Crop Resilience to Environmental Stress: Physiological and Molecular Crosstalk

2024-09-13

"Crop Resilience to Environmental Stress: Physiological and Molecular Crosstalk" focuses on the intricate interactions between plants and their environment, emphasizing the physiological and molecular mechanisms that underpin stress tolerance. Environmental stressors such as drought, salinity, heat, and cold significantly affect crop yield and productivity. This book explores the dynamic responses of plants to these stressors, highlighting how physiological processes, such as stomatal regulation, osmotic adjustment, and photosynthetic efficiency, are integrated with molecular signaling pathways involving hormones, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and transcription factors.

By exploring crosstalk between these mechanisms, the book reveals how plants adapt to stress at multiple levels of organization, from gene expression to whole-plant physiology. Special attention is given to advances in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of how cutting-edge molecular techniques are being employed to improve crop resilience. The book also addresses how climate change exacerbates environmental stresses, stressing the need for resilient crop varieties to sustain food security.

Table of Content/Chapter title

  • Part-I:
  • Introduction to Environmental Stress in Crops
  • Climate Change and Its Impact on Agriculture
  • Physiological Responses to Drought Stress
  • Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Drought Tolerance
  • Salinity Stress: Effects on Crop Physiology
  • Molecular Crosstalk in Salt Tolerance Mechanisms
  • Heat Stress and Its Physiological Impacts
  • Molecular Pathways in Heat Stress Tolerance
  • Cold Stress: Physiological Adjustments in Plants
  • The Molecular Basis of Cold Tolerance
  • Part-II:
  • Oxidative Stress: Managing Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Hormonal Regulation Under Environmental Stress
  • Signal Transduction Networks in Stress Response
  • The Role of Epigenetics in Stress Tolerance
  • Genomic Tools for Enhancing Crop Resilience
  • Proteomics and Metabolomics in Stress Research
  • Engineering Crops for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
  • Sustainable Agricultural Practices for Resilient Crops
  • Case Studies of Stress-Resilient Crop Varieties
  • Future Directions in Crop Stress Research

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