Genetic Enhancement of Crops for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress: Mechanisms and Approaches, Vol. I

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rajpal, Vijay Rani (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sehgal, Deepmala (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kumar, Avinash (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Raina, S.N (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, 20
• Subjects: Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Agriculture.; Biotechnology.; Evolutionary biology.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Evolutionary Biology.

Genetic Enhancement of Crops for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress: Mechanisms and Approaches, Volume I provides a consolidated update of the approaches taken to deepen our understanding of plants' morphological, physiological and molecular responses to various abiotic stresses and progresses made in...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Functional Genomics Approach Towards Dissecting out Abiotic Stress Tolerance Trait in Plants; Sneh L. Singla-Pareek
• 2. Plant miRNAome: Cross Talk in Abiotic Stressful Times; P. Suprasanna
• 3. Epigenetic Response of Plants to Abiotic Stress: Nature, Consequences and Applications in Breeding; Manoj. K. Dhar
• 4. Effect of Drought Stress and Utility of Transcriptomics in Identification of Drought Tolerance Mechanisms in Maize; T. Nepolean
• 5. Physiological and Molecular Basis of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wheat; H.M. Mamrutha
• 6. Molecular Chaperones: Key Players of Abiotic Stress Response in Plants; A. Pareek
• 7. Role of Chromatin Assembly and Remodeling in Water Stress Responses in Plants; N. Asharaf
• 8. The 'Omics' Approach for Crop Improvement Against Drought Stress; D. Jain
• 9. Genomic Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; N.R. Yadav
• 10. Genomics of Arsenic Stress Tolerance in Plants; P.K. Trivedi
• 11. Phytohormones Regulating the Master Regulators of CBF Dependent Cold Stress Signaling Pathway; R. Deswal
• Index.