Advances in Plant Physiology : Vol. 17
Contents: I. Abiotic Stresses and Plant Productivity: Physiological and Molecular Perspectives: 1. Molecular Physiology of Dehydration Stress Responses in Plant: A Review/Hrishikesh Upadhyaya, Bhaben Tanti and Sanjib Kumar Panda. 2. Exercise of Different Promoters in ABA Mediated Pathways Under Dehydration Stress In Crops Species/M.K. Adak. 3. Drought, Agricultural Practices and Private Sector Lending for Sustainability in India/Swati Agrawal, Manoj Kumar, Prerna Singh and Kavita Shah.4. Small Heat Shock Proteins: The Thermal Stress Managers/Ankita Chandola, Vijai Pandurangam and Kamla Dhyani. 5. Physiological Approach of Heat Tolerance in Wheat: A Good Tool to Screen Wheat for Heat Tolerance/Kamla Dhyani, Ankita Chandola, Shweta Sahni and Alok Shukla. 6. Physiological Adaptations and Dynamics for Plant Productivity under Low Light Intensity/C. Aochen, J. Pohlong, S. S. Dutta, S. Pyngrope, S. Aochen and A. Pandey. 7. Abiotic Determinants of Tree Seedling Growth in Tropical Dry Forests/Sachchidanand Tripathi, Rahul Bhadauria, Pratap Srivastava, Rishikesh Singh and A. S. Raghubanshi. 8. Physiological Adaptation of Rice to Anaerobic Stress Conditions caused by Flooding During Germination and Early Growth and Its Implications in Crop Improvement/D. Vijayalakshmi, R. Naveen Kumar, C. Vijayalakshmi and M. Raveendran. 9. Cadmium Enrichment in Soil : Plant Physiological Manifestation/Tapas Kumar Pandit and Dhiman Mukherjee. 10. Legume Symbiosis under Abiotic Stresses- A Review/Ranju Gulati. 11. Introduction to Phenomics and Its Application in Physiological Breeding/A. Nishant Bhanu, H.R. Bhandari, M.N. Singh and K. Srivastava. 12. Image-based Plant Phenotyping/Ruchi Bansal, Jyoti Kumari, Rashmi Yadav and Sundeep Kumar. 13. An Insight in to Signal Transduction Pathways and the Roles of Phyto-hormones : An Emerging Challenge in Plant Physiological Research/Md. Afjal Ahmad, Savita Jangde and Pravin Prakash. 14. Metal Toxicity in Plants: Induction of Oxidative Stress, Antioxidative Defense System, Metabolic Alterations and Phytoremediation/Arti Gautam and Rama Shanker Dubey. II. Plant Trace Elements in Plant Physiology: 15. Nickel and its Role in Plant Physiology/Enrique J. Baran. 16. Iodine: An Unique Element with Special Reference to Soil-Plant-Air System/Prasann Kumar and A. Hemantaranjan. III. Plant Functions Research in Agricultural Progression: 17. Plant Purple Acid Phosphatases: Structure and Functions/Enrique J. Baran. 18. Plant Lectins, Agricultural Advancements and Mammalian Toxicity/Prasann Kumar and Padmanabh Dwivedi. IV. Physiological Basis of Yield: 19. Physiological Basis of Yield Variation/A. K. Trivedi, G. Pandey and V. K. Singh. V. Nutraceuticals, Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Wealth: 20. Microalalgae as a Potential Source of Nutraceuticals and Pharmaceuticals/Surendra Singh, Ankita Kachhwaha and Rishibha Dixit. comprehensive Review: 21. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Wealth of India/Dhiman Mukherjee. Subject Index.
The conception of Volume 17 of the International Treatise Series on Advances in Plant Physiology has been made possible entirely due to worthy contributions from World Scientists, teachers and researchers of eminence in unequivocal fields. Scientists are well in search of specific and complete literature pertaining to meaningful research for the holistic development of agriculture. The undertaking of this Treatise Series on Plant Physiology is to genuinely categorize the insufficiencies in view of mounting consequential researches for increasing productivity, prosperity and sustainability of agriculture through influential and developing technologies for restructuring metabolic limitations most responsive to abiotic stress factors. Certainly, our idea is to recognize innovative science of value across the broad disciplinary range of the treatise. The aim is to make stronger the distinctive outcome of conscientious research in some of the very sensitive areas of Plant Physiology-Plant Molecular Physiology/ Molecular Biology that broadly highlights the recent developments and mechanisms underlying plant resilience to changing environments. This volume brings collectively much needed twenty-one review articles by fifty-one dedicated contributors for this volume assorted into five relevant sections, viz., Section I: Abiotic Stresses & Plant Productivity: Physiological & Molecular Perspectives; Section II:Plant Trace Elements in Plant Physiology; Section III: Plant Functions Research in Agricultural Progression; Section IV: Physiological Basis of Yield; Section V: Nutraceuticals, Medicinal & Aromatic Plant Wealth. This is commendable that the Volume 17 deals with challenges of ongoing international concern over the abiotic stresses under changing climate besides vital aspects related to image-based plant phenotyping; phenomics and its application in physiological breeding; trace elements; plant functions; physiological basis of yield variation; medicinal and aromatic plants and so on. Apart from fulfilling the acute need of this kind of select edition in different volumes for research teams and scientists engaged in various facets of plant sciences research in traditional and agricultural universities, institutes and research laboratories throughout the world, it would be extremely a constructive book and a voluminous reference material for acquiring advanced knowledge by post-graduate and Ph.D. scholars in response to the innovative courses in Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Environmental Sciences, Plant Pathology, Microbiology, Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry, Agronomy, Horticulture, and Botany. (jacket)
