Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions

✍ Scribed by Gregory Graff, Gal Hochman, David Zilberman (auth.), Narendra Tuteja, Sarvajeet Singh Gill (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 401
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide. Thus, developing crop plants with the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses is a critical need which demands modern novel strategies for the thorough understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses.

Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions will serve as a cutting-edge resource for researchers and students alike who are studying plant abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement. The book presents the latest trends and developments in the field, including the impact of extreme events on salt tolerant forest species of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the overlapping horizons of salicylic acid in different stresses, and fast and reliable approaches to crop improvement through In Vitro haploid production.

Written by renowned experts and featuring useful illustrations and photographs, Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions is a concise and practical update on plant abiotic stress tolerance and crop improvement.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Research, Development, Commercialization, and Adoption of Drought and Stress-Tolerant Crops....Pages 1-33
Impact of Extreme Events on Salt-Tolerant Forest Species of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)....Pages 35-63
Greenhouse Gases Emission from Rice Paddy Ecosystem and their Management....Pages 65-89
Remote Sensing Applications to Infer Yield of Tea in a Part of Sri Lanka....Pages 91-111
Polyamines Contribution to the Improvement of Crop Plants Tolerance to Abiotic Stress....Pages 113-136
Overlapping Horizons of Salicylic Acid under Different Stresses....Pages 137-152
Genotoxic Stress, DNA Repair, and Crop Productivity....Pages 153-169
In Vitro Haploid Production—A Fast and Reliable Approach for Crop Improvement....Pages 171-212
Production of Abiotic Stress Tolerant Fertile Transgenic Plants using Androgenesis and Genetic Transformation Methods in Cereal Crops....Pages 213-229
Plant Diseases—Control and Remedy Through Nanotechnology....Pages 231-243
Nanobiotechnology: Scope and Potential for Crop Improvement....Pages 245-269
Role of Nematode-Trapping Fungi for Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions....Pages 271-283
Sugars as Antioxidants in Plants....Pages 285-307
Chromium Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants....Pages 309-332
Boron Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants....Pages 333-346
Arsenic Toxicity in Crop Plants: Approaches for Stress Resistance....Pages 347-360
Mechanism of Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants....Pages 361-385
Back Matter....Pages 378-378

✦ Subjects

Plant Sciences; Plant Biochemistry; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant Physiology; Plant Genetics & Genomics

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