Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought, and Heat Stress (Biostimulants and Protective Biochemical Agents)

Naeem, M. (EDT)/ Gill, Sarvajeet Singh (EDT)

Academic Press Inc（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 500 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780443334573
• DDC分類 631.8

Full Description

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 responses in crop plants
3. Biostimulants in the alleviation of cold stress responses in crop plants
4. Application of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) in salt stress tolerance in crop plants
5. Role of biochar in drought stress tolerance in agricultural crop
6. Role of Biostimulants in crop resilience and resistance
7. Role of biochar in mitigating salt stress in plants
8. Nano-formulations to boost growth and salinity tolerance
9. Effect of essential oil-based nanoparticles on plant defense systems
10. Mitigation of heat and cold stress in agricultural crops
11. Significance of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) in drought stress tolerance in plants
12. Biostimulants homeostasis in plants
13. Role of natural biostimulants (humic acids, seaweed extracts, beneficial bacteria and fungi) in leguminous crops
14. Regulation of physiological and molecular mechanism in plants under salt and drought stress: Significance of biostimulants
15. Exopolysaccharides producing bacteria: Their use in arid agriculture
16. Polyamines: Used as biostimulators in commercial crops for mitigating abiotic stress
17. Mitigation of salt stress in annual and perennial crops through divers PGRs
18. Drought stress tolerance in cereal crops: Role of biostimulants in crop resilience and resistance
19. Halophilic Bacteria: Stimulate plant growth and improves salt affected soil
20. Mitigation of drought stress in plants using beneficial bacteria
21. Algal extracts act as biostimulant of growth and quality to salt stressed vegetables
22. Seaweed extracts used as a potential biostimulant in crop improvement
23. Arbuscularmycorrhizal fungi tolerance against environmental stress
24. Role of melatonin in drought stress mitigation
25. Plant based Biostimulants for abiotic stress management: An emerging approach in sustainable agriculture
26. Conclusion and future perspective of biostimulants mediated mitigation of salt, drought and heat stress in plants