Physiological Mechanisms and Adaptation Strategies in Plants Under Changing Environment Volume 2 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ahmad, Parvaiz (Editor), Wani, Mohd Rafiq (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.

Abiotic stress has a detrimental impact on the living organisms in a specific environment and constitutes a major constraint to global agricultural production. The adverse environmental conditions that plants encounter during their life cycle not only disturb their metabolic reactions, but also hamp...

Table of Contents:

• Biochemical and Molecular Approaches for Drought Tolerance in Plants
• Heavy-Metal Attack on Freshwater Side: Physiological Defense Strategies of Macrophytes and Ecotoxicological Ops
• Secondary Metabolites and Environmental Stress in Plants: Biosynthesis, Regulation and Function
• Major Phytohormones under Abiotic Stress
• Nitric Oxide: Role in Plants under Abiotic Stress
• Brassinosteroids: Improving Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance
• Ethylene: Role in Plants under Environmental Stress
• Scenario of Climate Changes in the Context of Agriculture
• Importance of Protective Compounds in Stress Tolerance
• Growth Patterns of Tomato Plants Subjected to Two Non-Conventional Abiotic Stresses: UV-C Irradiations and Electric Fields
• Rhizobacteria: Restoration of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils
• Potassium and Sodium Transport Channels under NaCl Stress
• Jatropha curcas: An Overview.