Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-33457-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress provides the latest information on the potential for sustainable, enhanced resilience of agricultural crops to adverse conditions. This volume in the Biostimulant and Protective Biochemical Agents series focuses on high impact challenges and opportunities. Biostimulants are a promising and effective approach for achieving sustainable agriculture, often regarded as a renewable source of plant nutrients, improve crop production and soil health. During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the potential use of various biostimulants such as plant growth-promoting fungi, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, seaweed extracts, and organic amendments, etc. to increase nutrient use efficiency, and/or tolerance to abiotic environmental stress in plants. Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress includes coverage of bacteria, algae, PGR, PGPB, biochar and other core approaches. It highlights how specific biostimulants may protect or enhance agricultural plant health and is the first comprehensive reference resource to focus exclusively on the role of biostimulants in protecting agricultural crop yield against these major environmental challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naeem, M.

Gill, Sarvajeet Singh

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An overview of the use and importance of biostimulants in agriculture
2. Biostimulants in mitigation of drought stress responses in crop plants
3. Biostimulants in the alleviation of cold stress responses in crop plants
4. Application of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) in salt stress tolerance in crop plants
5. Role of biochar in drought stress tolerance in agricultural crop
6. Role of Biostimulants in crop resilience and resistance
7. Role of biochar in mitigating salt stress in plants
8. Nano-formulations to boost growth and salinity tolerance
9. Effect of essential oil-based nanoparticles on plant defense systems
10. Mitigation of heat and cold stress in agricultural crops
11. Significance of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) in drought stress tolerance in plants
12. Biostimulants homeostasis in plants
13. Role of natural biostimulants (humic acids, seaweed extracts, beneficial bacteria and fungi) in leguminous crops
14. Regulation of physiological and molecular mechanism in plants under salt and drought stress: Significance of biostimulants
15. Exopolysaccharides producing bacteria: Their use in arid agriculture
16. Polyamines: Used as biostimulators in commercial crops for mitigating abiotic stress
17. Mitigation of salt stress in annual and perennial crops through divers PGRs
18. Drought stress tolerance in cereal crops: Role of biostimulants in crop resilience and resistance
19. Halophilic Bacteria: Stimulate plant growth and improves salt affected soil
20. Mitigation of drought stress in plants using beneficial bacteria
21. Algal extracts act as biostimulant of growth and quality to salt stressed vegetables
22. Seaweed extracts used as a potential biostimulant in crop improvement
23. Arbuscularmycorrhizal fungi tolerance against environmental stress
24. Role of melatonin in drought stress mitigation
25. Plant based Biostimulants for abiotic stress management: An emerging approach in sustainable agriculture
26. Conclusion and future perspective of biostimulants mediated mitigation of salt, drought and heat stress in plants

Über Autor(innen)

Naeem, M.
M. Naeem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. His research focuses on escalating the production of medicinal plants and their active principles using potent PGRs under normal and stressful environmental conditions. His research also focuses on abiotic stress tolerance in medicinal plants. Dr. Naeem has published over 100 research papers in reputable international journals. He has also authored 12 books and co-authored several book chapters published by international publishers. Based on his research contributions, Dr. Naeem has received multiple awards and recognitions.

Gill, Sarvajeet Singh
Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill is an Assistant Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. His research focus includes Agricultural Plant Biotechnology; Biotic & Abiotic stress biology, plant microbe interaction and in-silico understanding of plant genomes.
In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities he has served as Associate Editor for the Brazilian Journal of Botany, and as Guest Editor of Plant Genes. He was Guest Editor of BioMed Research International's Special Issue (Plant Stress & Biotechnology); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Environmental Toxicology (Topic Title: Phytotoxicity of high and low levels of plant-beneficial heavy metal ions); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Crop Science and Horticulture (Topic Title: The Brassicaceae - agri-horticultural and environmental perspectives); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Plant Physiology (Topic Title: Recent insights into the double role of hydrogen peroxide in plants); and Functional Genomics Approaches to Decipher Plant Resilience to Environmental Stresses (International Journal of Plant Genomics).