Molecular Stress Physiology of Plants, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013

Crop growth and production is dependent on various climatic factors. Both abiotic and biotic stresses have become an integral part of plant growth and development. There are several factors involved in plant stress mechanism. The information in the area of plant growth and molecular mechanism against abiotic and biotic stresses is scattered. The up-to-date information with cited references is provided in this book in an organized way. More emphasis has been given to elaborate the injury and tolerance mechanisms and growth behavior in plants against abiotic and biotic stresses. This book also deals with abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants, molecular mechanism of stress resistance of photosynthetic machinery, stress tolerance in plants: special reference to salt stress - a biochemical and physiological adaptation of some Indian halophytes, PSII fluorescence techniques for measurement of drought and high temperature stress signal in crop plants: protocols and applications, salicylic acid: role in plant physiology & stress tolerance, salinity induced genes and molecular basis of salt tolerance mechanism in mangroves, reproductive stage abiotic stress tolerance in cereals, calorimetry and Raman spectrometry to study response of plant to biotic and abiotic stresses, molecular physiology of osmotic stress in plants and mechanisms, functions and toxicity of heavy metals stress in plants, submergence stress tolerance in plants and adoptive mechanism, Brassinosteroid modulated stress responses under temperature stress, stress tolerant in plants: a proteomics approach, Marker-assisted breeding for stress resistance in crop plants, DNA methylation associated epigenetic changes in stress tolerance of plants and role of calcium-mediated CBL-CIPK network in plant mineral nutrition & abiotic stress. Each chapter has been laid out with introduction, up-to-date literature, possible stress mechanism, and applications. Under abiotic stress, plant produces a large quantity of free radicals, which have been elaborated. We hope that this book will be of greater use for the post-graduate students, researchers, physiologist and biotechnologist to sustain the plant growth and development.

1.Title: Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants.- 2.Title: Molecular Mechanism of stress-resistance of photosynthetic machinery.- 3.Title: Salinity induced genes and molecular basis of salt tolerance strategies in mangroves.- 4.Title: PSII fluorescence techniques for measurement of drought and high temperature stress signal in crop plants: protocols and applications.- 5.Title: Salt tolerance in cereals: Molecular mechanism and applications.- 6.Title: Salt stress: A biochemical and physiological adaptation of some Indian halophytes of Sundarbans.- 7.Title: Molecular physiology of osmotic stress in plants.- 8.Title: The physiology of reproductive - stage abiotic stress tolerance in cereals.- 9.Title: Salicylic acid: role in plant physiology and stress tolerance.- 10.Title: Role of calcium-mediated CBl-CIPK network in plant mineral nutrition and abiotic stress.- 11.Title: Isothermal calorimetry and Raman spectroscopy to study response of plants to abiotic and biotic stress.- 12. Title: Mechanism of plant tolerance in response to heavy metals.- 13.Title: Brassinosteroids - Biosynthesis and role in growth development and thermo tolerance responses.- 14.Title: Submergence stress tolerance in crop plants.- 15. Title: Stress tolerance in plants: a proteomics approach.-16.Title: Marker-Assisted Breeding (MBA for stress resistance in crop plants.- 17.Title: DNA Methylation Associated Epigenetic Changes in Stress Tolerance of Plants.

Prof. Gyana Ranjan Rout is the Head of Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. Prof. Rout has worked in various aspects of plant sciences for over 25 years. He has made significant contributions in the field of plant improvement and propagation of various plant species, heavy metal toxicity and its tolerant mechanism, reclamation of mine through phytoremediation and DNA fingerprinting. Prof. Rout was elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) in 1999 in the field of Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. He is awarded Samanta Chandra Shekhar award in 2005 honored by Orissa Bigyan Academy, Govt. of Odisha, for contributions to Life Sciences. Prof. Rout has 25 years of research and teaching experience in the field of plant biotechnology and heavy metal stress mechanism. He has published 175 research papers and 16 review chapters published in national and international peer reviewed journalsand 20 book chapters in contributory volumes. He has also been a Principal Investigator of 10 major research projects funded by ICAR, DBT and NMPB. Dr. Anath Bandhu is a Associate Professor in Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr. Das has worked assiduously in various aspects of plant sciences for over 26 years. He has made significant contributions in the field of cytotaxonomy, cytometry, DNA fingerprinting and molecular physiology in various groups of medicinal plants, mangroves, cacti, orchids and sweet gourd. He has reported for the first time chromosome number, karyotype and genome size in ~350 species of angiosperms, especially on Indian mangroves that underpinned mining of de novo genomic diversity in diploids and polyploids. Molecular phylogeny of mangroves using various DNA markers resolved many discrepancies in taxonomic classifications. He is also working in molecular basis of high salt adapt

This book covers both abiotic and biotic stresses in plants supported by updated literature reviews and experimental data A special chapter that includes the stress during the reproductive stage Various stress tolerance and adoptive mechanisms are discussed and developed using novel approaches and out-of-the-box thinking