Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants

Dedication

Preface

The Editors

List of Contributors

Author Index

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1. Abiotic Tolerance and Crop Improvement

I. Stress Perception and Signal Transduction:

2. Sensors and Signal Transducers of Environmental Stress in Cyanobacteria

3. Stress Signaling I:The Role of Abscisic Acid

4. Stress Signaling II: Calcium Sensing and Signaling

5. Stress Signaling III: Reactive Oxygen Species

6. A Biotic or Abiotic Stress?

7. Protein Kinases and Phosphatases for Stress Signal Transduction in Plants

8. Chemical Root to Shoot Signaling via the Xylem under Drought

II.Stress Regulation of Gene Expression:

9. Abiotic Stress Responses: Complexities of Gene Expression

10. Promoters and Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress-responsive Gene Expression

11. Epigenetic Regulation: microRNA Chromatin Modeling

III. Physiology and Metabolism:

12. Ion Homeostasis

13. Glutathione Homeostasis: Crucial

14. Water Balance and the Regulation of Stomatal Movements

15. Responses to Macronutrient Deprivation

16. Osmolyte Regulation

17. Programmed Cell Death in Plant

IV. Overcoming Stress:

18. Breeding Efforts

19. Transgenic Approaches

20. Marker Assisted Breeding

21. Stress, Mutators, Mutations and Stress Resistance

22. Systems Biology of Abiotic Stress: the Elephant and the Blind Men

23. Global Change, Stress and Plant Productivity

Index

From the reviews:

"The book focuses on the 'physiological, molecular, and genomic' components of the problems and emphasizes various aspects of overcoming stress through breeding, transgenics, and the identification of markers associated with plant responses to stress. ... The quality of the 23 chapters is very high, and they include much very current information from some of the top practitioners in the field. Summing Up: Recommended. Academic libraries serving upper-division undergraduates and above." (W. Loescher, Choice, Vol. 48 (4), December, 2010)

"This book serves as a complete package on the basics and applications for abiotic stress response pathways in plants'. Indeed, at over 520 pages, with 23 predominantly multi-author chapters arranged in four parts, it is a considerable compendium of information and references ... . The book is aimed at 'late undergraduate through to beginning researchers' in many areas of science and technology. ... it is most suited to libraries, where it should find readers and will be useful." (David Lawlor, Annals of Botany, Vol. 107 (4), 2011)

"The book is an important and timely addition in view of the frightening global climate change 'issues and concerns'. ... we would like to congratulate the editors for bringing out this vitally useful volume. ... the book is informative and innovative. Researchers, teachers, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students would benefit from it. We recommended it to all those interested in plants and microbes, and their biology. ... We agree that this is an exciting addition in the field." (Prasanna Mohanty, S. Rajagopal and N. Raghuram, Current Science, Vol. 99 (9), November, 2010)

"The book presents a standard monograph in which individual chapters are written by different authors. The book is divided into four parts and contains altogether 23 chapters. ... the large amount of information contained in this book should be of interest for plant