Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants Physiological, Molecular and Genomic Foundation /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pareek, Ashwani (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sopory, S.K (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bohnert, Hans J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Govindjee (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Genetic engineering.; Agriculture.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Genetic Engineering.

Environmental insults such as extremes of temperature, extremes of water status as well as deteriorating soil conditions pose major threats to agriculture and food security. Employing contemporary tools and techniques from all branches of science, attempts are being made worldwide to understand how...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Stress Perception and Signal Transduction
• Abiotic Tolerance and Crop Improvement
• Sensors and Signal Transducers of Environmental Stress in Cyanobacteria
• Stress Signaling I: The Role of Abscisic Acid (ABA)
• Stress Signaling II: Calcium Sensing and Signaling
• Stress Signaling III: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)
• A Biotic or Abiotic Stress?
• Protein Kinases and Phosphatases for Stress Signal Transduction in Plants
• Nitrogen Source Influences Root to Shoot Signaling Under Drought
• Stress Regulation of Gene Expression
• Abiotic Stress Responses: Complexities in Gene Expression
• Promoters and Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress-Responsive Gene Expression
• Epigenetic Regulation: Chromatin Modeling and Small RNAs
• Physiology and Metabolism
• Ion Homeostasis
• Glutathione Homeostasis: Crucial for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
• Water Balance and the Regulation of Stomatal Movements
• Responses to Macronutrient Deprivation
• Osmolyte Regulation in Abiotic Stress
• Programmed Cell Death in Plants
• Overcoming Stress
• Varietal Improvement for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants: Special Reference to Salinity in Rice
• Transgenic Approaches
• Marker Assisted Breeding
• Stress, Mutators, Mutations and Stress Resistance
• Systems Biology of Abiotic Stress: The Elephant and the Blind Men
• Global Climate Change, Stress and Plant Productivity.