Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants : Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance

"This new 3-volume set provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites so as to employ novel strategies to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Abiotic stresses such as drought, high salt, cold, heat, UV radiation, heavy metal pollution, etc., are increasingly responsible for restricting plant growth and agricultural production and are becoming more alarming due to threats from global climate change. To combat these threats, it is imperative to study the underlying mechanisms of stress tolerance from diverse metabolites and the biosynthesis pathways for metabolite production to maintain osmotic balance under diverse environmental stresses. This new book set, Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants, provides that understanding. Volume 1: Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses exclusively on the diverse secondary metabolites that play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions as well as their implications in enhancing tolerance mechanisms. The chapters in this section review and integrate the currently available information on the protective role rendered by a wide array of antioxidative secondary metabolites and their regulation during diverse environmental stress. Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance throws light on the different inorganic trace elements, including metal nanoparticles, that help to deal with various environmental stresses. While these elements at high level create considerable phytotoxicity and halt metabolic and enzymatic activity, they also promote growth and development in limited quantity, so that they have significant potential in revamping plant morphology and physiology under stressed conditions. Hence, optimum concentration management of these elements can help to mitigate world hunger and contribute toward sustainable agriculture and food security under challenging environments. Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses on the agronomic and biochemical approaches as well as biotechnological and high-throughput technologies, including the prospects of genetic engineering, epigenetics and the latest CRISPR/Cas technology, in generating stress-tolerant plants. The volume provides a clear road map for the implementation of techniques for improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants for better sustenance"-- Abiotic stresses such as drought, high salt, cold, heat, UV radiation, heavy metal pollution, etc., are increasingly responsible for restricting plant growth and agricultural production and are becoming more alarming due to threats from global climate change. To combat these threats, this new 3-volume set provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Volume 1: Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses exclusively on the diverse secondary metabolites that play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions as well as their implications for enhancing tolerance mechanisms. The book presents information on the protective role rendered by a wide array of antioxidative secondary metabolites and their regulation during diverse environmental stress. Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance throws light on the different inorganic trace elements, including metal nanoparticles, that help to deal with environmental stresses. While these elements at high level create considerable phytotoxicity and halt metabolic and enzymatic activity, they also promote growth and development in limited quantity, so that they have significant potential in revamping plant morphology and physiology under stressed conditions. Hence, optimum concentration management of these elements can help to mitigate world hunger and contribute toward sustainable agriculture and food security under challenging environments. Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses on the agronomic and biochemical approaches as well as biotechnological and high-throughput technologies, including the prospects of genetic engineering, epigenetics and the latest CRISPR/Cas technology, in generating stress-tolerant plants. The volume provides a clear roadmap for the implementation of techniques for improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants for better sustenance. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page About the Editor Table of Contents Contributors Abbreviations Preface Part I: Microorganism Application and Stress Tolerance 1. Soil Microorganisms and Nematodes for Bioremediation and Amelioration of Polluted Soils 2. Rhizospheric Microbial Inoculation in Developing Stress Tolerance 3. Role of Endophytes, Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria, and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Stress Tolerance Part II: Priming and Genetic Engineering 4. Role of Hydropriming and Magneto-Priming in Developing Stress Tolerance 5. Magneto-Priming: A Novel Technique Towards Improved Seed Germinability and Stress Responses: From Basics to Contemporary Advancements 6. Plant Breeding Approaches in Developing Stress Tolerance 7. Towards Engineering Smart Transcription Factors for Enhanced Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants 8. Genetics and Microarray in Environmental Stress Response 9. Small RNAs – The Big Players in Developing Salt-Resistant Plants Part III: Epigenetics and Omics Approaches 10. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Response to Environmental Stress 11. CRISPR/Cas and Its Potentiality as an Effective Tool in Understanding Environmental Stress Response 12. Epigenetics – The Molecular Tool in Understanding Abiotic Stress Response in Plants 13. Advances in Proteomics Research in Environmental Stress Response in Plants 14. Advances in Metabolomics Research in Environmental Stress Response in Plants Index