Transcription Factors for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

Transcription Factors for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants highlights advances in the understanding of the regulatory network that impacts plant health and production, providing important insights for improving plant resistance. Plant production worldwide is suffering serious losses due to widespread abiotic stresses increasing as a result of global climate change. Frequently more than one abiotic stress can occur at once, for example extreme temperature and osmotic stress, which increases the complexity of these environmental stresses. Modern genetic engineering technologies are one of the promising tools for development of plants with efficient yields and resilience to abiotic stresses. Hence deciphering the molecular mechanisms and identifying the abiotic stress associated genes that control plant response to abiotic stresses is a vital requirement in developing plants with increased abiotic stress resilience.

Addressing the various complexities of transcriptional regulation, this book includes chapters on cross talk and central regulation, regulatory networks, the role of DOF, WRKY and NAC transcription factors, zinc finger proteins, CRISPR/CAS9-based genome editing, C-Repeat (CRT) binding factors (CBFs)/Dehydration responsive element binding factors (DREBs) and factors impacting salt, cold and phosphorous stress levels, as well as transcriptional modulation of genes involved in nanomaterial-plant interactions.

Transcription Factors for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants provides a useful reference by unravelling the transcriptional regulatory networks in plants. Researchers and advanced students will find this book a valuable reference for understanding this vital area.

1. Role of DOF Transcription Factors in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants
2. WRKY Transcription factors for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3. Zinc Finger Proteins: Novel sources of genes for abiotic stress tolerance in plants
4. NAC Transcription factor family in Rice: Recent advancements for development of stress tolerant rice
5. CRISPR/Cas9-Based Genome Editing of Transcription Factor Genes in Plants
6. Characterization of Transcription factors for drought tolerance in Maize
7. Major transcription factor families involved in Salinity stress tolerance in Plants
8. Regulation of inducible promoters during salinity stress in plants
9. The role of key transcription factors for cold tolerance in plants
10. Recent advances in Plant Heat stress transcription factors
11. Role of transcription factors for developing phosphorus stress tolerance cultivars in crop plants
12. Major transcription factor families involved in nitrogen stress adaptation in plants
13. Engineering transcription factors: an emerging strategy for developing abiotic stress tolerant crops

Shabir Hussain Wani is Scientist cum Assistant Professor at Shere-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir where his research focuses on plant breeding and genetics/plant biotechnology.

Included among his awards are:

Fellow of the Linnean Society of London-2017

YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2017), Indian Ecological Society Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana.

Young Scientist of the Year 2016, International foundation for Environment and Ecology Kolkata India.

YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD – 2016, Society for Advancement of Human and Nature (SADHNA) YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2015), Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India

YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2009), Society for Promotion of Plant Science Research. Jaipur National University, Jaipur.

FELLOW OF SOCIETY FOR PLANT RESEARCH AWARD – 2011-12