Description
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Volume 1 - Biological Techniques presents the latest technologies used by scientists for improvement the crop production and explores the various roles of these technologies for the enhancement of crop productivity and inhibition of pathogenic bacteria that can cause disease.This resource provides a comprehensive review of how proteomics, genomics, transcriptomics, ionomics, and micromics are a pathway to improve plant stress tolerance to increase productivity and meet the agricultural needs of the growing human population. This valuable resource will help any scientist have a better understanding of environmental stresses to improve resource management within a world of limited resources.- Includes the most recent advances methods and applications of biotechnology to crop science- Discusses different techniques of genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and nanotechnology- Promotes the prevention of potential diseases to inhibit bacteria postharvest quality of fruits and vegetable crops by advancing application and research- Presents a thorough account of research results and critical reviews
Table of Contents
1. Genomic Approaches and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants2. Metabolomics role in Crop improvement3. Transcription Factors and Environmental Stresses in Plants4. Plant Resistance Under Cold Stress: Metabolomics, Proteomics and Genomic Approaches5. Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance6. Bt Crops: A Sustainable Approach Towards Biotic Stress Tolerance7. Modern Tools for Enhancing Crop Adaptation to Climatic Changes8. Interactions of Nano-particles (NPs) with Plants: An Emerging Prospective in Agriculture Industry9. Role of miRNAs in Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in Plants10. Gene Silencing: A Novel Cellular Defence Mechanism Improving Plant Productivity Under Environmental Stresses11. The Role of Carbohydrates in Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses12. Role of Glucosinolates in Plant Stress Tolerance13. Plant responses to Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn) and Zinc (Zn) deficiency stress14. Role of Trace Elements in Alleviating Environmental Stress15. Nutritional Stress in Dystrophic Savanna Soils of the Orinoco Basin: Biological Responses to Low N and P Availabilities16. Silicon and Selenium: Two vital trace elements that confer abiotic stress tolerance to plants17. Herbicides, pesticides and plant tolerance: An overview18. Effects of Humic Materials on Plant Metabolism and Agricultural Productivity19. Climate Change and Potential Impacts on Quality of Fruit and Vegetable Crops20. Interplays of Plant Circadian Clock and Abiotic Stress Response Networks21. Development of Water Saving Technique for Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) Under Arid Environment of Punjab, Pakistan
