Ebook: Salinity and Water Stress: Improving Crop Efficiency

Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income.

Presenting recent research findings on salt stress, water stress and stress-adapted plants, this book offers insights into new strategies for increasing the efficiency of crops under stressful environments. The strategies are based on conventional breeding and advanced molecular techniques used by plant physiologists, and are discussed using specific case studies to illustrate their potential. The book emphasizes the effects of environmental factors on specific stages of plant development, and discusses the role of plant growth regulators, nutrients, osmoprotectants and antioxidants in counteracting their adverse affects.

Synthesising updated information on mechansisms of stress tolerance at cell, tissue and whole-plant level, this book provides a useful reference text for post graduate students and researchers involved in the fields of stress physiology and plant physiology in general, with additional readership amongst researchers in horticulture, agronomy, crop science, conservation, environmental management and ecological restoration.

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Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income.

Presenting recent research findings on salt stress, water stress and stress-adapted plants, this book offers insights into new strategies for increasing the efficiency of crops under stressful environments. The strategies are based on conventional breeding and advanced molecular techniques used by plant physiologists, and are discussed using specific case studies to illustrate their potential. The book emphasizes the effects of environmental factors on specific stages of plant development, and discusses the role of plant growth regulators, nutrients, osmoprotectants and antioxidants in counteracting their adverse affects.

Synthesising updated information on mechansisms of stress tolerance at cell, tissue and whole-plant level, this book provides a useful reference text for post graduate students and researchers involved in the fields of stress physiology and plant physiology in general, with additional readership amongst researchers in horticulture, agronomy, crop science, conservation, environmental management and ecological restoration.

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Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income.

Presenting recent research findings on salt stress, water stress and stress-adapted plants, this book offers insights into new strategies for increasing the efficiency of crops under stressful environments. The strategies are based on conventional breeding and advanced molecular techniques used by plant physiologists, and are discussed using specific case studies to illustrate their potential. The book emphasizes the effects of environmental factors on specific stages of plant development, and discusses the role of plant growth regulators, nutrients, osmoprotectants and antioxidants in counteracting their adverse affects.

Synthesising updated information on mechansisms of stress tolerance at cell, tissue and whole-plant level, this book provides a useful reference text for post graduate students and researchers involved in the fields of stress physiology and plant physiology in general, with additional readership amongst researchers in horticulture, agronomy, crop science, conservation, environmental management and ecological restoration.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Strategies for Crop Improvement Against Salinity and Drought Stress: An Overview....Pages 1-16
Prediction of Salinity Tolerance Based on Biological and Chemical Properties of Acacia Seeds....Pages 19-23
Antioxidant-Enzyme System as Selection Criteria for Salt Tolerance in Forage Sorghum Genotypes (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench)....Pages 25-36
Genetic Variation in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Seedlings for Nutrient Uptake at Different Salinity and Temperature Regimes....Pages 37-43
The Role of Plant Hormones in Plants Under Salinity Stress....Pages 45-50
Water Loss and Gene Expression of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Plants Under Dehydration....Pages 51-64
Effect of Different Water Table Treatments on Cabbage in Saline Saemangeum Soil....Pages 65-71
How Does Ammonium Nutrition Influence Salt Tolerance in Spartina alterniflora Loisel?....Pages 73-83
Strategies for Crop Improvement in Saline Soils....Pages 85-90
Role of Vetiver Grass and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Improving Crops Against Abiotic Stresses....Pages 91-96
Cell Membrane Stability (CMS): A Simple Technique to Check Salt Stress Alleviation Through Seed Priming with GA3 in Canola....Pages 99-110
Using Resources from the Model Plant Arabidopsis thaliana to Understand Effects of Abiotic Stress....Pages 111-116
Genetic Resources for Some Wheat Abiotic Stress Tolerances....Pages 117-127
Survival at Extreme Locations: Life Strategies of Halophytes....Pages 129-132
Adaptive Mechanisms of Halophytes in Desert Regions....Pages 133-147
Is Sustainable Agriculture with Seawater Irrigation Realistic?....Pages 149-163
Enhanced Tolerance of Transgenic Crops Expressing Both Superoxide Dismutase and Ascorbate Peroxidase in Chloroplasts to Multiple Environmental Stress....Pages 167-177
Adaptation to Iron-Deficiency Requires Remodelling of Plant Metabolism: An Insight in Chloroplast Biochemistry and Functionality....Pages 179-185
Boron Deficiency in Rice in Pakistan: A Serious Constraint to Productivity and Grain Quality....Pages 187-196
Potential Role of Sabkhas in Egypt: An Overview....Pages 197-203
Back Matter....Pages 205-212
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