Abiotic stress : new research / Nikhil Haryana and Shreya Punj, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haryana, Nikhil.

Punj, Shreya.

Series:

Environmental science, engineering and technology series.

Environmental remediation technologies, regulations and safety

Environmental science, engineering and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants--Effect of stress on--Research.

Plants.

Plants--Adaptation--Research.

Plant physiology--Research.

Plant physiology.

Plant genomes--Research.

Plant genomes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Abiotic stress is the negative impact of non-living factors on the living organisms of a specific environment. The non-living variable must influence the environment beyond its normal range of variation to adversely affect the population performance or individual physiology of the organism in a significant way. Abiotic stresses, such as salinity, drought, temperature, and oxidative stress, cause major loss in crop yields. Topics discussed in this book include drought and nutritional stresses in plants; NADP-dependent enzymes and abiotic stress; circadian regulation of abiotic stress tolerance in caenorhabditis elegans; and plant cortical microtubules and abiotic stress signals.

Contents:

""ABIOTIC STRESS: NEW RESEARCH""; ""LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: DROUGHT AND NUTRITIONAL STRESSES IN PLANT: ALLEVIATING ROLE OF RHIZOSPHERIC MICROORGANISMS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. PLANT-MICROORGANISMS INTERACTIONS ANDEFFECTS ON NUTRITIONAL STRESSES""; ""3. ROLE OF SOIL MICROORGANISMS IN REDUCING NUTRITIONAL STRESSES""; ""3.1. Nitrogen""; ""3.2. Phosphorus""; ""3.3. Other Nutrient Elements""; ""3.4. Interactions between Different Soil Microorganisms and Nutrient Stresses""

""4. DROUGHT STRESS EFFECTS ON PLANT""""4.1. Role of Rhizospheric Microorganisms in DroughtStress Alleviation""; ""4.1.1. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)""; ""4.1.2. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)""; ""4.1.3. Maize Tolerance to Drought Stress and Inoculation of Specifically Selected Rhizospheric Microorganisms: A Case Study""; ""5. CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 2: NADP-DEPENDENT ENZYMES AND ABIOTIC STRESS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""1. NADPH""; ""2. ENZYMES PRODUCING NADPH AND ABIOTIC STRESS""

""2.1. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase and 6-Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase""""2.2. NADP-Isocitrate Dehydrogenase""; ""2.3. NADP-Malic Enzyme""; ""2.4. NADP-Glutamate Dehydrogenase""; ""2.5. Non-Phosphorylating NADP-Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase""; ""3. ENZYMES UTILIZING NADPH UNDER ABIOTIC STRESS""; ""3.1. Enzymes of Biosynthetic Pathways""; ""3.1.1. Enzyme of Shikimate Pathway: Shikimate Dehydrogenase""; ""3.1.2. Enzymes Biosynthesizing Osmotically Active Compounds""; ""3.1.2.1 Mannose-6-Phosphate Reductase""

""3.1.2.2. Î?1-Pyrroline-5-Carboxylate Synthetase, Î?1-Pyrroline-5-Carboxylate Reductase""""3.1.3. Enzyme Participating in Biosynthesis of Isoprenoids: 3-Hydroxy-3-Methyl-Glutaryl-CoA Reductase""; ""3.2. Enzymes Involved in Antioxidant System""; ""3.2.2. Monodehydroascorbate Reductase""; ""3.2.1. Glutathione Reductase""; ""3.3. Regulatory Enzymes""; ""3.3.1. Thioredoxin Reductases""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 3: WATER-DEFICIT STRESS SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS IN PLANTS: FROM SENSING TO RESPONSE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""

""WATER-DEFICIT STRESS SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS""""POTENTIAL SENSORS FOR WATER-DEFICIT STRESS""; ""SECOND MESSENGERS""; ""Calcium""; ""Phospholipids""; ""ROS""; ""PHOSPHOPROTEIN CASCADES""; ""Calcium Dependent Protein Kinases (CDPKs)""; ""SOS2 and SOS2-like Protein Kinases (PKSs)""; ""Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases (MAPKs)""; ""Protein Phosphatases""; ""ROLE OF ABSCISIC ACID (ABA) IN WATER-DEFICIT STRESS RESPONSES""; ""STRESS- AND ABA-REGULATED GENE EXPRESSION""; ""ABA-DEPENDENT PATHWAY FOR STRESS REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION: ABRE CIS-ELEMENT AND AREB/ABF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS""

""ABA-INDEPENDENT STRESS RESPONSIVE GENE EXPRESSION: DRE CIS-ELEMENT AND CBF/DREB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61942-212-3