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- Editors:
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Girdhar K. Pandey
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Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Dhaula Kuan, India
- First book to discuss plant signaling from a genetic perspective
- Diversified group of international contributors
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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Functional Genomics Approaches in Signal Transduction
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- Praveen Soni, Kamlesh Kant Nutan, Neelam Soda, Ramsong C. Nongpiur, Suchismita Roy, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek et al.
Pages 3-40
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- Swati Singh, Nisha Khatri, Arpana Katiyar, Yashwanti Mudgil
Pages 41-73
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Components of Signal Transduction
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- Peter D. Bickerton, Jon K. Pittman
Pages 95-117
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- Joo Hyuk Cho, Kyung-Nam Kim
Pages 175-190
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- Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Penna Suprasanna
Pages 191-205
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- Hussain Ara, Alok Krishna Sinha
Pages 207-229
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- Amita Pandey, Manisha Sharma, Girdhar K. Pandey
Pages 231-270
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- Monika Dalal, Viswanathan Chinnusamy
Pages 271-298
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- Eshan Sharma, Raghvendra Sharma, Pratikshya Borah, Mukesh Jain, Jitendra P. Khurana
Pages 299-328
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- Dhirendra Kumar, Danda Chapagai, Phillip Dean, Mackenzie Davenport
Pages 329-346
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- Charanpreet Kaur, Shweta Sharma, Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, Sudhir Kumar Sopory
Pages 347-366
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Back Matter
Pages 397-404
About this book
​Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal transduction pathways for abiotic stresses, light, several phytohormones and pathogenesis have been elucidated. A significant portion of plant genomes (most studies are Arabidopsis and rice genome) encodes for proteins involves in signaling such as receptor, sensors, kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors and transporters/channels. Despite decades of physiological and molecular effort, knowledge pertaining to how plants sense and transduce low and high temperature, low-water availability (drought), water-submergence and salinity signals is still a major question before plant biologists. One major constraint hampering our understanding of these signal transduction processes in plants has been the lack or slow pace of application of molecular genomic and genetics knowledge in the form of gene function. In the post-genomic era, one of the major challenges is investigation and understanding of multiple genes and gene families regulating a particular physiological and developmental aspect of plant life cycle. One of the important physiological processes is regulation of stress response, which leads to adaptation or adjustment in response to adverse stimuli. With the holistic understanding of the signaling pathways involving not only one gene family but multiple genes or gene families, plant biologists can lay a foundation for designing and generating future crops that can withstand the higher degree of environmental stresses (especially abiotic stresses, which are the major cause of crop loss throughout the world) without losing crop yield and productivity.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Dhaula Kuan, India
Girdhar K. Pandey
About the editor
Dr. Girdhar Pandey serves as Associate Professor for the Department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Delhi South Campus. Dr. Pandey has published and contributed to widely praised books on plant genetics and genomics, including GTPases: Versatile Regulators of Signal Transduction in Plants (Springer, 2015), Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants: Physiological, Molecular and Genomic Foundation (Springer, 2010), and Biotechnology in Sustainable Biodiversity and Food Security (Science Publishers, Inc., 2003).
