Advances in Plant Physiology: Vol. 13
Contents: Section I: Nutriophysiology and Mineral Nutrient Stresses: 1. Physiological and molecular appproaches to improve crop tolerance to mineral nutrient deficiency and heavy metal toxicity/Bhupinder Singh, Pratibha, Chandan Kumar Gupta, Sumedha Ahuja, Kalidindi Usha and Raghu Nath Pandey. 2. Role of mineral nutrients in physiology, ripening and storability of fruits/Vijay Paul, Rakesh Pandey, Ramesh K.V. and Atar Singh. 3. Phytonutrients in potato/R. Ezekie. 4. Nutrient stress induced oxidative damage in plants/Nalini Pandey. 5. Change in global climatic pattern and the perils of grain yield loss and iron stress in rice plant/P K Mohapatra, E Kariali, B B Panda and A Das. Section II: Environmental Stresses: Molecular and Physiological Aspects: 6. Environmental stresses and transgenics: role of Zfp (Zat) gene in multiple stress tolerance in plants/Avinash Chandra Rai, Major Singh and Kavita Shah. 7. An overview on QTLs linked to physio-morphological traits under water-limited conditions in rice (Oryza sativa L.)/Beena R. 8. Crosstalk between genes in salicylic acid and jasmonic acid mediated signaling in plants exposed to environmental stresses/Indra Singh and Kavita Shah. 9. Heat stress responses of wheat and other plants/A. Hemantaranjan, Pradeep Kumar Patel, Radha Singh and Abhishek Kumar Srivastava. 10. Salinity stress response in plants: physiochemical and biotechnological approaches/Sananda Mondal and Bandana Bose. 11. Reactive oxygen species: dual role in seed physiology/Giti Verma and Samir Sharma. Section III: Heavy Metal Stresses: 12. Phytochelatins: natural chelating agents involved in plant protection/Enrique J. Baran. 13. Metal toxicity, production of reactive oxygen species and their consequences in plants/Rajneesh Kumar Srivastava, Rama Shanker Dubey. 14l Impact of heavy metal induced oxidative stress in plant system: Some aspects/M.K. Adak, C. Mandal, N.Ghosh and N. Dey. Section IV: Stress Control Measures and Phytoremediation: 15. Biodrainage: a waterlogging and salinity control option/C. Rani, R. Angrish, O.P. Toky, K.S. Datta, V. Arora and S. Chawla. 16. Postharvest changes in fresh commodities with special reference to nutraceuticals under abiotic stress conditions/P. Jeyakumar. 17. Phytoremediation: tool for in situ risk reduction/Padmanabh Dwivedi and Prasann Kumar. Section V: Plant Growth Regulators: 18. The journey of long-chain aliphatic alcohols since 1933: bioregulating properties of long-chain aliphatic alcohols - a review/Nisha Raghava and Ravindra Pratap Raghava. Subject Index.
The plant physiology and plant molecular biology research group has evidently endorsed the new directions taken by the treatise to attract the pre-eminent scientists in plant biology/plant sciences. Certainly, the preparation of Volume 13 of the International Treatise Series on Advances in Plant Physiology has been done entirely due to commendable contributions from Scientists of Eminence in unequivocal fields. Unquestionably, our objective is to publish innovative science of value across the broad disciplinary range of the treatise. I restate that this plan has been undertaken with a view to strengthen the indistinguishable efforts to recognize the outcome of meticulous research in some of the very sensible and stirring areas of Plant Physiology-Plant Molecular Physiology/ Biology-Plant Biochemistry for holistic development of the science of agriculture and crop production under changing climate. I am ardent to keep on the exceptionality and the prologue of excellent new ideas ensuring that the treatise calls to the best science done across the full extent of modern plant biology, in general, and plant physiology, in particular. In Volume 13, with inventive applied research, attempts have been made to bring together much needed eighteen review articles by forty-eight contributors especially from premier institutions of India for this volume. All the eighteen review articles have been grouped in five broad sections, which on the whole highlight the necessity to find out evidence from the fields of plant nutriophysiology (physiology of plant mineral nutrients) and abiotic stresses under changing climate along with their control.
