Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

"The dynamic and expanding knowledge of environmental stresses and their effects on plants and crops have resulted in the compilation of a large volume of information in the last ten years since the publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress. With 90 percent new material and a new organization that reflects this increased knowledge base, this new edition, like the first two, provides comprehensive and complete coverage of the issues on stress imposed on plants and crops. Accessibility of knowledge is among the most critical of factors involved with plant/crop stress problems. Without due consideration of all the factors contributing to a specific plant/crop stress problem, it is unlikely that a permanent solution can be found. Facilitating the accessibility of the desired information, the volume is divided into ten sections. Each section consists of one or more chapters that discuss as many aspects of stress as possible. While many references cover soil salinity, sodicity, specific plant/crop salt and water stress, pollution, and other environmental stresses, they exist relatively in isolation, focusing mainly on one specific topic. Prepared with input from more than a hundred contributors from twenty seven countries, this book combines information on these interrelated areas into a single resource. Packed with illustrations, figures, and tables, covering plant/crop stress problems from the soil to the atmosphere, this book puts this expanded environmental stressors knowledge base within easy reach."--Publisher's description. Read more... Content: Soil salinity and sodicity as particular plant/crop stress factors / Mohammad Pessarakli and I. Szabolcs -- Soil salinity development, classification, assessment, and management in irrigated agriculture / Shabbir A. Shahid and Khalil ur Rahman -- Soil salinization and management options for sustainable crop production / Donald L. Suarez -- Influence of sodium on soils in humid regions / Rafif K. Srour, Louis M. McDonald, V.P. (Bill) Evangelou -- Oxidative stress and antioxidative defense systems in plants growing under abiotic stresses / Pallavi Sharma, Ambuj Bhushan Jha, and Rama Shanker Dubey -- Antioxidant protection during abiotic stresses / Dagmar Procházková and Nad'a Wilhelmová -- Biochemical mechanisms for the maintenance of oxidative stress under control in plants / Diego G. Arias ... [et al.] -- Plant hormone functions in abiotic and biotic stress responses / Radomíra Vanková -- Role of proline in plant response to drought and salinity / Bruria Heuer -- Role of dehydrins in plant stress response / Klára Kosová, Ilja Tom Prášil and Pavel Vítámvás -- Behavior of water in plants at low and ultralow temperatures / Jiří Zámečník and Miloš Faltus -- Germination of seeds and propagules under salt stress / Abdul Wahid ... [et al.] -- Response of crop plants to nitrogen stress: opportunites to increase nitrogen use efficiency / Jagadish Rane, Manabu Ishitani and Idupulapati M. Rao -- Photosynthesis and light stress in a model plant: role of chloroplast transporters / Cornelia Spetea and Benoît Schoefs -- Photosynthetic pigment apparatus in Northern plants / Tamara Golovko ... [et al.] -- Modifications of the carotenoid metabolism in plastids: a response to stress conditions / Pascale Moulin, Yves Lemoine, and Benoît Schoefs -- Thermoluminescence study of photosystem II activity in resurrection plant Haberlea rhodopensis during desiccation / Liliana T. Maslenkova ... [et al.] -- Carbon metabolism and plant stress / Carlos M. Figueroa, Alberto A. Iglesias, and Florencio E. Podestá -- Protein synthesis by plants under stressful conditions / Pallavi Sharma and Rama Shanker Dubey -- Heat shock proteins and acquisitions of thermotolerance in plants / Saaimatul Huq and Hitoshi Nakamoto -- Effect of low temperature on the structure of plant cells: structural, biochemical, and molecular aspects / L'udmila Slováková ... [et al.] -- Effects of UV-B radiation on plants: molecular mechanisms involved in UV-B responses / Brian R. Jordan -- Effect of high temperature and UV-A radiation on photosystem II / E.L. Apostoova and A.G. Dobrikova -- Plant responses to toxic metal stress / Elena Masarovičová, Katarína Král'ová and František Šeršeň -- Heavy metal pollution: damage and defense strategies in plants / Flavia Navari-Izzo and Nicoletta Rascio -- Heavy metals and plastid metabolism / Katalin Solymosi and Martine Bertrand -- Plant responses to cadmium and mercury stress / Elena Garmash, Svetlana Skugoreva, and Tamara Golovko -- Stress in plants and crops induced by parasitic weeds / Andrea Cavalieri and Asghar Heydari -- Involvement of insect pests in plant and crop stress / Stefano Speranzo ... [et al.] -- Stress in plants and crops induced by herbicide-mediated alteration in the population and activity of root-associated microorganisms / Asghar Heydari and Iraj J. Misaghi -- Stress in plants and crops induced by fungal pathogens / Asghar Heydari and Giorgio M. Balestra -- Genetic factors affecting abiotic stress tolerance in crops / Arun Kumar Joshi -- Genetic improvement of cold hardiness