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Amino Acids in Plant Protection
Mechanisms, Metabolism and Coordination
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2025
- Editors: Noreen Zahra, Muhammad Bilal Hafeez, Abdul Wahid, Muhammad Farooq
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 9 3 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 9 4 - 9
highlights the increasingly evident importance of amino acids in plant development and stress defense, addressing the needs of basic and applied plant scientists around the world.… Read more
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Request a sales quotehighlights the increasingly evident importance of amino acids in plant development and stress defense, addressing the needs of basic and applied plant scientists around the world. This comprehensive book presents the latest and novel findings on amino acid research on this important aspect of plant physiology. Higher plants are sessile and therefore cannot escape hostile environmental conditions that are a constant threat throughout their life cycle. Unfavorable growth conditions such as extreme temperatures, drought and flood, and contamination of soils with high salt concentrations are considered the major abiotic environmental stressors that can not only limit plant growth and development, but they also determine the geographic distribution of plant species and directly affect agronomical yield. Plants have evolved different strategies to minimize the harmful effects of abiotic stress conditions and several of them are connected to amino acid metabolism. Amino acids are involved in several physiological processes in plants from constituting proteins to acting as precursors for the synthesis of secondary metabolites and signaling molecules. Most importantly, they also take part in the transport and storage of organic nitrogen within the plant, having active roles in plant development and participating in the plant's response to environmental stresses. Metabolic adaptation is crucial for abiotic stress resistance in plants, and the accumulation of specific amino acids as well as secondary metabolites derived from amino acid metabolism has been identified in increased tolerance to hostile environmental conditions. provides the only comprehensive overview of the general direction of amino acid metabolism and genetic regulation under abiotic stress conditions, presenting a complete map of all currently known enzymatic steps involved in amino acid synthesis and degradation was assembled including the initial steps leading to the synthesis of secondary metabolites.
• Explores amino acids in a range of environmental conditions to enable accurate assessment and response • Presents comprehensive insights into the practical application of amino acids for specific stress scenarios • Provides in-depth details of metabolic and signaling functions of amino acids
Researchers, postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as professionals working in academia and industry in the areas of agronomy, plant molecular biology, plant physiology and biochemistry, horticulture, botany, and agriculture science
- No. of pages: 325
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443267932
- eBook ISBN: 9780443267949
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Noreen Zahra
Noreen Zahra is working as Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, Government College Women University Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan. She completed her Ph.D. in Botany from the Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. She published 30 refereed journal papers, many of which have sought to understand the morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular basis of crop responses to individual and concurrent abiotic stresses and mechanisms imparting tolerance for such stresses. She devised promising strategies for improving crop performance under sub-optimum conditions (salinity, drought, submergence, temperature extremes, metal toxicity) and suggested various novel indicators for augmenting stress tolerance in plants.
Affiliations and expertise
Government College Women UniversityMH
Muhammad Bilal Hafeez
Muhammad Bilal Hafeez is doing Ph.D. from College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, China. He did M.Sc (Hons.) Agronomy from the Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He published over 40 refereed journal papers and 8 book chapters. He does research in Agricultural Plant Science (plant physiology, abiotic stresses, especially salinity, drought and heavy metal stresses). He is currently focusing on combined abiotic stress tolerance in crops perspective of food and nutrition security.
Affiliations and expertise
Northwest A&F UniversityAW
Abdul Wahid
Prof. Dr. Abdul Wahid is working as Professor from the Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan. He published over 200 refereed journal papers. He completed his Ph.D. in Botany from the Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Environmental stresses are major constraints to the productivity of crops throughout the world. It is therefore imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the salinity, high temperature and drought-hit areas. His current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. He has more than twenty years of teaching/research experience in Botany.
Affiliations and expertise
University of AgricultureMF
Muhammad Farooq
Muhammad Farooq is Associate Professor at the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He also holds the positions of Associate Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Dankook University, Korea. He was also Young Affiliate fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2015-2019) and is member of Global Young Academy and Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He received ‘Best Young Research Scholar Award’ from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (2013 and 2014). He was honored with the COMSTECH Award for Excellence in Research (2016) by Organization of Islamic Conference and Gold Medal (2017) by Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He received the Best University Teacher Award (2018) from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and was named as Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science (2018 and 2019). He received the distinguished researcher award (2020) from the Sultan Qaboos University. He has edited and co-edited eight books, and authored and co-authored more than 380 research articles and 49 book chapters. His citations, on google scholar, exceed 22,000 with h-index of 72.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman