Abiotic Stress and Plant Responses

Description

Environmental stresses represent the most limitingfactors for agricultural productivity. Apart from bioticstress caused by plant pathogens, there are a numberof abiotic stresses such as extremes in temperature,drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation whichall have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield. However, certain plant species and ecotypes havedeveloped various mechanisms to adapt to suchstress conditions.Recent advances in the understanding of these abioticstress responses provided the impetus for compilingup-to-date reviews discussing all relevant topics inabiotic stress signaling of plants in a single volume.Topical reviews were prepared by selected experts andcontain an introduction, discussion of the state of artand important future tasks of the particular fields. The book describes physiological and molecular responses, role of signaling molecules and plant phenolics in abiotic stress tolerance and covers the information on salinity induced oxidative stress, strategies of halophytes to survive in a salty environment and tolerance mechanism.