Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Plants by Chakraborty, Koushik; Hasanuzzaman, Md.; Bhaduri, Debarati;

Long description:

Driven by the realities of global climate change, compound stress events-such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and flooding-now frequently affect crops within a single season, posing significant risks to global food security and agricultural sustainability. Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Plants: Mechanisms and Management Strategies examines how plants coordinate distinct physiological, biochemical, and molecular pathways to adapt under complex stress conditions, contrasting these mechanisms with those triggered by individual stress factors.

Chapters cover key processes including redox regulation, hormonal signaling, transcriptional control, ion transport, and metabolic adjustments. The volume also highlights advances in breeding and biotechnology-from marker-assisted selection and genome editing to nanotechnology and multi-omics approaches-alongside practical strategies for improved stress management, such as optimized nutrient use, microbial interventions, and climate-adaptive agronomy.

Comprehensive in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this reference book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, plant scientists, and agricultural professionals by offering the strategic insight needed to anticipate, rather than react to, the evolving challenges of plant-environment interactions.

• Explores adaptive changes in plant structure and anatomy under combined stress conditions, enabling readers to link morphological traits with functional outcomes in real-world crop systems
• Demonstrates how nutrient dynamics, soil amendments, and beneficial elements contribute to stress alleviation, elucidating actionable pathways for improving plant performance under multiple stress conditions
• Highlights the integration of Internet of Things-enabled sensor networks for early detection and mitigation of multiple abiotic stresses in plants

Table of Contents:

SECTION A. Multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants: A global climate change perspective
1. Incidence of multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants and their implications for global food security
2. Plant genetic resources and their potential use to combat multiple abiotic stresses

SECTION B. Physiological and molecular bases of multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3. Morphological, biochemical, and anatomical adaptations of plants to multiple abiotic stresses
4. Photosynthetic and stomatal regulation to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
5. Plant signaling and signal transduction cascades in response to multiple abiotic stresses
6. Regulatory networks and redox homeostasis in plant responses to multiple abiotic stresses
7. Modulation of ion transport and uptake dynamics in plants under multiple abiotic stresses
8. Transcription factors and their role in multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
9. Role of phytohormones and plant growth regulators in multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
10. Secondary metabolites, metallothioneins, and phytochelatins in combating multiple abiotic stresses in plants

SECTION C. Approaches for improving multiple stress tolerance in plants
11. Conventional and marker-assisted breeding approaches to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
12. Genomic breeding empowered by next-generation sequencing and generative artificial intelligence for multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
13. Role of phenomics and precision phenotyping in breeding strategies to develop multiple abiotic stress-tolerant crops
14. Use of nanobiotechnology to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
15. Transgenic and genome editing-based approaches for improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
16. Multiomics-based approaches for developing multiple abiotic stress-tolerant crops

SECTION D. Management strategies to overcome multiple abiotic stresses in plants
17. Management of multiple abiotic stresses through improved agronomic practices
18. Adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate multiple abiotic stresses in crops
19. Alleviation of multiple abiotic stresses by improving macro- and micronutrient management
20. Role of beneficial elements in mediating tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
21. Role of soil amendments in improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
22. Importance of beneficial microbes in improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance of plants: special reference to plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
23. Detection and monitoring of abiotic stresses in crops: recent technological applications