Abiotic stress tolerance in plants [electronic resource] / edited by ASHWANI K. RAI, TERUHIRO TAKABE.

I - Signal transduction -- Stress Signal Transduction: components, pathways and network integration -- Identification of salt-responsive genes in monocotyledonous plants: from transcriptome to functional -- Phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain and plant osmotic-stress responses -- II - Temperature stress -- Trienoic fatty acids and temperature tolerance of higher plants -- 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 -- IV - Phytoremediation -- Genetic engineering stress tolerant plants for phytoremeditation -- V - Osmotic stresses -- Metabolic engineering of glycinebetaine -- Induction of biosynthesis of osmoprotectants in higher plants by hydrogen peroxide and its application to agriculture -- VI - Ion homeostasis -- Na+/H+ antiporters in plants and cyanobacteria -- Structural and functional relationship between cation transporters and channels -- VII - Nutrition -- Is cellulose synthesis enhanced by expression of sucrose sysnthesis in poplar -- Nitrogen metabolism in cyanobacteria under osmotic stress -- VIII - Structural responses -- Ultrastructural effects of salinity stress in higher plants -- 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.

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.