Overview
- International experts shared their latest findings on plant cold stress tolerance
- Improved methodologies and systems to enhance plant growth in cold-stressed environment
- Offers scientific paradigms for other abiotic stress-related studies in agriculture research
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Table of contents(10 chapters)
About this book
Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions. Numerous plant types of tropical or subtropical origin are injured or killed by non-freezing low temperature, and display a range of symptoms of chilling injury such as chlorosis, necrosis, or growth retardation. In contrast, chilling tolerant species thrive well at such temperatures. To thrive under cold stress conditions, plants have evolved complex mechanisms to identify peripheral signals that allow them to counter varying environmental conditions. These mechanisms include stress perception, signal transduction, transcriptional activation of stress-responsive target genes, and synthesis of stress-related proteins and other molecules, which help plants to strive through adverse environmental conditions. Conventional breeding methods have met with limited success in improving the cold tolerance of important crop plants through inter-specific or inter-generic hybridization. A better understanding of physiological, biochemical and molecular responses and tolerance mechanisms, and discovery of novel stress-responsive pathways and genes may contribute to efficient engineering strategies that enhance cold stress tolerance. It is therefore imperative to accelerate the efforts to unravel the biochemical, physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying cold stress tolerance in plants.
Editors and Affiliations
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Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops Khudwani, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
Shabir Hussain Wani
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Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Venura Herath
About the editors
Dr. Venura Herath is a Senior Lecturerat Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from University of Peradeniya. His doctoral studies were carried out at University of Maine, USA on “Transcriptional regulatory networks involved in plant responses to low temperature”. After completion of PhD, he served as a senior lecturer at Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and he is currently serving as the Head of the Department. Dr. Herath teaches courses on functional and stress genomics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His findings on abiotic stress response gene networks are published in both national and international journals. Currently, he is working on development of future ready rice by modulating key transcriptional factors using transgenic and genome editing technologies. He won the Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award in 2011 and the Presidential Awards for Research Publications in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cold Tolerance in Plants
Book Subtitle: Physiological, Molecular and Genetic Perspectives
Editors: Shabir Hussain Wani, Venura Herath
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01415-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01414-8Published: 05 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01415-5Published: 24 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 203
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture, Oxidative Stress