Antioxidant Defense in Plants

Chapter 1. An overview of roles of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants in plant.- Chapter 2. Functional Characterization of the Antioxidant Enzymes in Plants Exposed to Environmental Stresses.- Chapter 3. Gene expression and role of antioxidant enzymes in crop plants under stress.- Chapter 4. Proteomic and Genomic Approaches for Antioxidant Enzymes-Mediated Defence Analyses in Higher Plants.- Chapter 5. Genetic Engineering Applications in Inducing Stress Tolerance in Plants through Antioxidants.- Chapter 6. Kinase mediated signaling cascades in plants abiotic stress physiology.- Chapter 7. Plant peroxidases: biomarkers of environmental stresses and signaling in plants.- Chapter 8. Molecular mechanisms of superoxide dismutase (SODs)-mediated defense in controlling oxidative stress in plants.- Chapter 9. Glutathione in higher plants: biosynthesis and physiological mechanisms during heat and drought-induced oxidative stress. Chapter 10. Role of Tocopherol in Conferring Abiotic StressTolerance in Plants.- Chapter 11. Plant glutathione transferases and their role in the mitigation of abiotic stresses.- Chapter 12. Role of ascorbic acid in alleviating abiotic stress in crop plants.- Chapter 13. CRISPR/Cas Mediated Genome Editing Technologies in Plants for Stress Resilience.- Chapter 14. Decrypting drought stress tolerance of crop plants via photosynthesis and antioxidative defense mechanisms.- Chapter 15. Role of Brassinosteroids (BRs) in modulating antioxidative defense mechanism in plants growing under abiotic and biotic stress conditions.- Chapter 16. Selenium-mediated regulation of antioxidant defense system and improved heavy metals tolerance in plants.- Chapter 17. Antioxidant defense system in plants against biotic stress.- Chapter 18. Revisiting the crucial role of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense in plant under abiotic stress.- Chapter 19. Plant life under changing environment: An exertion of environmental factors in oxidative stress

Dr. Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently an Assistant Professor there. He is the recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. After completing his doctorate, he has worked as Research Fellow at National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi and as Post-doctorate Fellow at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. Dr. Aftab also worked as Visiting Scientist at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is a member of various scientific associations from India and abroad.

He has edited 15 books with international publishers, co-authored several book chapters, and published over 75 research/review papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.

Dr Khalid Rehman Hakeem (PhD, FRSB) is presently working as Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completed his PhD (Botany; specialization in Plant Ecophysiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2011, he has worked as Assistant Prof. at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar for a short period. Later he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia and worked there as Post Doctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Prof.) from 2013-2016 respectively. He joined King Abdulaziz University in August 2016 and was promoted to professorship in 2019. Dr Hakeem has more than twelve years of teaching and research experience in Plant Eco-Physiology, Biotechnology & Molecular biology, Medicinal plant research, Plant-Microbe-soil