in bermudagrass / Yanqi Wu and Jeffrey A. Anderson -- Candidate gene expression involved in plant drought resistance / Yiwei Jiang and Ying Wang -- Responses of green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in terms of dry matter production, nitrogen uptake, and water absorption under salt-stress conditions / Mohammad Pessarakli -- Physiology and molecular biology of the effects of salinity on rice / R.K. Singh and T.J. Flowers -- Landscape under water-stress conditions / Atif Riaz -- Turfgrass nutrient management under stresses: a part of integrated stress management / Haibo Liu ... [et al.] -- Nutrient management of golf course putting greens under stresses / Haibo Liu ... [et al.] -- Plant biomass and stem juice of the C4 sugarcane at elevated growth CO2 and temperature / Joseph C.V. Vu amd Leon H. Allen Jr. -- Improving crop resistance to abiotic stresses through seed invigoration / Muhammad Farooq ... [et al.] -- Plant stress physiology: physiological and biochemical strageties allowing plants/crops to thrive under ionic stress / Hans-Werner Koyro ... [et al.] -- Role of Acacia ampliceps in managing salt-affected lands / Nico Marcar ... [et al.] -- Adaptive strategies of tropical forage grasses to low phosphorus stress: the case of brachiaria grasses / Annabé E. Louw-Gaume ... [et al.] -- Forgotten link in improving crop salt tolerance under brackish irrigation: lateral soil salinity gradients around roots / Uwe Schleiff -- Improving crop production on saline soils in arid regions: do we need a different approach to develop and select plants for these regions? / Shafqat Farooq and F. Azam -- Salinity-induced enhancement of horticultural crop quality / Catherine M. Grieve. Abstract: "The dynamic and expanding knowledge of environmental stresses and their effects on plants and crops have resulted in the compilation of a large volume of information in the last ten years since the publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress. With 90 percent new material and a new organization that reflects this increased knowledge base, this new edition, like the first two, provides comprehensive and complete coverage of the issues on stress imposed on plants and crops. Accessibility of knowledge is among the most critical of factors involved with plant/crop stress problems. Without due consideration of all the factors contributing to a specific plant/crop stress problem, it is unlikely that a permanent solution can be found. Facilitating the accessibility of the desired information, the volume is divided into ten sections. Each section consists of one or more chapters that discuss as many aspects of stress as possible. While many references cover soil salinity, sodicity, specific plant/crop salt and water stress, pollution, and other environmental stresses, they exist relatively in isolation, focusing mainly on one specific topic. Prepared with input from more than a hundred contributors from twenty seven countries, this book combines information on these interrelated areas into a single resource. Packed with illustrations, figures, and tables, covering plant/crop stress problems from the soil to the atmosphere, this book puts this expanded environmental stressors knowledge base within easy reach."--Publisher's description Completely revised and updated to reflect recent advances in the field, the Second Edition of this comprehensive reference addresses issues and concerns related to plant and crop stress-detailing interrelated topics never before combined in a single text.With 56 chapters-23 more than the First Edition-the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Second Edition includes new information onpH stresswater-deficit conditionstemperature stresscarotenoids and stresslight stressoxidative damage to proteinspollution stressUV-B induced stressagrichemical stressabiotic stress toleranceWritten by over 110 renowned scientists, specialists, and researchers in the field from over 25 countries, the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Second Editiondiscusses soil salinity and sodicity problems and their effects on crop growthcovers plants and crops with different degrees of salt tolerance as well as their response to salt, drought, temperature/heat, pollution, agrichemical, and other stressesintroduces plants and crops suitable for cultivation under stressful conditionspresents the most recent information on cellular and microbiological aspects of plants/crops under stressful conditionsexplores the beneficial effects of stress on plants and cropsand more! Detailing interrelated topics, this work addresses issues and concerns related to plant and crop stress. This edition includes information on stress caused by low or high pH, temperature, carotenoids, light, pollution, and agrichemicals. It also covers water-deficit conditions, oxidative damage to proteins, and abiotic stress tolerance. The authors discuss the molecular biology and microbiological aspects of plant responses under salt, drought, and other environmental stress conditions as well as genetic factors. They also examine soil salinity, soil nutrient deficiency problems, and plant and