"Global climate changes and environmental challenges have led to extensive research on major signaling pathways of plant growth regulators like jasmonates, salicylates and ethylene, strigolactones, etc., in the last two decades. With their potential to enhance the adaptability of plants to biotic as well as abiotic stresses while regulating key growth and developmental phenomena, jasmonates are a promising solution to a growing global food shortage problem. This new book, Biotechnological Applications ofJasmonates: A Group of Less Well-Known Plant Growth Regulators, details the practical applications of jasmonates in agriculture: their multifunctional role in stress tolerance, their role in growth and development, as well as their protective role duringheavy metal stress The book provides extensive information on jasmonate structure, biosynthesis, signaling, and practical applications of jasmonates in horticulture. It also discusses their role in plant growth and development, detailing on the cross-talk of jasmonates with secondary metabolites, antioxidants, and secondary messengers and their role in mediating the stress responses. It further delves into the cross talk of jasmonates with other phytohormones during abiotic stress tolerance. The protective role of jasmonates during heavy metal stress is explored, and other topics covered include the role of jasmonates in regulation of growth and development, biosynthetic pathways, role of jasmonates during stressful conditions, and the signal transduction cascades involved during the jasmonate-induced regulation of growth and development. Highlighting the key advancements in jasmonate research in the past two decades, this book will prove an ideal source of information for a wide scientific audience, including students and research scholars"--
Explores practical applications of jasmonates in agriculture: their multifunctional role in stress tolerance, their role in growth and development, as well as their protective role during heavy metal stress. Provides information on jasmonate structure, biosynthesis, signaling, and practical applications of jasmonates in horticulture.
Global climate changes and environmental challenges have led to extensive research on major signaling pathways of plant growth regulators such as jasmonates, salicylates and ethylene, and strigolactones in the last two decades. With their potential to enhance the adaptability of plants to biotic as well as abiotic stresses while regulating key growth and developmental phenomena, jasmonates are a promising solution to a growing global food shortage problem. This new book explores the practical applications of jasmonates in agriculture: their multifunctional role in stress tolerance, their role in growth and development, as well as their protective role during heavy metal stress.
Introduction
1. Practical Applications of Jasmonates in Agriculture
2.
Fragrant Signals (Jasmonates) in Growth and Development
3. Cross-Talk of
Jasmonates with Secondary Metabolites, Antioxidants, and Secondary Messengers
4. Multifunctional Role of Jasmonates in Stress Tolerance
5. Interplay of
Methyl Jasmonate with Other Phytohormones During Abiotic Stress Tolerance: An
Overview
6. Role of Jasmonates in Plant Growth and Development
7. An overview
of Jasmonate; biosynthesis and plant defense
8. Unravelling the Protective
Role of Jasmonates During Heavy Metal Stress
Tariq Ahmad Dar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Sri Pratap College (affiliated with Cluster University), Srinagar, India, where he is engaged in the teaching of plant physiology, biodiversity, plant ecology and taxonomy, cell and molecular biology, crop genetics, and plant breeding. He is involved in enhancing growth, yield, and active constituents of medicinal and aromatic plants using plant growth regulators like jasmonates, gibberellins, and depolymerized polysaccharides. He has published his research and presented his work at national and international conferences as well.
Bilal Ahmad, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir, India, where he teaches plant physiology and biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, and plant ecology. He has researched the influence of plant growth promoters, radiation-processed polysaccharides, and nanoparticles on various medicinal plants under normal and perturbed soil environments, particularly heavy metal stress. He has presented his research at a number of national and international conferences and has received several awards. Dr. Ahmad has authored 36 research papers and edited books with international publishers. He is also a reviewer for several journals of international repute.
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he is also Head (Plant Biotechnology Research Unit) at the Princess Dr. Najlaa Bint Saud Al Saud Center for Distinguished Research in Biotech. A prolific author and editor, he is also a visiting professor at Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and was formerly affiliated with universities in India, Turkey, China, and Malaysia. Prof. Hakeem has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in plant ecophysiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, London.
