Plant Science & Botany

Physiology of Halophytes
Signaling, Omics, and Tolerance Mechanisms

Editors: Nivas Manohar Desai, PhD
Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje, PhD

Physiology of Halophytes

Now on Press
Pub Date: Forthcoming February/March 2025
Hardback Price: $250 US | £200 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781774917350
E-Book ISBN: 9781003504085
Pages: 508pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 20 color and 20 b/w illustrations


Reviews
“Highlights the important research outcome in halophytes. . . . A superb job of compiling chapters from contributing authors on a broad range of topics, including physiological and biochemical mechanisms, compatible solutes, signaling, regulatory components, in addition to halophilic cyanobacteria and microalgae, halophyte-associated microbes, endophytes, adaptive pathways. The book has also relevant chapters on the role of halophytes in eco-friendly environmental and agricultural practices and environmental clean-up. . . . A valuable knowledge resource for researchers, students, and policymakers looking to explore halophytes in sustainable agriculture.”
—From the Foreword by Prof. Suprasanna Penna, Director, Amity Institute of Biotechnology (AIB), Amity University, Maharashtra, India


Halophytes, salt-tolerant plants that grow in soils and waters with high salinity, are spectacular plants that can prove tremendously valuable to both man as well as nature due to their unique physiology, such as to enhance the productivity of crops in salt-affected soils, for land re-vegetation, to develop salt-tolerant crops, and to provide forage for cattle. This new book, Physiology of Halophytes: Signaling, Omics, and Tolerance Mechanisms, provides scientific knowledge and expertise on the mechanisms of plant responses to various environmental stresses.

The chapters in this volume provide comprehensive coverage of the molecular, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms behind salt tolerance on halophytes and saline adaptations. It provides an overview of metabolomic, proteomic, and ionomic adjustment and adaptive mechanisms of halophytes under salinity stress. It also focuses on the role of halophytes for sustainable, eco-friendly environmental and agricultural development. It provides an overview of endophytes-assisted salinity tolerance in halophytes while also discussing salt signaling in halophytes. It also covers some important specific halophytes, such Sonneratia sp., Sesuvium portulacastrum L., sand dune halophytes, etc.

The book provides a systematic review on physiological responses of halophytes to salinity, discussing adaptive pathways of halophytes and the prospects of increasing plant salinity tolerance. It covers reactive oxygen species and oxidative damage in halophytes under salt stress. Finally, it elaborates on the stress-mitigating proteins and osmolytes of halophytes.

This book, with its in-depth discussion on halophytes, will be useful for researchers, plant biologists, environmental biologists, agronomists, physiologists, faculty, and students. The book will also be helpful for further advancement of research in plant metabolism under salinity stress.

CONTENTS:
Foreword by Suprasanna Penna

Preface

1. Metabolomic Studies of Halophytes Under Salinity Stress
Vibha Gupta

2. Role of Halophyte-Microbes Duo in Environmental Clean-Up
Minal Trivedi, Divya Raul, and Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje

3. Endophyte-Assisted Salinity Tolerance in Halophytes
Deepak B. Shelke, Mahadev R. Chambhare, Kamlakar More, Hiralal B. Sonawane, and Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje

4. Salt Signaling in Halophytes
Samiksha A. Joshi

5. Metabolomic, Proteomic, and Ionomic Adjustment and Adaptive Mechanism of Halophytes
Ritu L. Jain

6. Habitat, Growth Response, and Adaptation Under Salinity in Sonneratia Sp.
Divya Raul, Ganesh P. Pawar, Ajit B. Telave, Jitendra R. Patil, and Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje

7. Physiology and Potential Applications of Sand Dune Halophytes
Ganesh Pawar and Ajit Telave

8. Physiological Responses of Halophytes to Salinity: A Review
Darshana Patil, Priyanka Gupta, and Avinash Patil

9. Adaptive Pathways of Halophytes and the Prospects of Increasing Plant Salinity Tolerance
Chirag U. Narayankar, Sudarshan T. Charapale, Umesh R. Pawar, Manasi S. Patil, and D. K. Gaikwad

