"Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants"

Toward the Improvement of Global Environment and Food

edited by Rai, Ashwani K.; Takabe, TeruhiroSpringer, March 2006, 267 pages. $125.00 + shipping ($5.00, U.S. or $15.00 Elsewhere)

The main objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge of recent developments in the understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses in a single volume. Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants contains nine sections; Signal transduction, Temperature stress, Oxidative stresses, Phytoremediation, Osmotic stresses, Ion homeostasis, Nutrition, Structural responses, and Genetic diversity and development of biotechnology. Contributions in each chapter are prepared by leading experts in the respective fields and mirror the advancement in the approach. This book contains important future tasks of the particular fields and supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that illustrate the research findings. Each chapter reflects how physiologists, biochemists and molecular biologists have caught up with the newer techniques to understand the basic problems of abiotic stress in plant species. All these make this book highly useful and a must read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, plant environmental stress studies, agriculture, plant physiology, cell biology and molecular biology, in both the academic and industrial sectors.

CONTENTS

Section I Signal transduction: Stress signal transduction: components, pathways and network integration. Identification of salt-responsive genes in onocotyledonous plants: from transcriptome to functional analysis. Phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain and plant osmotic-stress responses.- Section II Temperature stress: Trienoic fatty acids and temperature tolerance of higher plants.- Section III Oxidative stresses: Nitric oxide research in agriculture: bridging the plant and bacterial realms. Ultraviolet radiation stress: molecular and physiological adaptations in trees. Involvement of aldehyde dehydrogenase in alleviation of post-anoxic injury in rice.- Section IV Phytoremediation: Genetic engineering stress tolerant plants for phytoremediation.- Section V Osmotic stresses: Metabolic engineering of glycine betaine. Induction of biosynthesis of osmoprotectants in higher plants by hydrogen peroxide and its application to agriculture.- Section VI Ion homeostasis: Role of Na+/H+ antiporters for salt tolerance in plants and cyanobacteria. Structural and functional relationship between cation transporters and channels.- Section VII Nutrition: Is cellulose synthesis enhanced by expression of sucrose synthase in poplar? Nitrogen metabolism in cyanobacteria under osmotic stress.- Section VIII Structural responses: Ultrastructural effects of salinity stress in higher plants.- Section IX Development of Biotechnology: Genetic diversity of saline coastal rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces of Bangladesh. Development of marker-free and gene-exchange vectors, and its application. Toward the development of biotechnology in Asia.-Index.

Visa, Mastercard or American Express Card is now accepted

To Order Books

Return to Main Page

Agritech Publications/Agricell Report

P.O. Box 255
Shrub Oak, NY 10588, U.S.A.
Phone/Fax: (914) 528-3469
E-mail: Agritech@AgritechPublications.com