Plant Response to Environmental Stress

Contents: Preface. I. Climate Change: 1. Enhanced UV-B radiation affect ethylene production and the expression of ACC synthase gene in tomato leaves/An Lizhe, Liu Yanhong, Chen Tuo, Zhang Manxiao, Hou Zongdong, Feng Huyuan, Xu Shijian and Wang Xun-Ling. 2. Repair effect of laser treatment on injured broad bean by UV-B radiation/Xun-Ling Wang, Zhi Qi, Ming Yue and Han Rong. 3. Changes in polyamine content in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) leaves exposed to enhanced UV-B radiation/An Lizhe, Tang Hongguan, Liu Yanhong, Manxiao Zhang, Tuo Chen, Shijian Xu and Xunling Wang. 4. The roles of ascorbate-glutathione system and ABA in UV-B resistance of wheat/Tuo Chen, Junying Sun, Lizhe An, Huyuan Feng and Xunling Wang. 5. Intraspecific responses of phenology, growth photosynthetic characteristics and C in ten soybean cultivars exposed to enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation/Huyuan Feng, Lizhe An, Tuo Chen, Shijian Xu, Weiya Qiang, Manxiao Zhang and Xunling Wang. 6. Effect of ozone on growth and yield of potato (Solanum tuberosum)/C.K. Varshney and Usha Mina. 7. The effect of UV-B radiation on membrane lipid peroxidation mechanisms in broad bean leaves/Tuo Chen, Shugui Hou, Lizhe An, Huyuan Feng and Xunling Wang. II. Environmental Pollution and Biodiversity: 8. Floral diversity of Punjab state: a review/Neelima Jerath, Puja and Jatinder Chadha. 9. Environmental pollution and biodiversity: a case of aquatic macrophyte vegetation of lake Phewa Tal, Nepal/Purushottam Shrestha. 10. CITES and conservation of plant diversity in India/Anil K. Goel and S.C. Sharma. 11. Allelopathic effect of dried leaves of Lantana camara L./J. Gupta and M.K. Saxena. III. Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation and Bioindication: 12. Detecting air pollution with plants/J.N.B. Bell, L. Davies and N.S. Jarraud. 13. Aquatic plants as water quality indicators in two ponds of Kolkata/Gautam Mukhopadhyay and Anjana Dewanji. 14. Preliminary evaluation of the effects of sludge in the remediation of soils polluted by industrial atmospheric emissions/Josanidia Santana Lima, Alessandra Argolo de Espirito Santo, Sildia Santos Gomes, Ariomar de Castro Aguiar and Paulo Andre Salles. 15. Aquatic vegetation as indicator of the sustainability of fresh water systems: interactions with the land surface/Osvaldo A. Fernandez, Roberto J.L. Vazquez, Nora S. Sidorkewicj, Mario R. Sabbatini and Jose A. Marchena. 16. A review of low cost adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals and dyes/Rashmi Sanghi and Bani Bhattacharya. 17. Water hyacinth (eichhornia crassipes) problems and remedy/S.M. Mathur and Pratap Singh. 18. Improvement of rhizobium leguminosarum biov. trifolii competency via rhizobiotoxin-gene transfer/M.S. Abdel-Salam, M.M. Abd El-Halim, S.A. Ibrahim, A.B. Mohamed and S.E. Abo-Aba. 19. Characterisation and identification of numerically abundant bacteria isolated from distillery effluent contaminated site growing Cyperus papyrus rhizosphere/Ram Chandra and Sonal Chaturvedi. 20. Environmental studies on bryophytes of Mussoorie (Western Himalayas)/Virendra Nath, Ashish Kumar Asthana and Shalini Sharma. 21. Wood rotting macrofungi as biosorbent for toxic heavy metal removal/Anjali Pandey, Leela Iyengar and C. Venkobachar. 22. Metal-tolerance of chloris barbata, a grass obtained from a chloralkali plant site at Ganjam, Orissa/Barnali Baisakhi, Jita Patra, V. Vijayan and Brahma B. Panda. 23. Bioremediation of urban pollution through green belt development: a case study/Ram Jee Srivastava, P. Dubey, Ashwani Kumar and K. Prasad. 24. Spearmint MSS-5 an efficient genotype for phytoremediation/A. Misra and P. Singh. 25. Kinetic aspects of Zn uptake by duckweed Lemna minor L/Rudra  Deo Tripathi and Steven Smith. 26. Utilization of duck-weeds as biofertilizers to clean the aquatic environment/A.K. Tripathi and A.K. Awasthi. 27. Biochemical responses of certain crops grown in region under air pollution stress/K. Haryani and P.S. Dubey. IV. Plant Response to Environmental Pollution: 28. Effects of air pollution on vegetation in Central Mexico: a brief overview/L.I. de Bauer. 29. Cytoplasmic streaming velocity of Nitella as a new aquatic pollution bioassay technique/Tasneem Fatma and Sudhir Kumar Pandey. 30. Parameters for detecting effects of ionizing radiations on plants/Subodh Kumar Datta. 31. Impact of chlorine gas pollutant on cultivated crops/Wafaa M. Amer and Mohamed S.A. Soliman. 32. Role of leaf surface structures in plant resistance to auto-exhaust pollution/Amit Pal, K. Kulshreshtha and K.J. Ahmad. 