Jenks / Wood Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8138-0906-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Abiotic stresses caused by drought, salinity, toxic metals, temperature extremes, and nutrient poor soils are among the major constraints to plant growth and crop production worldwide. While crop breeding strategies to improve yields have progressed, a better understanding of the genetic and biological mechanisms underpinning stress adaptation is needed. Genes For Plant Abiotic Stress presents the latest research on recently examined genes and alleles and guides discussion of the genetic and physiological determinants that will be important for crop improvement in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenks, Matthew A.

Wood, Andrew J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1. Genetic Determinants of Plant Adaptation Under WaterStress.
Chapter 1: Genetic determinants of stomatal function (Song Liand Sarah M. Assmann).
Chapter 2: Pathways and genetic determinants for cell wall-basedosmotic stress tolerance in the Arabidopsis thaliana rootsystem (Hisashi Koiwa).
Chapter 3: Transcription and signaling factors in the droughtresponse regulatory network (Matthew Geisler).
Section 2. Genes for Crop Adaptation to Poor Soil.
Chapter 4: Genetic determinants of salinity tolerance in cropplants (Darren Plett, Bettina Berger and Mark Tester).
Chapter 5: Unraveling the mechanisms underlying aluminumdependent root growth inhibition (Paul B. Larsen).
Chapter 6: Genetic Determinants of Phosphate Use Efficiency inCrops (Fulgencio Alatorre-Cobos, Damar López-Arredondo andLuis Herrera-Estrella).
Chapter 7: Genes for Use in Improving Nitrate Use Efficiency inCrops (David A. Lightfoot).
Section 3. Genes for Plant Tolerance to TemperatureExtremes.
Chapter 8: Genes and Gene Regulation for Low TemperatureTolerance (Mantas Survila, Pekka Heino and E. TapioPalva).
Chapter 9: Genetic Approaches toward Improving Heat Tolerance inPlants (Mamatha Hanumappa and Henry T. Nguyen).
Section 4. Integrating Plant Abiotic StressResponses.
Chapter 10: Genetic networks underlying plant abiotic stressresponses (Arjun Krishnan, Madana M.R. Ambavaram, Amal Harb,Utlwang Batlang, Peter E. Wittich, and Andy Pereira).
Chapter 11: Discovering genes for abiotic stress tolerance incrop plants (Michael Popelka, Mitchell Tuinstra and Clifford F.Weil).

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew A. Jenks is Professor of Horticulture and LandscapeArchitecture at the Center for Plant Environmental StressPhysiology at Purdue University.
Andrew J. Wood is Professor of Stress Physiology andMolecular Biology in the Department of Plant Biology at SouthernIllinois University.