Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Stress Tolerance of Plants

1. Front Matter

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2. Arbuscular Mycorrhizas: An Overview

   • Sajid Mahmood Nadeem, Muhammad Yahya Khan, Muhammad Rashid Waqas, Rana Binyamin, Sohail Akhtar, Zahir Ahmad Zahir

   Pages 1-24

3. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Tolerance of Drought Stress in Plants

   • Qiang-Sheng Wu, Ying-Ning Zou

   Pages 25-41

4. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Tolerance of Waterlogging Stress in Plants

   • Faisal Danu Tuheteru, Qiang-Sheng Wu

   Pages 43-66

5. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Tolerance of Salt Stress in Plants

   • Bhawna Saxena, Kamlesh Shukla, Bhoopander Giri

   Pages 67-97

6. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Adaption of P Stress in Plants

   • Bo Shu, Qiang-Sheng Wu

   Pages 99-130

7. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Tolerance of Fe Stress in Plants

   • Yong-Ming Huang, Qiang-Sheng Wu

   Pages 131-145

8. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants

   • Mohammad Miransari

   Pages 147-161

9. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Tolerance of Temperature Stress in Plants

   • Xiancan Zhu, Fengbin Song, Fulai Liu

   Pages 163-194

10. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Potential Bioprotectants Against Aerial Phytopathogens and Pests

    • M. Comby, G. Mustafa, M. Magnin-Robert, B. Randoux, J. Fontaine, Ph. Reignault et al.

    Pages 195-223

11. Arbuscular Mycorrhiza and Reactive Oxygen Species

    • Rupam Kapoor, Neeraja Singh

    Pages 225-243

12. Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Ecosystem Restoration

    • Fayuan Wang

    Pages 245-292

13. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Growth on Serpentine Soils

    • Husna, Faisal Danu Tuheteru, Asrianti Arif

    Pages 293-303

14. Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi into Agriculture

    • Ibrahim Ortaş, Mazhar Rafique, İbrahim A. M. Ahmed

    Pages 305-327

This book reviews the potential mechanisms in arbuscular mycorrhizas (AMs), in the hope that this can help arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to be more used efficiently as a biostimulant to enhance stress tolerance in the host plants. AMF, as well as plants, are often exposed to all or many of the abiotic and biotic stresses, including extreme temperatures, pH, drought, water-logging, toxic metals and soil pathogens. Studies have indicated a quick response to these stresses involving several mechanisms, such as root morphological modification, reactive oxygen species change, osmotic adjustment, direct absorption of water by extraradical hyphae, up-regulated expression of relevant stressed genes, glomalin-related soil protein release, etc. The underlying complex, multi-dimensional strategy is involved in morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes. The AMF responses are often associated with homeostatic regulation of the internal and externalenvironment, and are therefore critical for plant health, survival and restoration in native ecosystems and good soil structure.

• Arbuscular mycorrhiza
• Drought stress
• Stress tolerance
• Nutrient stress
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

• College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China

  Qiang-Sheng Wu

Qiang-Sheng Wu is a professor at the College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University and an administrative direction at the Institute of Root Biology, Yangtze University. He also serves as the invited professor in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove.

His research interest is primarily in the signalling communication by common mycorrhizal network, the functioning and evaluation of glomalin-related soil protein, the physiol-molecular mechanisms about mycorrhiza-enhanced tolerance of drought stress and salt stress, and the relationship between mycorrhizas and root morphology or root hairs in plants, especially citrus plants.

He has published 70 papers as the first author or corresponding author indexed by SCI data and completed work on the book titled “Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Research and Application of Horticultural Plants” by Science Press. He serves as the invited editors to review manuscripts from ~20 popular journals. He has also been awarded the Fourth SCOPUS Young Research Award.

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