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Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought, and Heat Stress provides up-to-date information on sustainable strategies to enhance the resilience of agricultural crops under adverse environmental conditions. As part of the Biostimulants and Protective Biochemical Agents series, this volume focuses on high-impact challenges and emerging opportunities in crop stress management.
Biostimulants represent a promising and effective approach to achieving sustainable agriculture. Widely regarded as renewable sources of plant nutrients, they can enhance crop productivity and improve soil health. Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in the use of diverse biostimulants—including plant growth-promoting fungi, rhizobacteria, seaweed extracts, and organic amendments—to increase nutrient use efficiency and boost plant tolerance to abiotic stresses.
This book covers a range of key biostimulant categories such as bacteria, algae, plant growth regulators (PGRs), plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), biochar, and other core approaches. It explores how specific biostimulants contribute to protecting and enhancing plant health and is the first comprehensive reference to focus exclusively on their role in safeguarding crop yields under salt, drought, and heat stress conditions.
Contents
1. An overview of the use and importance of biostimulants in agriculture
2. Biostimulants in mitigation of drought stress in crop plants
3. Biostimulants in mitigation of cold stress in crop plants
4. Application of plant growth-promoting bacteria in crops for salt stress tolerance
5. Role of biochar in drought stress tolerance in agricultural crops
6. Biostimulants for waterlogging stress in crops
7. Role of biochar supplementation in mitigating salt stress in plants
8. Nanoformulations to boost growth and salinity tolerance in crop plants
9. Effects of essential oil-based nanoparticles on the plant defense system
10. Enhancing crop heat and drought tolerance with karrikins (KARs)
11. Plant growth-promoting bacteria for drought tolerance in crops
12.. Biostimulants and plant homeostasis
13. Role of natural biostimulants (seaweed extracts, humic acids, beneficial bacteria, and fungi) in leguminous crops
14. Exopolysaccharides-producing bacteria: their use in arid agriculture
15. Polyamines and their role in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants
16. Polyamines and hormonal crosstalk: enhancing plant resilience
17. Mitigation of salt stress in agricultural crops through various plant growth regulators
18. Exploring the potential of biostimulants for enhancing drought stress resistance in cereal crops
19. Halophilic bacteria stimulate plant growth and improve the affected soil
20. From sea to soil: an exploration of seaweed extracts as natural biostimulants for crop improvement
21. Role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in abiotic stress tolerance and plant growth regulation
22. Plant growth-promoting bacteria for thermotolerance in plants
23. Plant-based biostimulants for abiotic stress management: an emerging sustainable agriculture approach
24. Underlying mechanisms responsible for abiotic stress responses and defense adaptation in plants
25. Plant responses to abiotic stress and mitigation strategies
26. Conclusion and future perspectives of biostimulant-mediated mitigation of salt, drought, and heat stress in plants
