Environmental adaptations and stress tolerance of plants in the era of climate change
By: Parvaiz Ahmad, M.N.V. Prasad, editors
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9781461408147
Subjects: Plants; Effect of stress on; Vegetation and climate; Adaptation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Abiotic stress responses in plants: an overview / Hans-Werner Koyro, Parvaiz Ahmad, and Nicole Geissler; title: 2. Prospects of halophytes in understanding and managing / Vinayak H. Lokhande and Penna Suprasana; title: 3. UV-B radiation, its effects and defense mechanisms in terrestrial plants / Fernando E. Prado, Mariana Rosa, Carolina Prado, Griselda Podazza, Roque Interdonato, Juan A. González, and Mirna Hilal; title: 4. K⁺ nutrition, uptake, and its role in environmental stress in plants / Manuel Nieves-Cordones, Fernando Alemán, Mario Fon, Vicente Martínez, and Francisco Rubio; title: 5. Temperature stress and responses of plants / Anna Źróbek-Sokolnik; title: 6. Responses and management of heat stress in plants / Abdul Wahid, Muhammad Farooq, Iqbal Hussain, Rizwan Rasheed, and Saddia Galani; title: 7. Understanding chilling tolerance traits using Arabidopsis chilling-sensitive mutants / Dana Zoldan, Reza Shekaste Band, Charles L. Guy, and Ron Porat; title: 8. Root form and function in plant as an adaptation to changing climate / Maria Rosa Abenavoli, Maria Rosaria Panuccio, and Agostino Sorgonà; title: 9. Reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide in plants under cadmium stress: from toxicity to signaling / Luisa M. Sandalio, Maria Rodriguez-Serrano, Dharmendra K. Gupta, Angustias Archilla, Maria C. Romero-Puertas, and Luis a del Río; title: 10. Reactive nitrogen inflows and nitrogen use efficiency in agriculture: an environment perspective / Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Ruby Chandna, Altaf Ahmad, and Muhammad Iqbal; title: 11. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and other plant-soil interactions in relation to environmental stress / Patrick Audet; title: 12. MicroRNAs and their role in plants during abiotic stresses / Praveen Guleria, Deepmala Goswami, Monika Mahajan, Vinay Kumar, Jytoi Bhardwaj, and Sudesh Kumar Yadav; title: 13. Transcription factors involved in environmental stress responses in plants / Haibo Xin, Feng Ain, and Lam-Son Phan Tran; title: 14. Plant signaling under abiotic stress environment / Parvaiz Ahmad, Renu Bhardwaj, and Narendra Tuteja; title: 15. Calcium signalling in plant cells under environmental stress / Sylvia Lindberg, Md. Mbdul Kader, and Vladislav Yemelyanov; title: 16. Role of H₂O₂ as signaling molecule in plants / M.A. Matilla-Vázquez and A.J. Matilla; title: 17. Role of phytohormone signaling during stress / Mohammad Miransari; title: 18. Ethylene and abiotic stress tolerance in plants / Elisa Gamalero and Bernard R. Glick; title: 19. New approaches to study metal-induced stress in plants / M.C. Cia, F.F. Capaldi, R.F. Carvalho, P.L. Gratão, and  R.A. Azevedo; title: 20. Sulfur in the alleviation of cadmium-induced oxidative stress in plants / Noushina Iqbal, Nafees A. Khan, Md. Iqbal R. Khan, Rahat Nazar, Asim Masood, and Shabina Syeed; title: 21. Role of salicylic acid in alleviating heavy metal stress / Losanka P. Popova, Liliana T. Maslenkova, Albena Ivanova, and Zhivka Stoinova; title: 22. Bioremediation and mitigation of organic contaminants in the era of climate changes / Laura Coppola, Edoardo Puglisi, Costantino Vischetti, and Marco Trevisan; title: 23. Exploitation of weeds and ornamentals for bioremediation of metalliferous substrates in the era of climate change / M.N.V. Prasad.