Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants
Overview
- Editors:
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Girdhar K. Pandey
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Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology, Dhaula Kuan, India
- First book to discuss plant signaling from a genetic perspective
- Diversified group of international contributors
- Latest research and discussion, previously unavailable in one source
About this book
Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal transduction pathways for abiotic stresses, light, several phytohormones and pathogenesis have been elucidated. A significant portion of plant genomes (most studies are Arabidopsis and rice genome) encodes for proteins involves in signaling such as receptor, sensors, kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors and transporters/channels. Despite decades of physiological and molecular effort, knowledge pertaining to how plants sense and transduce low and high temperature, low-water availability (drought), water-submergence and salinity signals is still a major question before plant biologists. One major constraint hampering our understanding of these signal transduction processes in plants has been the lack or slow pace of application of molecular genomic and genetics knowledge in the form of gene function. In the post-genomic era, one of the major challenges is investigation and understanding of multiple genes and gene families regulating a particular physiological and developmental aspect of plant life cycle. One of the important physiological processes is regulation of stress response, which leads to adaptation or adjustment in response to adverse stimuli. With the holistic understanding of the signaling pathways involving not only one gene family but multiple genes or gene families, plant biologists can lay a foundation for designing and generating future crops that can withstand the higher degree of environmental stresses (especially abiotic stresses, which are the major cause of crop loss throughout the world) without losing crop yield and productivity. Therefore, in this proposed book, we intend to incorporate the contribution from leading plant biologists to elucidate several aspects of stress signaling by functional genomic approaches.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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Gene Expression Regulation of Stress Signaling
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- Subhasis Samanta, Jitendra Kumar Thakur
Pages 3-28
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- Rebecca Ford, Saleem Khan, Nitin Mantri
Pages 29-43
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- Sonia C. Balyan, Roseeta D. Mutum, Shivani Kansal, Santosh Kumar, Saloni Mathur, Saurabh Raghuvanshi
Pages 45-91
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- Swati Megha, Urmila Basu, Muhammad H. Rahman, Nat N. V. Kav
Pages 93-106
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Diverse Stress Signaling Networks
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Front Matter
Pages 107-107
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- Homa Hemmati, Dinesh Gupta, Chhandak Basu
Pages 109-142
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- Somya Sinha, Bharti Kukreja, Priyanka Arora, Manisha Sharma, Girdhar K. Pandey, Manu Agarwal et al.
Pages 143-194
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- Charu Lata, Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad
Pages 195-225
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- S. Lekshmy, Shailendra Kumar Jha, Raj Kumar Sairam
Pages 227-242
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- Rohit Joshi, Venkata Ramanarao Mangu, Renesh Bedre, Luis Sanchez, Whitney Pilcher, Hana Zandkarimi et al.
Pages 243-279
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- Priyanka Choudhury, Sindhu Kandoth Veetil, Suneel Kateriya
Pages 281-294
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- Gyana Ranjan Rout, Jogeswar Panigrahi
Pages 295-322
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- Annie P. Jangam, N. Raghuram
Pages 323-339
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- Ritika Das, Amita Pandey, Girdhar K. Pandey
Pages 341-390
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Manifestation of Stress Tolerance
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Front Matter
Pages 391-391
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- Brijesh Gupta, Amit K. Tripathi, Rohit Joshi, Ashwani Pareek, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek
Pages 393-413
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- Autar K. Mattoo, Rakesh K. Upadhyay, Sairam Rudrabhatla
Pages 415-437
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- Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Naser A. Anjum, Ritu Gill, Monika Mahajan, Narendra Tuteja
Pages 439-472
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology, Dhaula Kuan, India
Girdhar K. Pandey
About the editor
Dr. Girdhar Pandey serves as Associate Professor for the Department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Delhi South Campus. Dr. Pandey has published and contributed to widely praised books on plant genetics and genomics, including GTPases: Versatile Regulators of Signal Transduction in Plants (Springer, 2015), Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants: Physiological, Molecular and Genomic Foundation (Springer, 2010), and Biotechnology in Sustainable Biodiversity and Food Security (Science Publishers, Inc., 2003).