Environmental Contamination and Climate Change

Effect on Plants and Remedial Strategies

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2021
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5361-9667-2 (ISBN)

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Environmental contamination and climate change-induced abiotic stresses, such as high or low temperature, water logging or drought, high salinity, pesticides, heavy metals, and radiation like ultra-violet are detrimental to plant growth and development, leading to great loss in crop yield worldwide. It is getting essential to provide crops with multi-stress adaptation to alleviate the burden of environmental stresses and to fulfil the inevitability of population growth, as various abiotic stresses generally evolve simultaneously in the fields. To combat these environmental stresses, plants develop certain defence responses against abiotic stresses, including some biochemical and molecular aspects like reactive species scavengers, molecular chaperones, compatible solutes, plant growth regulators and antioxidative defence system inside cells. In response to stress, they are orchestrated by a composite regulatory complex involving signalling molecules like stress hormones, reactive oxygen species, polyamines, phytochromes, and calcium, as well as stress proteins. In this book, we aim at presenting the effects of different abiotic stresses on plants and an overview of various defensive systems and the regulatory network, along with their practical potential via some biotechnological tools like genetic engineering and/or exogenous applications, because understanding the abiotic stress response mechanisms in plants will help to improve the growth rate and productivity of crops. The book has 6 chapters which deal with the effect of different abiotic stresses in plants caused by environmental contamination and climate change and the remedial strategies. We believe that this book comprises a wealth of knowledge to botanists, agriculturists, students and researchers of colleges and universities.

Preface; Microplastic as a Multistressor: Impact on Flora and Fauna Along with Its Remedial Strategies; Salinity Stress in Terrestrial as Well as Aquatic Ecosystems: Effects and Biochemical & Molecular Adaptations in Plants; Abiotic Stresses in Response to Climate Change in Plants and Their Management; Trends and Health Risks of Heavy Metals Contamination in Agricultural Soils of India: Effects and Defensive Responses of Plants; Climate Change and Wateravailability to Plants in Terrestrial Ecosystem: Effects and Adaptive Strategies; Side effects of Pesticides in Plants and their Detoxification Mechanism; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	419 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-5361-9667-3 / 1536196673
ISBN-13	978-1-5361-9667-2 / 9781536196672
Zustand	Neuware