
ensuring survival and maximizing the productivity of the legume
plant by improving tolerance to environmental /abiotic stress
factors including drought, temperature change, and other
challenges. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the
progress that has been made in identifying means of managing
abiotic stress effects, specifically in legumes, including the
development of several varieties which exhibit tolerance through
high yield using transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic and ionomic
approaches. Further, exogenous application of various stimulants
such as plant hormones, nutrients, sugars, and polyamines has
emerged as an alternative strategy to improve productivity under
these environmental challenges. Abiotic Stress and Legumes:
Tolerance and Management examines these emerging strategies and
serves as an important resource for researchers, academicians and
scientists, enhancing their knowledge and aiding further research.
Plant Life under Changing Environment: Responses and Management
presents the latest insights, reflecting the significant progress
that has been made in understanding plant responses to various
changing environmental impacts, as well as strategies for
alleviating their adverse effects, including abiotic stresses.
Growing from a focus on plants and their ability to respond, adapt,
and survive, Plant Life under Changing Environment: Responses and
Management addresses options for mitigating those responses to
ensure maximum health and growth. Researchers and advanced students
in environmental sciences, plant ecophysiology, biochemistry,
molecular biology, nano-pollution climate change, and soil
pollution will find this an important foundational resource.
Environmental stresses, such as heavy metals, drought, radiation,
salts, pesticides, temperature, etc. are major factors collectively
called abiotic stresses, which limit agricultural productivity.
Abiotic stress factors negatively influence the survival, biomass
production, and yield of staple food crops of up to 70%. In recent
years, much attention has been given for developing strategies to
alleviate the adverse effects of abiotic stresses on crops in order
to fulfill the food demand of increasing population. Chemical
application and agronomical crop management practices have been
used to alleviate abiotic stresses with some success. During the
last decade, extensive work has been carried out to understand
plant hormone-mediated enhancement in abiotic stress tolerance
using physiological, biochemical, genetic, molecular, and genomic
approaches for crop breeding and management. This book has complied
recent research on plant hormone mediated regulation of abiotic
stress tolerance in plants with special emphasis on crops. This
book consists of fourteen chapters dealing with recent research
made in the direction of plant hormone and abiotic stress tolerance
in crop plants. Chapter One deals with abiotic stress and crop
productivity. Chapters Two and Three deal with the role of
polyamines, ROS, and melatonin in the regulation of abiotic
stresses. Chapter Four extensively elaborates the significance of
the multigene family in the improvement of crops under stress
conditions. Chapters Five and Six deal with the interaction of
plant hormones and their subsequent impact on plant abiotic stress
tolerance. Chapter Seven, Eight and Nine comprehensively deal with
the role of abscisic acid and gibberellic acid signaling in the
regulation of abiotic stress tolerance in crops. Chapters Ten
through Thirteen describe the role of brassinosteroids cross talk,
interaction and signaling in the regulation of abiotic stress
tolerance in crops. Chapter Fourteen deals with the emerging role
of oxylipins in the regulation of abiotic stress in crops. Chapter
Fifteen deals with the role of jasmonic acid and salicylic acid
signaling in the regulation of abiotic stress tolerance. This book
has gathered recent information of plant hormone research and
abiotic stress tolerance in crops. We hope that this book will be
very useful for graduate and post graduate students and
researchers.
In the present era, rapid industrialization and urbanization has
resulted in unwanted physiological, chemical, and biological
changes in the environment that have harmful effects on crop
quality and productivity. This situation is further worsened by the
growing demand for food due to an ever increasing population. This
forces plant scientists and agronomists to look forward for
alternative strategies to enhance crop production and produce
safer, healthier foods. Biotic and abiotic stresses are major
constraints to crop productivity and have become an important
challenge to agricultural scientists and agronomists due to the
fact that both stress factors considerably reduce agriculture
production worldwide per year. Silicon has various effects on plant
growth and development, as well as crop yields. It increases
photosynthetic activity, creates better disease resistance, reduces
heavy metal toxicity, improves nutrient imbalance, and enhances
drought tolerance. Silicon in Plants: Advances and Future Prospects
presents the beneficial effects of silicon in improving
productivity in plants and enhancing the capacity of plants to
resist stresses from environmental factors. It compiles recent
advances made worldwide in different leading laboratories
concerning the role of silicon in plant biology in order to make
these outcomes easily accessible to academicians, researchers,
industrialists, and students. Nineteen chapters summarize
information regarding the role of silicon in plants, their growth
and development, physiological and molecular responses, and
responses against the various abiotic stresses.
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