Short description:

Discusses the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites to develop novel strategies to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Volume 1 focuses on secondary metabolites in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions.

Long description:

Abiotic stresses such as drought, high salt, cold, heat, UV radiation, heavy metal pollution, etc., are increasingly responsible for restricting plant growth and agricultural production and are becoming more alarming due to threats from global climate change. To combat these threats, this new 3-volume set provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that mediate biosynthesis, accumulation, and degradation of plant metabolites to improve crop production and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants.

Volume 1: Secondary Metabolites in Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses exclusively on the diverse secondary metabolites that play a major role in the adaptation of plants to the environment and in overcoming stress conditions as well as their implications for enhancing tolerance mechanisms. The book presents available information on the protective roles rendered by a wide array of antioxidative secondary metabolites and their regulation during diverse environmental stress.

Volume 2: Trace Elements in Environmental Stress Tolerance throws light on the different inorganic trace elements, including metal nanoparticles, that help to deal with environmental stresses. While these elements at high level create considerable phytotoxicity and halt metabolic and enzymatic activity, they also promote growth and development in limited quantity, so that they have significant potential in revamping plant morphology and physiology under stressed conditions. Hence, optimum concentration management of these elements can help to mitigate world hunger and contribute toward sustainable agriculture and food security under challenging environments.

Volume 3: Sustainable Approaches for Enhancing Environmental Stress Tolerance focuses on the agronomic and biochemical approaches as well as biotechnological and high-throughput technologies, including the prospects of genetic engineering, epigenetics and the latest CRISPR/Cas technology, in generating stress-tolerant plants. The volume provides a clear roadmap for the implementation of techniques for improving abiotic stress tolerance in plants for better sustenance.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Pathways for Secondary Metabolite Production 1. Plant Secondary Metabolites and Environmental Stress: An Overview 2. Involvement of Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Shikimic Acid Pathway in Environmental Stress Response 3. Terpenoid Production through Mevalonate and Methylerythritol Phosphate Pathway and Regulation of Environmental Stress Tolerance Part 2: Individual Secondary Metabolites in Tolerance 4. Role of Diverse Classes of Terpenoids in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stresses 5. Terpenoids in Plant Tolerance against Different Environmental Stresses 6. Role of Anthocyanin in Plants to Survive against Environmental Stresses 7. Role of Carotenoids in Tolerance against Different Environmental Stress 8. Involvement of Chalcones and Coumarins in Environmental Stress Tolerance 9. Role of Phenolic Acids and Flavonoids in the Mitigation of Environmental Stress in Plants Part 3: Application and Analysis of Secondary Metabolites 10. Seedling and Seed Priming in Regulating Secondary Metabolite Level for Stress Tolerance 11. Seed Priming and Seedling Pre-Treatment in Regulating Secondary Metabolism for Stress Tolerance 12. Tools and Approaches for Assessing Stress-Responsive Secondary Metabolites to Design Climate-Smart Crops