Frontiers in Plant–Soil Interaction

Molecular Insights into Plant Adaptation

Tariq Aftab, Khalid Rehman Hakeem

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780323909433
• eBook ISBN: 9780323909440
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

Plants face a wide range of environmental challenges, which are expected to become more intense as a result of global climate change. Plant–soil interactions play an important role in the functioning of ecosystems. Soil properties represent a strong selection pressure for plant diversity and influence the structure of plant communities and biodiversity. The complexity of plant–soil interactions has recently been studied by developing a trait-based approach in which responses and effects of plants on soil environment are quantified and modelled. This fundamental research on plant–soil interaction in ecosystems is essential to transpose knowledge of functional ecology to environmental management.Frontiers in Plant-Soil Interaction: Molecular Insights into Plant Adaptation will address topics that provide advances in understanding plant responses to soil conditions through the integration of genetic, molecular, and plant-level studies of diverse biotic and abiotic stresses under field and laboratory conditions. This book will be beneficial to students and researchers working on stress physiology and stress proteins, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering and other fields of plant-soil interactions. Frontiers in Plant-Soil Interaction will also help scientists explore new horizons in their area of research. - Brings together global leaders working in the area of plant–environment interactions and shares their research findings - Presents current and future scenarios for the management of stressors - Illustrates the central role for plant-soil interactions in applying basic research to address current and future challenges to humans

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• Chapter 1 Plant–soil interactions in a changing world: a climate change perspective
• Chapter 2 Role of carbon cycle in soil productivity and carbon fluxes under changing climate
• Chapter 3 Molecular advances in plant root system architecture response and redesigning for improved performance under unfavorable environments
• Chapter 4 Nanotechnology-based biofortification: a plant–soil interaction modulator/enhancer
• Chapter 5 Transcription factors involved in plant responses to stress adaptation
• Chapter 6 Nitrate assimilation: cross talk between plants and soil
• Chapter 7 Next-generation genetic engineering tools for abiotic stress tolerance in plants
• Chapter 8 Omics approaches for improving abiotic stress tolerance in rice: recent advances and future prospects
• Chapter 9 Interactions of phytohormones with abiotic stress factors under changing climate
• Chapter 10 The role of soil microbes in the plant adaptation to stresses: current scenario and future perspective
• Chapter 11 CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing for improved stress tolerance in plants
• Chapter 12 Photosynthetic and cellular responses in plants under saline conditions
• Chapter 13 Physiological and molecular strategies of plant adaptationin phosphorus-deficient soils
• Chapter 14 Biotic stresses on plants: reactive oxygen species generation and antioxidant mechanism
• Chapter 15 Physiological mechanisms and adaptation strategies of plants under heavy metal micronutrient deficiency/toxicity conditions
• Chapter 16 Halophytes as effective tool for phytodesalination and land reclamation
• Chapter 17 Role of nickel in regulation of nitrogen metabolism in legume–rhizobium symbiosis under critical conditions
• Chapter 18 Beneficial aspects of cobalt uptake in plants exposed to abiotic stresses
• Chapter 19 Iron in the soil–plant–human continuum
• Chapter 20 The molecular mechanism of brassinosteroids in mediating the abiotic stress responses of plants
• Chapter 21 Emerging roles of osmoprotectant glycine betaine against salt-induced oxidative stress in plants: a major outlook of maize (Zea mays L.)
• Chapter 22 Ecodesigning for ecological sustainability
• Index