Salt Stress in Plants, 2013
Signalling, Omics and Adaptations

Coordinators: Ahmad Parvaiz, Azooz M.M., Prasad M.N.V.

Language: English
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Salt Stress in Plants
509 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
Environmental conditions and changes, irrespective of source, cause a variety of stresses, one of the most prevalent of which is salt stress. Excess amount of salt in the soil adversely affects plant growth and development, and impairs production. Nearly 20% of the world?s cultivated area and nearly half of the world?s irrigated lands are affected by salinity. Processes such as seed germination, seedling growth and vigour, vegetative growth, flowering and fruit set are adversely affected by high salt concentration, ultimately causing diminished economic yield and also quality of produce. Most plants cannot tolerate salt-stress. High salt concentrations decrease the osmotic potential of soil solution, creating a water stress in plants and severe ion toxicity. The interactions of salts with mineral nutrition may result in nutrient imbalances and deficiencies. The consequence of all these can ultimately lead to plant death as a result of growth arrest and molecular damage. To achieve salt-tolerance, the foremost task is either to prevent or alleviate the damage, or to re-establish homeostatic conditions in the new stressful environment. Barring a few exceptions, the conventional breeding techniques have been unsuccessful in transferring the salt-tolerance trait to the target species. A host of genes encoding different structural and regulatory proteins have been used over the past 5?6 years for the development of a range of abiotic stress-tolerant plants. It has been shown that using regulatory genes is a more effective approach for developing stress-tolerant plants. Thus, understanding the molecular basis will be helpful in developing selection strategies for improving salinity tolerance. This book will shed light on the effect of salt stress on plants development, proteomics, genomics, genetic engineering, and plant adaptations, among other topics. The book will cover around 25 chapters with contributors from all over the world. ??

Chapter 1: Recent Advances of Metabolomics to Reveal Plant Response During Salt Stress.- Chapter 2: MicroRNAs and Their Role in Salt Stress Response in Plants.- Chapter 3: Unravelling Salt Stress in Plants Through Proteomics.- Chapter 4: Genetic Approaches to Improve Salinity Tolerance in Plants.- Chapter 5: LEA Proteins in Salt Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 6: Enhancing Plant Productivity Under Salt Stress – Relevance of Poly-omics.- Chapter 7: Salt Stress and MAPK Signaling in Plants.- Chapter 8: ABA: Role in Plant Signaling Under Salt Stress.- Chapter 9: Calcium Signaling and Its Significance in Alleviating Salt Stress in Plants.- Chapter 10: Improving Salt Tolerance in Rice: Looking Beyond the Conventional.- Chapter 11: Approaches to Improving Salt Tolerance in Maize.- Chapter 12: The Role of Phytochromes in Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 13: Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in Amelioration of Salinity.- Chapter 14: Breeding Salinity Tolerance in Citrus Using Rootstocks.- Chapter 15: Effects of Salt Stress on Photosynthesis Under Ambient and Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Concentration.- Chapter 16: Nitrogen-Use-Efficiency (NUE) in Plants Under NaCl Stress.- Chapter 17: The Responses of Salt-Affected Plants to Cadmium.- Chapter 18: Plant Tissue Culture: A Useful Measure for the Screening of Salt Tolerance in Plants.

Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad (Editor)

 

Dr. Parvaiz is Assistant professor in Botany at A.S. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has completed his post-graduation in Botany in 2000 from Jamia Hamdard New Delhi India. After his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India in 2007 he joined International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. His main research area is stress physiology and molecular biology. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer reviewed journals and 16 book chapters. He has also edited three volume 2 with Springer NY USA and 1 with Studium Press Pvt. India Ltd., New Delhi, India. He have received Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, New Delhi, India, during his Ph.D. Dr. Parvaiz has been awarded Young Scientist Award under Fast Track scheme in 2007, by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India. Dr. parvaiz is actively engaged in studying the molecular and physio-biochemical responses of different agricultural and horticultural plants under environmental stress.

 

Prof. Mohamed M. Azooz (Co-editor)

Pro.Dr. M.M. Azooz is a Professor of Plant Physiology in department of Botany, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. He received the B.Sc in 1984 and M. Sc. in 1990 from Assiut University, Egypt; and Ph.D in 1997 from South Valley University, Qena, Egypt in collaboration with Tübingen University, Germany.  He has published more than 70 research articles in peer reviewed journals and 5 book chapters in international books. He has supervised many M.Sc. students and Ph.D. scholars till date and many are in progress. He is a member of editorial board and reviewer of many international journals. Prof. Azooz has been included in Marquis Who’s in the World (Biography, 28th Edition, 2011), and in the “Top 100 Scientists” list, International BiographicalCentre, Cambridge

This book will shed light on the effect of salt stress on plants development, proteomics, genomics, genetic engineering, and plant adaptations, among other topics Understanding the molecular basis will be helpful in developing selection strategies for improving salinity tolerance The book will cover around 25 chapters with contributors from all over the world Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras