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.- Highlights cost-effective and eco-friendly biostimulant technologies for the sustainable development of agricultural crops- Presents cross-disciplinary insights from agronomy, plant physiology, agricultural science, biotechnology, and molecular biology- Written by global experts with a focus on sustainable agriculture and climate-resilient crop production
Table of Contents
1. An overview of the use and importance of biostimulants in agriculture2. Biostimulants in mitigation of drought stress in crop plants3. Biostimulants in mitigation of cold stress in crop plants4. Application of plant growth-promoting bacteria in crops for salt stress tolerance5. Role of biochar in drought stress tolerance in agricultural crops6. Biostimulants for waterlogging stress in crops7. Role of biochar supplementation in mitigating salt stress in plants8. Nanoformulations to boost growth and salinity tolerance in crop plants9. Effects of essential oil-based nanoparticles on the plant defense system10. Enhancing crop heat and drought tolerance with karrikins (KARs)11. Plant growth-promoting bacteria for drought tolerance in crops12.. Biostimulants and plant homeostasis13. Role of natural biostimulants (seaweed extracts, humic acids, beneficial bacteria, and fungi) in leguminous crops14. Exopolysaccharides-producing bacteria: their use in arid agriculture15. Polyamines and their role in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants16. Polyamines and hormonal crosstalk: enhancing plant resilience17. Mitigation of salt stress in agricultural crops through various plant growth regulators18. Exploring the potential of biostimulants for enhancing drought stress resistance in cereal crops19. Halophilic bacteria stimulate plant growth and improve the affected soil20. From sea to soil: an exploration of seaweed extracts as natural biostimulants for crop improvement21. Role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in abiotic stress tolerance and plant growth regulation22. Plant growth-promoting bacteria for thermotolerance in plants23. Plant-based biostimulants for abiotic stress management: an emerging sustainable agriculture approach24. Underlying mechanisms responsible for abiotic stress responses and defense adaptation in plants25. Plant responses to abiotic stress and mitigation strategies26. Conclusion and future perspectives of biostimulant-mediated mitigation of salt, drought, and heat stress in plants
