Abiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches

by M. Ashraf (Editor), Philip Harris (Editor)

Overview

Gain a better understanding of the genetic and physiological bases of stress response and stress tolerance as part of crop improvement programs

Abiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches explores innovative methods for breeding new varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses that limit crop production worldwide. Experts provide you with basic principles and techniques of plant breeding as well as work done in relation to improving resistance in specific important world food crops. This book supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that illustrate the research findings.

Abiotic Stresses is divided into two sections. In the first section, you will find:

• the general principles of breeding crops for stress resistance
  
• genetic engineering and molecular biology procedures for crop improvement for stress environments
  
• data on genome mapping and its implications for improving stress resistance in plants
  
• information about breeding for resistance/tolerance to salinity, drought, flooding, metals, low nutrient availability, high/low temperatures
  

The second section of this timely resource focuses on the efforts of acknowledged specialists who concentrated their efforts on important individual crops, such as:

• wheat
  
• barley
  
• rice
  
• maize
  
• oilseed crops
  
• cotton
  
• tomato
  

This book fills a niche and interface in the available literature as it deals with all of the major stresses from a perspective of crop breeding, covering the latest advances in molecular breeding technology. Abiotic Stresses will help scientists and academics in botany, plant breeding, plant environmental stress studies, agriculture, and horticulture modify and improve breeding programs globally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560229643
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/07/2005
Series:	Crop Science Ser.
Pages:	746
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

M. Ashraf, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Philip Harris.

Table of Contents

Preface PART I: GENERAL OVERVIEW Chapter 1. Stress Environments and Their Impact on Crop Production (Shafiq-ur-Rehman,P. J. C. Harris, and M. Ashraf) Introduction Biotic and Abiotic Stresses Multiple and Variable Stresses and Tolerance Abiotic Stress Symptoms Major Abiotic Stresses Limiting Crop Yield Crop Production in Stressful Conditions Future Prospects Chapter 2. Breeding for Stress Resistance: General Principles (Mervyn O. Humphreys and Michael W. Humphreys) Introduction Breeding for Improved Stress Resistance The Genetics of Abiotic Stress Tolerance Mechanisms of Stress Resistance The Role of Genetic Engineering in Breeding: Implications and Limitations Conclusion Chapter 3. Use of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology Approaches for Crop Improvement for Stress Environments (Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Liming Xiong, and Jian-Kang Zhu) Introduction Osmolytes/Osmoprotectants Oxidative-Stress Tolerance Stress Proteins Cellular Membrane Stability Salt-Stress Tolerance: Ion Homeostasis Water Uptake and Transpiration Cell-Wall Elasticity Marker-Assisted Selection Conclusions and Future Perspectives Chapter 4. Genome Mapping and Its Implications for Improving Stress Resistance in Plants (Nguyen Thi Vinh and Andrew H. Paterson) The Impact of Drought, Salinity, and Acid Soil Conditions for World Agriculture Selection of Stress-Tolerant Crop Cultivars Application of DNA Markers to Improve Stress Tolerance Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

Taek-Ryoun Kwon PhD

Taek-Ryoun Kwon, PhD, Research Plant Physiologist, The National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, RDA, Suwon, Korea
A landmark grafting of modern agricultural biotechnology with conventional breeding technology for plant improvement against abiotic stresses.

Mohmed F. Mansour PhD

Mohmed F. Mansour, PhD, Professor of Plant Physiology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
ESSENTIAL for anyone working in the field of plant breeding for abiotic stresses I highly recommend it. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS BOOK comes from the fact that it uniquely and extensively emphasizes the underlying breeding and molecular approaches that help develop productive crops under abiotic stresses. It also discusses the physiological, biochemical, and molecular traits for stress tolerance.