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Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1
Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance

Editor: Aryadeep Roychoudhury, PhD

Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: July 2023
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774912836
E-Book ISBN: 9781003346173
Pages: 420pp w/ index
Binding Type: Hardback/ ebook
Notes: 2 color and 18 b/w illustrations

This new 3-volume set provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites so as to employ novel strategies to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Abiotic stresses such as drought, high salt, cold, heat, UV radiation, heavy metal pollution, etc., are increasingly responsible for restricting plant growth and agricultural production and are becoming more alarming due to threats from global climate change. To combat these threats, it is imperative to study the underlying mechanisms of stress tolerance from diverse metabolites and the biosynthesis pathways for metabolite production to maintain osmotic balance under diverse environmental stresses. This new book set, Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants, provides that understanding.

Volume 1: Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses exclusively on the diverse secondary metabolites that play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions as well as their implications in enhancing tolerance mechanisms. The chapters in this section review and integrate the currently available information on the protective role rendered by a wide array of antioxidative secondary metabolites and their regulation during diverse environmental stress.

Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance throws light on the different inorganic trace elements, including metal nanoparticles, that help to deal with various environmental stresses. While these elements at high level create considerable phytotoxicity and halt metabolic and enzymatic activity, they also promote growth and development in limited quantity, so that they have significant potential in revamping plant morphology and physiology under stressed conditions. Hence, optimum concentration management of these elements can help to mitigate world hunger and contribute toward sustainable agriculture and food security under challenging environments.

Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses on the agronomic and biochemical approaches as well as biotechnological and high-throughput technologies, including the prospects of genetic engineering, epigenetics and the latest CRISPR/Cas technology, in generating stress-tolerant plants. The volume provides a clear road map for the implementation of techniques for improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants for better sustenance.

Key features:

  • Provides an advanced understanding of the mechanisms of action of secondary metabolites and trace elements in environmental stress tolerance as well as the different agronomic and biotechnological methods that enhances stress tolerance
  • Looks at the overall metabolic pathways and genetic engineering, giving a holistic view of plant-level studies of diverse abiotic stresses affecting different metabolic pathways
  • Provides the groundwork to help researchers in designing future programs for identifying novel genes and proteins and targeting proper pathways to develop climate-resilient plants
Altogether the three-volume Biology and Biotechnology of Environmental Stress Tolerance in Plants will enhance our understanding of plant responses to environmental stresses and enable implementation of programs and practices that can help us to develop climate-resilient plants with better performance for better yield and quality.

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CONTENTS:
VOLUME 1: SECONDARY METABOLITES IN ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS TOLERANCE

Preface

Part 1: Pathways for Secondary Metabolite Production

1. Plant Secondary Metabolites and Environmental Stress: An Overview
Umair Riaz, Ayesha Hassan, Madiha Fatima, Humera Aziz, Madiha Rasool, and Ghulam Murtaza

2. Involvement of Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Shikimic Acid Pathway in Environmental Stress Response
Anamika Paul, Krishnendu Acharya, and Nilanjan Chakraborty

3. Terpenoid Production through Mevalonate and Methylerythritol Phosphate Pathway and Regulation of Environmental Stress Tolerance
Lekshmy Sathee, Malini M K, Pramod Kumar, and Sudhir Kumar

Part 2: Individual Secondary Metabolites in Tolerance

4. Role of Diverse Classes of Terpenoids in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stresses
Nehan Shamim, Anamika Paul, Maryam Haghighi, and Nilanjan Chakraborty

5. Terpenoids in Plant Tolerance against Different Environmental Stresses
Anwesha Chatterjee and Harshata Pal

6. Role of Anthocyanin in Plants to Survive against Environmental Stresses
Suprava Nath, Subhashisa Praharaj, Sagar Maitra, Akbar Hossain, Tanmoy Shankar, Biswajit Pramanick, Mahua Banerjee, Bishal Mukherjee, Dinkar Jagannath Gaikwad, Masina Sairam, and Rajesh Shriram Kalasare

7. Role of Carotenoids in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stresses
Bhupinder Dhir

8. Involvement of Chalcones and Coumarins in Environmental Stress Tolerance
Shreya Nath, Anish Nag, Swarnali Dey, Rita Kundu, and Subhabrata Paul

9. Role of Phenolic Acids and Flavonoids in the Mitigation of Environmental Stress in Plants
Ankur Singh and Aryadeep Roychoudhury

Part 3: Application and Analysis of Secondary Metabolites

10. Seedling and Seed Priming in Regulating Secondary Metabolite Level for Stress Tolerance
Robab Salami, Masoumeh Kordi, Nasser Delangiz, Behnam Asgari Lajayer, and Tess Astatkie

11. Seed Priming and Seedling Pre-Treatment in Regulating Secondary Metabolism for Stress Tolerance
Subir Ghosh, Kuntal Bera, Puspendu Dutta, and Sanjoy Sadhukhan

12. Tools and Approaches for Assessing Stress-Responsive Secondary Metabolites to Design Climate-Smart Crops
Debapriya Rajlakshmi Das, Monolina Sarkar, and Anindita Paul

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: Aryadeep Roychoudhury, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, India.

Aryadeep Roychoudhury, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has over 20 years of research experience in the field of abiotic stress responses in plants with perspectives of physiology, molecular biology, and cell signaling under diverse stress conditions. Dr. Roychoudhury is currently handling several government-funded projects on abiotic stress responses in rice and supervising five PhD students as Principal Investigator. To date, he has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books of international and national repute. He has edited many books from reputed publishers and has also guest edited several special journal issues. He is a regular reviewer of articles in high-impact international journals, a life member of several scientific associations and societies, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2019, conferred by the International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, at the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. His name is included in the Stanford University’s List of World’s Top 2% Scientists. Dr. Roychoudhury received his BSc (Hons.) in Botany from Presidency College, Kolkata, and his MSc in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He did his PhD at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, under Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.




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