Emerging technologies and management of crop stress tolerance. Volume 2, A sustainable approach / edited by Parvaiz Ahmad, Saiema Rasool.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmad., author.

Contributor:

Ahmad, Parvaiz,., editor.

Rasool, Saiema,., editor.

Parvaiz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crops--Effect of stress on.

Crops.

Crop science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 p.)

Edition:

1版ition

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California : Academic Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Volume II - A Sustainable Approach helps readers take technological measures to alleviate plant stress and improve crop production in various environmental conditions. This resource provides a comprehensive review of how technology can be implemented to improve plant stress tolerance to increase productivity and meet the agricultural needs of the growing human population. The book considers issues of deforestation, disease prevention, climate change and drought, water and land management, and more. It will help an

Contents:

Front Cover; Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; List of Contributors; 1 Improvement of Legume Crop Production Under Environmental Stresses Through Biotechnological Intervention; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Major stresses affecting legume crop production; 1.3 Biotic stresses for legumes; 1.3.1 Fungi; 1.3.2 Foliar diseases; 1.3.3 Plant viruses; 1.3.4 Insects and pests; 1.3.5 Parasitic weeds; 1.4 Biotechnological interventions for biotic stress tolerance in legumes

1.4.1 Focus on fungal stress1.4.1.1 Chickpea; 1.4.1.1.1 Resistance to Ascochyta blight; 1.4.1.2 Alfalfa; 1.4.1.2.1 Resistance to anthracnose; 1.4.1.2.2 Use of Medicago truncatula to study resistance to other pathogenic fungi; 1.5 Abiotic stresses in legumes; 1.5.1 Drought; 1.5.2 Salinity; 1.5.3 Temperature; 1.6 Biotechnological interventions for abiotic stress tolerance in legumes; 1.6.1 Soybean; 1.6.1.1 Response to drought; 1.6.1.1.1 Biotechnological intervention for drought resistance; 1.6.1.1.2 Marker-assisted selection for drought resistance; 1.6.1.2 Genetic engineering; 1.6.2 Cowpea

1.6.2.1 Effect of heat1.6.2.1.1 Responses to heat stress; 1.6.2.1.2 Biotechnological interventions for heat stress; 1.7 Conclusion and future prospects; References; 2 Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Plant responses to abiotic stresses; 2.3 Proteomic analysis of responses to abiotic stresses; 2.3.1 Water stress; 2.3.1.1 Drought stress; 2.3.1.2 Flooding stress; 2.3.2 Imbalances in mineral nutrition; 2.3.2.1 Deficient concentrations of mineral nutrients; 2.3.3 Heavy metal stress; 2.3.4 Salt stress; 2.3.5 Temperature stress; 2.3.5.1 Heat stress; 2.3.5.2 Cold stress

2.4 Conclusion and future prospectsReferences; 3 Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in Crop Improvement under Environmental Stress; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; 3.3 Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soil fertility; 3.4 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and environmental stresses in plants; 3.4.1 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and water stress; 3.4.2 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and salinity stress; 3.4.3 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and pathogen attack; 3.4.4 AMF and herbicides and pesticides

3.5 Ion transport in plants under stress and the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi3.6 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and mineral nutrition; 3.6.1 Phosphorus; 3.6.2 Nitrogen; 3.6.3 Potassium and K+/Na+ ratio; 3.6.4 Calcium; 3.6.5 Magnesium; 3.7 Conclusion and future prospects; References; 4 Role of Endophytic Microbes in Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Plants; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Endophyte diversity; 4.3 Sustainable use of endophytes and habitat-imposed abiotic stress; 4.4 Conclusion and future prospects; Acknowledgments; References

5 Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria Elicited Induced Systemic Resistance and Tolerance in Plants

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 15, 2014).

ISBN:

9780128010877

0128010878

OCLC:

883128123