Abiotic Stresses in Plants

✍ Scribed by A. Leone, C. Perrotta, B. Maresca (auth.), Luigi Sanità di Toppi, Barbara Pawlik-Skowrońska (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a valuable insight into how the area of plant adaptation to abiotic stresses has progressed through the application of the new technologies. The book consists of eight chapters written by outstanding scientists across the world, who carry out research at the cutting edge of their disciplines. The topics, addressed in up-to-date specific chapters, include effects and responses of plants to stresses caused by such factors as: 1) high temperature, 2) low temperature (chilling and freezing), 3) salt, 4) drought, 5) flooding, 6) heavy metals, 7) elevated carbon dioxide, 8) ozone.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress: Current Strategies and New Emergent Insights....Pages 1-22
Chilling and Freezing Stresses in Plants: Cellular Responses and Molecular Strategies for Adaptation....Pages 23-51
Salt Tolerance: Placing Advances in Molecular Genetics into a Physiological and Agronomic Context....Pages 53-69
Unravelling the Genetic Basis of Drought Tolerance in Crops....Pages 71-122
Anoxia: The Role of Carbohydrates in Cereal Germination....Pages 123-131
Response to Heavy Metals in Plants: A Molecular Approach....Pages 133-156
Plant Response to Elevated Carbon Dioxide....Pages 157-204
Ozone: A Novel Plant “Pathogen”....Pages 205-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-233