Emerging technologies and management of crop stress tolerance. Volume 1, Biological techniques / 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 and climate.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (586 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.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 1 - Biological Techniques presents the latest technologies used by scientists for improvement the crop production and explores the various roles of these technologies for the enhancement of crop productivity and inhibition of pathogenic bacteria that can cause disease. This resource provides a comprehensive review of how proteomics, genomics, transcriptomics, ionomics, and micromics are a pathway to improve plant stress tolerance to increase productivity and meet the agricultural needs of the growing

Contents:

Front Cover; Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; List of Contributors; 1 Genomic Approaches and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Physiological, cellular, and biochemical mechanisms of abiotic stress in plants; 1.2.1 Organic and inorganic solutes; 1.2.2 Role of abscisic acid under abiotic stress; 1.2.3 Reactive oxygen species; 1.3 Effects of abiotic stresses on physiological, cellular, and biochemical processes in plants

1.4 Conventional breeding technology to induce abiotic stress tolerance in plants1.5 Functional genomics approaches to induce abiotic stress tolerance in plants; 1.5.1 Advances in phenology assist the genomic studies of abiotic stress tolerance; 1.5.2 Molecular mapping; 1.5.3 Expression sequence tags; 1.5.4 Microarray; 1.5.5 Proteomics and metabolomics; 1.5.6 Transgenic plants for improved salinity tolerance; 1.6 Conclusion and future perspectives; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Metabolomics Role in Crop Improvement; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Techniques involved in metabolomics

2.2.1 Metabolite target analysis2.2.2 Metabolite profiling; 2.2.3 Metabolite fingerprinting; 2.2.4 Bio-resource databases; 2.3 Metabolomics and nutrigenomics-a link; 2.4 Applications of metabolomics in crop improvement; 2.4.1 Improvement of tomato quality by metabolomics; 2.4.1.1 Organic acid content; 2.4.1.2 Sugar content; 2.4.1.3 Free amino acid content; 2.4.2 Improvement of rice quality by metabolomics; 2.4.2.1 Strategy of the fox hunting system; 2.5 Improvement of strawberry quality by metabolomics; 2.6 Conclusion and future prospects; References

3 Transcription Factors and Environmental Stresses in Plants3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Transcription factors activate stress responsive genes; 3.3 APETALA 2/ethylene-responsive element-binding factor; 3.3.1 Cis-acting regulatory element; 3.4 The MYC/MYB transcriptional factors; 3.5 NAC transcriptional factors; 3.5.1 NAC TFs' role in abiotic stress response; 3.5.2 Structural features of NAC TFs; 3.6 WRKY transcriptional factors; 3.6.1 The WRKY domain and the W-Box; 3.6.2 Role of WRKY genes under abiotic stresses; 3.7 CYS2HIS2 zinc-finger (C2H2 ZF) TFs

3.7.1 C2H2 ZF DBD and overall structure of Zat73.8 Conclusion and future perspectives; References; 4 Plant Resistance under Cold Stress: Metabolomics, Proteomics, and Genomic Approaches; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Causes of freezing injury; 4.3 Freezing-tolerance mechanisms; 4.3.1 Metabolomic approaches; 4.3.2 LEA proteins; 4.3.3 HSP proteins; 4.3.4 COR genes; 4.3.5 Osmoprotectants; 4.4 Antioxidant defense under cold stress; 4.5 Cold signal transducers; 4.5.1 Ca2+ influx channels; 4.5.2 ABA and stress signal transduction networks; 4.6 Conclusion and future prospects; References

5 Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

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 8, 2014).

ISBN:

0-12-810171-7

0-12-801088-6