Plant Adaptation Strategies in Changing Environment

✍ Scribed by Vertika Shukla,Sanjeev Kumar,Narendra Kumar (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 390
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the crucial aspects of plant adaptation strategies in higher as well as lower plant groups. Stress induced by changing environmental conditions disrupts or alter various physiological and metabolic processes in organisms, however, plants have evolved various defence strategies to cope with external perturbations.

The book discusses speciation changes in response to extreme ecological conditions such as cold, heat, aridity, salinity, altitude, incidental UV radiation and high light intensity, which are particularly relevant in the current scenario of global warming. It also explores the effects of human activities and emission of phytotoxic gases.

Further, it describes the overall adaptation strategies and the multifaceted mechanisms involved (integrated complex mechanism), ranging from morphological to molecular alterations, focusing on plants’ capabilities to create an inner environment to survive the altered or extreme conditions.

This book is a valuable tool for graduate and research students, as well as for anyone working on or interested in adaptation strategies in plants.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Adaptation of Lichens to Extreme Conditions (Richard A. Armstrong)....Pages 1-27
Adaptive Mechanisms of Desiccation Tolerance in Resurrection Plants (Farah Deeba, Vivek Pandey)....Pages 29-75
Dehydration and Freezing Resistance of Lichenized Fungi (H. Harańczyk, A. Casanova-Katny, M. Olech, K. Strzałka)....Pages 77-102
Adaptation in Algae to Environmental Stress and Ecological Conditions (Sanjeeva Nayaka, Kiran Toppo, Sushma Verma)....Pages 103-115
Biochemical and Molecular Responses in Higher Plants Under Salt Stress (Neerja Srivastava)....Pages 117-151
Biochar Mitigates Salinity Stress in Plants (Anju Patel, Puja Khare, D. D. Patra)....Pages 153-182
Fly Ash-Induced Metabolic Adaptations in Three Ferns (Alka Kumari)....Pages 183-199
The Multiple Properties of Some of the Lichenized Ascomycetes: Biological Activity and Active Metabolites (Valery M. Dembitsky)....Pages 201-234
Metabolic Profiling and Its Plausible Environmental Significance in a Common Himalayan Lichen (Vertika Shukla, Ankita Asati, Devendra K. Patel, Manoj Semwal, Narendra Kumar, Dalip K. Upreti)....Pages 235-251
Heavy Metal Tolerance in Crop Plants: Physiological and Biochemical Aspects (Reshu Chauhan, Surabhi Awasthi, Amit Pal Singh, Sudhakar Srivastava, Veena Pande, Rudra Deo Tripathi et al.)....Pages 253-267
Plant Adaptation to Recalcitrant Chemicals (Hina Khatoon, Apourv Pant, J. P. N. Rai)....Pages 269-290
Plant Growth Under Stress Conditions: Boon or Bane ( Poonam, Shamshad Ahmad, Narendra Kumar, Paromita Chakraborty, Richa Kothari)....Pages 291-313
Adaptation Strategies of Plants Against Common Inorganic Pollutants and Metals (Dhananjay Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Vertika Shukla, Narendra Kumar)....Pages 315-328
Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Environmental Policy (Ravindra Prasad, Sanjeev Kumar, Anuj Kumar Yadav, Shailender Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Ritu Singh et al.)....Pages 329-345
Nitric Oxide (NO) and Physio-biochemical Adaptation in Plants Against Stress (Arun Kumar Maurya, Anita Rani)....Pages 347-386

✦ Subjects

Plant Sciences

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