10. Halophilic Cyanobacteria and Microalgae: Role in Environmental Clean-Up and Value-Added Products
Madhulika Gupta

11. Structural Hierarchy Imparts Salinity Stress Tolerance Improvement in the Halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum L.
Vinayak H. Lokhande

12. Halophytes: Prospectives and Perspectives for Sustainable, Eco-Friendly, Environmental, and Agricultural Development
Vinayak H. Lokhande

13. Physiological, Proteomics, and Metabolomics Approaches for Elucidation of Salinity and Alkalinity Tolerance of Halophytes
Asha Kumari, Monika Patel, and Asish Kumar Parida

14. Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Damage in Halophytes Under Salt Stress
Mali Ram Hindala, Ridhi Joshi, and Vidya Patni

15. Halophyte Adaptation is Nature‘s Prodigy for Environmental Changes
Laxmishree S. Chengala

16. Adaptive Strategies and Role of Endophytes in Halophytes for Amelioration of Salt Stress
Shreyasi Biswas and Mahuya Mukhopadhyay

17. Potential Role of Halophytes in Environmental Clean-Up
Bhushan P. Bhusare, Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje, Ramesh R. Sanap, and Amit D. Kale

18. Halophytes as Reservoirs of Stress-Mitigating Proteins and Osmolytes
Sunil P. Bhagat, Jayant P. Rathod, Vidya R. Kothari, Satyam D. Pawar, and Harichandra A. Nikule

19. Salicornia brachiata: A Potential Halophyte of Coastal Ecosystem Having Ecological and Economic Significance
Asish Kumar Parida and Monika Patel

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Nivas Manohar Desai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Protection, Sadguru Gadage Maharaj College, Karad, Satara District, Maharashtra, India

Nivas M. Desai, PhD, is a Fellow of the Association of Plant Science Research (FAPSR) as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Protection, Sadguru Gadage Maharaj College, Karad, Satara District, Maharashtra, India. With over a decade in the field of plant science research, Dr. Desai has a unique identity that shines through his more than 32 international and national publications. His research areas are marine botany, plant physiology, functional foods, and photochemistry. He is a recipient of a DST Fastrack Young Scientist Fellowship and has successfully completed a project on developing biofuel from marine cyanobacteria. He holds two Australian and two Indian patents. He has attended more than 30 international and national conferences. He is also the recipient of several young scientist awards and one research excellence award. He is the author of many book chapters and has edited six books.

Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje, PhD
Assistant Professor, R. K. Talreja College, Ulhasnagar (affiliated to the University of Mumbai), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Ganesh Chandrakant Nikalje, PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Botany at R. K. Talreja College, Ulhasnagar (affiliated to University of Mumbai), India. His major areas of research are unravelling the salt adaptation mechanism of halophytes, development of bio-saline agriculture, phytoremediation, endophyte-assisted growth promotion and stress tolerance in plants, and assessment of wild vegetables for nutritional and value-added products. He has received grants from the University of Mumbai for research projects and travel grants from DST-SERB, India. He earned his doctorate in Botany from Savitribai Phule Pune University and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, under the BARC-SPPU Collaborative PhD programme. He has completed his postdoctoral research at Gyongsang National University, South Korea, as a SERB-SIREFellow of Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India, India. He hasreceived an MS Swaminathan Research Excellence Award 2021 and a Young PlantScientist Award 2021 from the Association of Plant Science Researchers (APSR)and the Plantica Foundation Dehradun, India. He is a recognized adviser for PhD and MSc students at the University of Mumbai. He is serving as an editor and reviewer for several international journals. He has been invited as a resource person for different conferences and symposia. To date, he has published three books,23 research/review papers in international journals, and 16 book chapters inedited books for international publishers. 




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