BookShabir Hussain Wani, editor.
Summary: This edited volume summarizes the recent advancements made in plant science including molecular biology and genome editing, particularly in the development of novel pathways tolerant to climate change-induced stresses such as drought, extreme temperatures, cold, salinity, flooding, etc. These stresses are liable for decrease in yields in many crop plants at global level. Till date conventional plant breeding approaches have resulted in significant improvement of crop plants for producing higher yields during adverse climatic conditions. However, the pace of improvement through conventional plant breeding needs to be accelerated in keeping with the growing demand of food and increasing human populationl, particularly in developing world. This book serves as a comprehensive reference material for researchers, teachers, and students involved in climate change-related abiotic stress tolerance studies in plants.
Contents:
Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; About the Editor; Omics Technologies for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Current Status and Prospects; 1 Introduction; 2 Insights into Omics in Plant Abiotic Stress; 3 Genomics: Elucidating Stress-Responsive Genes; 4 Transcriptomics: A Closer Look at Transcripts; 5 Proteomics: A Key for Understanding Protein Structure, Function, and Regulation; 6 Metabolomics in Plant Abiotic Stress; 7 Lipidomics; 8 Proteogenomics: A Comprehensive Approach for Elucidating Regulatory Mechanisms; 9 miRNAomics: For the Better Understanding of the Small RNA Networks 10 Prime-Omics: A Comprehensive Approach to Priming11 Bioinformatics: Tools for Integrating All Omics Approaches; 12 Conclusion; References; Genome Editing and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; 1 Introduction; 2 Types of Crop Plant Genome Editing Tools; 2.1 Zinc Finger Nuclease; 2.2 Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALEN); 2.3 Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR/Cas9); 3 Uses of CRISPR/Cas9 in Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops; 3.1 Drought; 3.2 Salinity; 3.3 Heavy Metals; 3.4 Cold Stress; 4 Conclusion; References 2 Screening for Various Abiotic Stress Tolerance2.1 Cold Stress; 2.2 Drought Stress; 2.2.1 Salt Stress; 3 Conclusion; References; Micromics: A Novel Approach to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Stress Tolerance; 1 Introduction; 2 Biogenesis of miRNAs; 3 List of Bioinformatics Tools for miRNAs Prediction, Identification and Characterization; 4 Role of miRNAs in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance; 4.1 Drought; 4.2 Cold; 4.3 Salt; 4.4 High Temperature; 5 Role of miRNAs in Plant Biotic Stress Tolerance; 5.1 Viruses; 5.2 Bacteria; 5.3 Fungal; 5.4 Nematodes; 5.5 Insect Pests; 6 Conclusion Metabolomic Profiling of Plants to Understand Reasons for Plant Stress Resilience to Abiotic Stress1 Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS); 2 Liquid Chromatography (LC)-MS; 3 Capillary Electrophoresis (CE)-MS; 4 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy; 5 Water Stress; 6 Temperature Stress; 7 Light Stress; 8 Ion Stress; 9 Oxidative Stress; 10 Combination of Stresses; 11 Toward the Elucidation of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Abiotic Stress Tolerance; References; In Vitro Screening of Crop Plants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance; 1 Introduction