Plant Signaling Molecule: Role and Regulation Under Stressful Environments explores tolerance mechanisms mediated by signaling molecules in plants for achieving sustainability under changing environmental conditions. Including a wide range of potential molecules, from primary to secondary metabolites, the book presents the status and future prospects of the role and regulation of signaling molecules at physiological, biochemical, molecular and structural level under abiotic stress tolerance. This book is designed to enhance the mechanistic understanding of signaling molecules and will be an important resource for plant biologists in developing stress tolerant crops to achieve sustainability under changing environmental conditions.
- Focuses on plant biology under stress conditions
- Provides a compendium of knowledge related to plant adaptation, physiology, biochemistry and molecular responses
- Identifies treatments that enhance plant tolerance to abiotic stresses
- Illustrates specific physiological pathways that are considered key points for plant adaptation or tolerance to abiotic stresses
1. Signaling Molecules in Ecophysiological Response Mechanisms of
Salt-Stressed Plants
2. Stress responsive signaling molecules and genes under stressful
environments in plants
3. Engineering signaling molecules to improve abiotic stress tolerance in
crop plants
4. Genetic engineering/Genome editing approaches to modulate signaling
processes in abiotic stress tolerance
5. Measurement of Signaling Molecules Ca2+, RSS, RCS, RNS and ROS in Plant
Samples
6. Drought tolerance in Plants: Role of signaling molecules and its molecular
mechanisms and regulation
7. Crop improvement of cereals through manipulation of signaling pathways in
response to drought stress
8. Role and regulation of ROS and antioxidants as a signaling molecule in
response to abiotic stresses
9. Role and regulation of plant phenolics in abiotic stress tolerance: an
overview
10. Bioactive molecules as regulatory signals in plant responses to abiotic
stresses
11. Biochemical and molecular regulation of phenylpropanoids pathway under
abiotic stresses
12. Role and regulation of glucose as a signal molecule to salt stress
13. Role of sugars in abiotic stress signalling in plant
14. Methylglyoxal: a novel signaling molecule in plant responses to abiotic
stress
15. Role of trehalose and regulation of its levels as a signal molecule to
abiotic stresses in plants
16. Sugar and phytohormones regulates plant growth and development under in
vitro condition
17. Role of mineral nutrients in abiotic stress tolerance revisiting the
associated signaling mechanisms
18. Sulfur availability potentiates phytohormones-mediated action in plants
19. Role and regulation of plant hormones as a signal molecule in response to
abiotic stresses
20. Role and regulation of auxin signaling in abiotic stress tolerance
21. The Regulatory Signaling of Gibberellin Metabolism and Its Crosstalk with
Phytohormones in Response to Plant Abiotic Stresses
22. Abscisic acid in plant abiotic stress signaling and responses
23. Salicylic acid-mediated defense mechanisms to abiotic stress tolerance
24. Role of methyl jasmonates in salt stress tolerance in crop plants
25. Insights into the nitric oxide mediated stress tolerance in plants
26. Brassinosteroid induced signaling is a complex interplay of ROS, NADPH
oxidase and MAPK mediated biotic and abiotic stress acclimation in plants
27. Role and regulation of osmolytes and ABA interaction in salt and drought
stress tolerance
28. Regulatory role of proline in heat stress tolerance: modulation by
salicylic acid
29. Osmolyte diversity, distribution and their biosynthetic pathways
30. Role and regulation of osmolytes as signaling molecules to abiotic stress
tolerance
31. Proteomics insights into salt stress signaling in plants
32. Role of heat shock proteins and its signaling under abiotic stress
33. C4/CAM facultative photosynthesis as a means to improve plant sustainable
productivity under abiotic-stressed conditions: regulatory mechanisms and
biotechnological implications
34. Protein linases and phosphatases in stress transduction - role in crop
improvement
35. Nanoparticles and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Synthesis, action
and signaling mechanisms
Dr. M. Iqbal R. Khans current research interests are the physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in flooding tolerance and looking for suitable germplasm donors for breeding purpose. Working on the metabolism of plants under different abiotic stresses, Dr. Khan has found a significant role of phytohormones in the regulation of plant growth and development and have suggested that phytohormones play an important in controlling stress responses and interacts in coordination with each other for defense signal networking to fine tune tolerance mechanisms. Dr. Khan has published more than 35 journal articles, 07 book chapters and has edited two books. He has received various research fellowships including UGC-MANF, DBT-RA, SERB-DST Young scientist, SERB-NPDF and IRRI-PDF. He has been recognized as Young Scientist of the Year, receiving the award from Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, India and Junior Scientist of the Year, receiving the award from National Environmental Science Academy New Delhi, India. He has been guest editor of Ethylene: A key regulatory molecule in plants" in Frontiers in Plant Science. Dr. Palakolanu Sudhakar Reddy is a Scientist (DST-INSPIRE faculty fellow) working under the Cell, Molecular biology and Genetic engineering theme at ICRISAT. He has completed his PhD from International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, where he worked on Identification and characterization of the Heat Shock Proteins from Pennisetum glaucum. He was an integral part of the team for developing high-throughput, low-cost methodologies for the isolation of promoters and genes, sequencing for phage DNA and identification of stable reference genes for qPCR studies. He has been awarded with several International and National awards, including Leibniz-DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship from German Academic Exchange Service, Germany, Young Scientist and INSPIRE Faculty Awards from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. He is associate fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences from 2015. He has worked in Germany and Philippines on genomics and molecular aspects of abiotic stress tolerance and genome editing. He has published more than 32 research articles in international peer reviewed journals and also has 5 book chapters and a patent to his credit. He is a reviewer of several reputed international journals, including Frontiers in plant science, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, BMC Genomics, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Gene and PLoS ONE.
Area of expertise:
Functional genomics, Gene expression, Molecular biology and Genome editing Antonio Ferrante holds a PhD in advanced technologies in horticultural science from the Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Pisa Italy. He was a visiting researcher at the University California, Davis, and a visiting teaching professor with ERASMUS program in Cardiff University (2015) and Almeria University (2017) and has been a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences. He has authored more than 200 international publications in peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Nafees A. Khan research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of hormonal and nutritional regulation of plant growth with special emphasis on abiotic stress vis-a-vis photosynthetic efficiency and abiotic stress tolerance. He has received multiple recognitions of his work including recognition as a top scientist in a study conducted by Stanford University and published in Plos Journal He is highly cited and received a UGC Mid-Career Award in 2018.
