"Intense farming and irrigation practices are the important causes of salinity which limit plant growth and productivity. Salinity has now impacted 6 % of the total and 33 % of the irrigated land. The severest salinity problem has arisen in semiarid or arid lands when they were subjected to excessive irrigation which turned hundreds of hectares of cultivated fertile lands into saline lands. When a change in salinity around the environment of a plant exceeds to a certain threshold level, the morphology and physiology of the plants are affected. This book emphasizes the menace of salinity in agriculture and crop production. It encompasses various studies on plants sensitive to salt (glycophytes) and tolerant to salt (halophytes). This book includes diversity of glycophytes and halophytes, effects of salinity on different stages of growth and development, ion homeostasis and cellular ion transport, their photosynthetic responses, effects on biological nitrogen fixation, redox regulation and phytohormonal adjustment, significance of mineral nutrients in combating salinity in food crops. The most significant feature of the present book is its extensive coverage of genomics, metabolomics, ionomics, proteomics and transcriptomics approach which provide a betterunderstanding towards salt and its interaction with plants. This book is beneficial for the students of stress physiology, environmental sciences, agronomy, life sciences and crop sciences at university level"--
Preface; Halophytes: Definition and Classification; Plant Response to
Salt Stress: Effect on Growth and Tolerance Mechanisms; Photosynthetic
Responses of Plants against Salt Stress; Salt Stress Tolerance Mechanism in
Crop Plants vis-į-vis Photosynthesis; ROS and RNS as Key Players of Salt
Stress Response in Plants; Impact of Salinity Stress on Biological Nitrogen
Fixation of Terrestrial Plants; Salt Stress in Plants: From Gene to
Biotechnology; Genomics, Physiology and Molecular Breeding Approaches for
Improving Crop Productivity under Salt Stress: Progress and Prospects;
Genomic and Molecular Aspects of Salt Tolerance and Accumulation; Metabolite
Approaches in Understanding Salt Stress in Plants; Transcriptomic Studies and
Characterization of Transcription Factors During Salt Stress; Significance of
Mineral Nutrients in Combating Salinity in Food Crops; The Use of Plants and
Associated Microorganisms in The Phytoremediation of Salt-Affected Soils;
Microbial Solutions to Mitigate Salt Stress in Food Crops; Effect of
Different Seed-Priming Methods on the Subsequent Salt Stress Response of
Cauliflower Seedlings: A Case Study; Index.
Prabhat Kumar Srivastava, PhD Assistant Professor of Botany, KS Saket PG College, Ayodhya, India Jitendra Kumar, PhD Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, Mohaan Road, Lucknow, Sheo Mohan Prasad, India
