Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress / Edition 1

by Heribert Hirt, Kazuo Shinozaki

Overview

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Apart from biotic stress caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses such as extremes in temperature, drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation which all have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield. However, certain plant species and ecotypes have developed various mechanisms to adapt to such stress conditions. Recent advances in the understanding of these abiotic stress responses provided the impetus for compiling up-to-date reviews discussing all relevant topics in abiotic stress signaling of plants in a single volume. Topical reviews were prepared by selected experts and contain an introduction, discussion of the state of the art and important future tasks of the particular fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540200376
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/05/2003
Series:	Topics in Current Genetics , #4
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Molecular Responses of Higher Plants to Dehydration.- Abscisic Acid Signalling.- Plant Responses to Heat Stress.- Sensors of Abiotic Stress in Synechocystis.- Oxidative Stress Signalling.- Signal Transduction in Plant Cold Acclimation.- Heavy Metal Signalling in Plants: Linking Cellular and Organismic Responses.- Molecular Genetics of Genotoxic Stress Signalling in Plants.- Plant Salt Tolerance.- Transcriptome Analysis in Abiotic Stress Conditions in Higher Plants.