Emerging technologies and management of crop stress tolerance, Volume 1: Biological techniques
This book presents an overview of technologies used by scientists for improvement the crop production. The contributors explore the various roles of these technologies for the enhancement of crop productivity and inhibition of pathogenic bacteria that can cause disease. This resource provides a revi...
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2014
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Table of Contents:
- Genomic approaches and abiotic stress tolerance in plants / Bushra Rashid, Tayyab Husnain and Sheikh Riazuddin
- Metabolomics role in crop improvement / Saleha Resham, Fizza Akhter, Muhammad Ashraf and Alvina Gul Kazi
- Transcription factors and environmental stresses in plants / Loredana F. Ciarmiello, Pasqualina Woodrow, Pasquale Piccirillo, Antonio De Luca and Petronia Carillo
- Plant resistance under cold stress: metabolomics, proteomics and genomic approaches / Saiema Rasool, Shailza Singh, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Muneeb U. Rehman, M.M. Azooz, Helal Ahmad Lone and Parvaiz Ahmad
- Genetic engineering of crop plants for abiotic stress tolerance / Surbhi Goel and Bhawna Madan
- Bt crops: a sustainable approach towards biotic stress tolerance / Muhmood-ur-Rahman, Muhammad Qasim, Shazia Anwar Bukhari and Tayyaba Shaheen
- Climate changes and potential impacts on quality of fruit and vegetable crops / Leonora M. Mattos, Celso L. Moretti, Sumira Jan, Steven A. Sargent, Carlos Eduardo P. Lima and Mariana R. Fontenelle
- Interplays of plant circadian clock and abiotic stress response networks / Agnieszka Kielbowicz-Matuk and Jagoda Czarnecka
- Development of water saving techniques for sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) in the arid environment of Punjab, Pakistan / Abdul Gaffar Sagoo, Abdul Hannan, Muhammad Aslam, Ejaz Ahmed Khan, Amir Hussain, Imam Bakhsh, Muhammad Arif and Muhammad Waqas
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
- Modern tools for enhancing crop adaption to climatic changes / Kinza Waqar, Orooj Surriya, Fakiha Afzal, Ghulam Kubra, Shabina Iram, Muhammad Ashraf and Alvina Gul Kazi
- Interactions of nanoparticles with plants: an emerging prospective in the agriculture industry / Vani Mishra, Rohit K. Mishra, Anupam Dikshit and Avinash C. Pandey
- Role of miRNAs in abiotic and biotic stresses in plants / Syed Sarfraz Hussain and Bujun Shi
- Gene silencing: a novel cellular defense mechanism improving plant productivity under environmental stresses / Renu Bhardwaj, Puja Ohri, Ravinderjit Kaur, Amandeep Rattan, Dhriti Kapoor, Shagun Bali, Parminder Kaur, Anjali Khajuria and Ravinder Singh
- The role of carbohydrates in plant resistance to abiotic stresses / Marina S. Krasavina, Natalia A. Burmistrova and Galina N. Raldugina
- Role of glucosinolates in plant stress tolerance / P.S. Variyar, A. Banerjee, Jincy J. Akkarakaran and P. Suprasanna
- Plant responses to iron, manganese and zinc deficiency stress / Theocharis Chatzistahis
- Role of trace elements in alleviating environmental stress / Ghader Habibi
- Nutritional stress in dystrophic savanna soils of the orinoco basin: biological responses to low nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities / Danilo López-Hernández, Rosa Mary Hernández-Hernández, Ismael Hernández-Valencia and Marcia Toro
- Silicon and selenium: two vital trace elements that confer abiotic stress tolerance to plants / Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar and Masayuki Fujita
- Herbicides, pesticides and plant tolerance: an overview / Qaisar Mahmood, Muhammad Bilal and Sumira Jan
- Effects of humic materials on plant metabolism and agricultural productivity / Andrés Calderín García, Fernando Guridi Izquierdo and Ricardo Luis Louro Berbara