Study of Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

Description

Abiotic stress becomes a paramount warning that hurdles the sustainable growth in agriculture for fulfilling the growing food demand worldwide. A significant decrease in the production of major food crops including wheat, rice, and maize is predicted in the near future due to the combined effect of abiotic stresses and climate change that will hamper global security. The natural environment for plants is composed of a complex set of abiotic stresses and biotic stresses. Plant responses to these stresses are equally complex. Systems biology approaches facilitate a multi-targeted approach by allowing one to identify regulatory hubs in complex networks. Systems biology takes the molecular parts of an organism and attempts to fit them into functional networks or models designed to describe and predict the dynamic activities of that organism in different environments. The present reference “Study of Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress” contains introduction, discussion of the state of art and important future tasks of the particular fields. The book describes physiological and molecular responses, role of signaling molecules and phenolics in aboitic stress.