33. Physiological control of potassium flux pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells: interaction with toxic metals/Upendra N. Rai and Julian C. Collins. 34. A physiochemical approach towards understanding of salicylic acid-mediated modification in salinity response of Brassica campestris/Y. Vimala and Maneesha K. Gupta. 35. Quantitative characteristics of the leaf structure in plants under industrial pollution/I.M. Kravkina and I.V. Lyanguzova. 36. Effect of tannery effluent on Oscillatoria/N. Mohan, J. Mohan, Satyendra K. Srivastava, Somesh Gupta and Pradeep Singh. 37. Effect of fly-ash incorporation on growth and yield of triticum aestivum L. var. Malaviya 234/S.B. Agrawal, Anoop Singh and Afrooz A. Mir. 38. Changes in nutrient contents in aquatic macrophytes grown for the treatment of dairy waste water/B.D. Tripathi and Alka R. Upadhyay. V. Environmental Impact Assessment: 39. Environment-friendly technologies vis-a-vis environmental conservation/Padam B. Rastogi. 40. Biodeterioration of botanical materials and their management/Arun Arya and Chitra Arya. 41. A reference based "Nepalese Biotic Score" and its application in the midland hills and lowland plains for river water quality assessment and management"/S. Sharma and O. Moog. 42. Impact and environmental factors on the habitat of Alectra chitrakutensis (Rau) Prasad and Dixit near Sphaticshila, Chitrakoot, Satna District, Madhya Pradesh, India/S.N. Mishra, G.K. Trivedi and O.P. Shukla. 43. Trophic status of a high altitude Himalayan Lake, Lake Naukuchiyatal, as reflected by physico-chemical parameters/Pushplata Bhagat and P.K. Gupta. VI. Environmental Education, Mass Awareness, Legislation and Economic Impact: 44. Ethnobotanical heritage and conservation of cultural diversity of Bhotia tribes in Uttaranchal/K.R. Arya. 45. Environmental education in botanic gardens: challenges and opportunities in the new millennium/R.K. Roy. 46. Bio-diversity conservation and eco-education for mitigating pollution/A.N. Sharga. 47. Ethical contribution of Gond tribes in conservation of medicinal plants in Madhya Pradesh, India/Kamla Kulshreshtha, Pankaj Kumar Srivastava, Chandra Sekhar Mohanty, Mukta Singh and Sailendra Singh. VII. Improvement, Protection and Utilization of Plants in Relation to Environment: 48. Anatomical abnormalities in pine trees wood (pinus sylvestris I.) after Chernobyl accident/Mirela Tulik. 49. Mangrove diversity along the South-East Coast of India since Holocene: a palynostratigraphical record/Anjum Farooqui. 50. Water quality assessment of streams in the Bagmati River Catchment, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, using macroinvertebrates and diatoms/S. Sharma, I. Juettner and B.M. Dahal. 51. Microflora analysis of vermicompost, vermicast and gut of red earthworm/Kayo Devi Yami, Sheela Bhattarai and Shreekant Adhikari. 53. Effect of some neem based formulations on the metamorphic development of gram pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera hub. (Lepidoptera: noctuidae)/N.K. Neoliya and D. Singh. Author index. Subject index.

"The book entitled Plant Response to Environmental Stress is an outcome of selected presentations made during the International Conference on Plants and Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-2). It contains contributions from leading subject experts from 21 countries. The volume has been structured under seven sections viz., climate change; environmental pollution and biodiversity; environmental biotechnology; bioremediation and bioindication; mass awareness; legislation and economic impact; and improvement, protection and utilization of plants in relation to environment. This break up broadly reflects the scientific sessions, which were organized during ICPEP-2.

The book addresses the diversities of environmental contamination, evaluates the problems and disturbances, which they cause to the biotic as well as abiotic components of the ecosystems, and indicates strategies that are being developed to salvage the situation.

The book is an effort to bring together in one volume the enormous body of knowledge that has accumulated regarding the impact of pollution on plants. The book will advance scientific research on environmental problems, promote global awareness regarding the severity of the problem and may hopefully stimulate corrective measures.

The book should interest not only the students and researchers of environmental botany, ecology and forestry, but also those who love plants and have any interest in global environmental health."