Ebook: Environmental Stress in Plants: Biochemical and Physiological Mechanisms

Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on presently cultivated crops, they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants in noncultivated areas. A significant global problem in the improvement of agriculture is the major variation in annual crop yields due to variations in environmental stresses such as drought, flooding, salinity, and temperature variations. This summary presents current background and research knowledge on all important environmental stresses and their respective influence on plant growth, development and crop yield as well as on biochemical and physiological events within plant tissues in reaction to changing environmental conditions.

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Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on presently cultivated crops, they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants in noncultivated areas. A significant global problem in the improvement of agriculture is the major variation in annual crop yields due to variations in environmental stresses such as drought, flooding, salinity, and temperature variations. This summary presents current background and research knowledge on all important environmental stresses and their respective influence on plant growth, development and crop yield as well as on biochemical and physiological events within plant tissues in reaction to changing environmental conditions.

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Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on presently cultivated crops, they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants in noncultivated areas. A significant global problem in the improvement of agriculture is the major variation in annual crop yields due to variations in environmental stresses such as drought, flooding, salinity, and temperature variations. This summary presents current background and research knowledge on all important environmental stresses and their respective influence on plant growth, development and crop yield as well as on biochemical and physiological events within plant tissues in reaction to changing environmental conditions.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Water Use Efficiency in Water and Salt Stressed Lycopersicon pennellii and Lycopersicon esculentum Plants....Pages 3-16
Water Stress and Stem Conductivity....Pages 17-24
Metabolic Consequences of Seed Maturation Drying....Pages 25-26
Abscisic Acid as a Factor in Modifying Drought Resistance....Pages 27-37
Breeding Methods for Drought Resistance....Pages 39-40
Amino Acid Metabolism in Relation to Osmotic Adjustment in Plant Cells....Pages 41-62
Betaine Synthesis as a Component of Osmoregulation....Pages 63-63
Biochemical and Genetic Characterization of Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase....Pages 65-65
Osmotin: A Protein Associated with Osmotic Stress Adaptation in Plant Cells....Pages 67-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-98
Effects of Salinity on Plant Growth and Crop Yields....Pages 99-99
The Possible Role of Various Membrane Transport Mechanisms in Adaptation to Salinity....Pages 101-119
The Role of Calcium in the Regulation of Membrane and Cellular Growth Processes under Salt Stress....Pages 121-130
Mechanisms of Adaptation to Salinity in Cultured Glycophyte Cells....Pages 131-138
Reduced Growth Rate and Changes in Cell Wall Proteins of Plant Cells Adapted to NaCl....Pages 139-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-171
Aeration in Roots....Pages 173-194
Adenylate Energy Charge and Anaerobic Proteins....Pages 195-195
Anaerobic Induction of Lactate Dehydrogenase....Pages 197-206
Characterization of Nuclear Factors that Regulate Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Expression....Pages 207-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-216
Identifying the Anaerobic Proteins of Maize....Pages 217-224
The Response to Anaerobic Stress: Transcriptional Regulation of Genes for Anaerobically Induced Proteins....Pages 195-195
Front Matter....Pages 225-230
Molecular Changes in Membrane Lipids During Cold Stress....Pages 231-245
Plasma Membrane ATPase as a Key Site of Alteration by a Freeze-thaw Stress: Role in Recovery and Progressive Injury....Pages 247-247
Membrane Assembly during Acclimation to Low Temperature: Lipid-protein Interaction....Pages 249-257
Perturbation of Membrane Calcium as a Molecular Mechanism of Freezing Injury....Pages 259-265
Alterations of Gene Expression during the Induction of Freezing Tolerance in a Brassica napus Cell Suspension Culture....Pages 267-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-290
Genetic Diversity of Heat Shock Protein Synthesis in Cereal Plants....Pages 291-301
The Heat Shock Response in Plants: Short-Term Heat Treatment Regimes and Thermotolerance....Pages 303-315
Developmental Expression of Heat Shock Proteins in Higher Plants....Pages 317-317
Adaptation of Thermotolerance in Cowpea Suspension Cultures....Pages 319-330
Back Matter....Pages 331-342
....Pages 343-354