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Biostimulants for Crops from Seed Germination to Plant Development
A Practical Approach
- 1st Edition - June 23, 2021
- Editors: Shubhpriya Gupta, Johannes Van Staden
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 4 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 9 9 6 - 5
Biostimulants for crops from seed germination to plant development focuses on the effects and roles of natural biostimulants in every aspect of plant growth development to re… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBiostimulants for crops from seed germination to plant development focuses on the effects and roles of natural biostimulants in every aspect of plant growth development to reduce the use of harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Biostimulants are a group of substances of natural origin that offer a potential to reduce the dependency on harmful chemical fertilizers causing environmental degradation. While there is extensive literature on biostimulants, there remains a gap in understanding how natural biostimulants work and their practical application. This book fills that gap, presenting the ways in which biostimulants enhance seed vigor and plant productivity by looking into their mode of action, an area still being researched for deeper understanding. Exploring the roles of seed germination, pollen tube formation, pollen-pistil interaction, flower and fruit setting, to plant pigments, rhizospheric and soil microorganisms, the book also sheds light on the challenges and realistic opportunities for the use of natural biostimulants.
- Approaches biostimulant research with the goal of transforming scientific research into practical application
- Includes real-world examples from laboratory, greenhouse and field experiments
- Presents the biochemical, physiological and molecular mode of action of biostimulants
Agriculture industry professionals working with microbial technologies and plant biostimulants, plant pathologists, biocontrol investigators, agronomists, and environment technologists. Academics and advanced students in the above topics
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Categories of various plant biostimulants – mode of application and shelf-life
- Introduction
- Categories of biostimulants
- Mode of applications of various biostimulants
- Chapter 2. Biostimulants, the cinderella for plant development
- Introduction
- Mode of action on plant growth and development
- Biostimulants tolerant to stresses
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Smoke, seaweed extracts, and vermicompost leachates—classical natural plant biostimulants
- Introduction
- Smoke
- Seaweeds
- Vermicompost leachates
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 4. Integrating biostimulants in agrosystem to promote soil health and plant growth
- Introduction
- Shoot and root development as influenced by biostimulants
- Biostimulants and survival/growth of plantlets
- Biostimulants as an organic soil amendment for improved soil health
- Biostimulant effects on physico-chemical properties of the soil and plant growth
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Influence of plant biostimulant application on seed germination
- Introduction
- Effects of biostimulants on seed germination
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 6. Role of fire and fire cues in seed germination, seedling vigor, and establishment of species from fire-prone vegetation and its potential in African underutilized leafy vegetables and edible weeds: a review
- Introduction
- Seed dormancy, a crucial tool for plant survival
- Fynbos system in South Africa
- Characteristics of fire in breaking seed dormancy
- Heat as a dormancy release and germination cue
- Seeds with germination response to heat and/or fire
- Role of smoke in seed dormancy release and germination stimulation
- Smoke water as a seed germination cue
- Preparation of smoke water
- Smoke water components
- The role of high-summer temperatures in seed germination
- Synergistic effect of summer temperatures/fire, cold stratification/low-winter temperature and smoke water/smoke components on seed dormancy and germination
- Effect of interaction of smoke, smoke water, gases, and hormones on seed germination, seedling growth, and vigor
- Effect of smoke water and its compounds on flowering and fruit production in plants
- Effect of smoke water and fire application in agricultural systems and food security
- Smoke water as a potential tool for weed control and improvement of underutilized leafy vegetables and edible weeds
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7. Enhancing plant pigments using natural biostimulants
- Introduction
- Measurement of the physiological performance of plants
- Effect of types of biostimulant on the enhancement of plant pigments
- Photosynthetic response of plants under abiotic stress
- Influences of chemical composition of various biostimulants on plant pigments
- Quality of plants with enhanced pigments content
- Conclusions
- Funding
- Chapter 8. Insights into the biostimulatory effects of chitosan in propagation of orchid bioresources
- Introduction
- Characteristics and structural organization of chitosan
- Biostimulant effects on plants
- Modulatory role of chitosan in plant growth
- Chitosan in orchid propagation
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Effects of seaweed extracts on the in vitro multiplication of plants
- Introduction
- In vitro multiplication of plants
- Seaweed extracts: an alternative source of phytocomposites for in vitro multiplication of plants
- Conclusions
- Chapter 10. Biostimulants in modern agriculture: fitting round biological effects into square regulatory holes
- The biostimulant landscape
- Biostimulant opportunities and challenges
- Regulations and lobby groups
- Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Biostimulant applications in low-input cultivation systems to enhance nutrition efficiency of crops
- Introduction
- Humic substances
- Seaweed extracts
- Plant growth–promoting bacteria
- Conclusions and future prospects
- Chapter 12. Extracts of seaweeds used as biostimulants on land and sea crops—an efficacious, phyconomic, circular blue economy: with special reference to Ascophyllum (brown) and Kappaphycus (red) seaweeds
- Introduction
- Applications of the red seaweed Kappaphycus as a liquid fertilizer/biostimulant
- Biostimulant impacts on Kappaphycus phyconomy and value-chains
- Brown seaweed extracts as bioeffector/biostimulants in seaweed cultivation
- Mitigating properties
- Carrageenan quality
- Conclusions
- Chapter 13. Perspectives on the global biostimulant market: applications, volumes, and values, 2016 data and projections to 2022
- Introduction
- Global biostimulant market
- Conclusions
- Chapter 14. Potential of seaweed extracts and humate-containing biostimulants in mitigating abiotic stress in plants
- Introduction
- Overview of abiotic stress and phytohormone responses in plants
- Overview on biostimulants
- Humate-based compounds/preparations
- Effect of seaweed extracts in ameliorating abiotic stress
- Effect of humate-based compounds/preparations on abiotic stress
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 15. Biostimulants and the modulation of plant antioxidant systems and properties
- Introduction
- Reactive oxygen or nitrogen species and plant antioxidant systems
- Biostimulant-mediated modulation of plant antioxidant systems
- Conclusions and perspectives
- Chapter 16. Endophytic fungi as biostimulants: an efficient tool for plant growth promotion under biotic and abiotic stress conditions
- Introduction
- Functions of plant endophytes as biostimulants
- Mechanism of interaction between endophytic fungi and their hosts
- Abiotic and biotic stresses
- Fungal endophytes as a biostimulant for phytohormones production
- Auxins
- Cytokinins
- Gibberellins
- Abscisic acid
- Ethylene
- Salicylic acid
- Jasmonic acid
- Antioxidant defense
- Root system architecture
- Osmoregulation and increasing nutrient uptake efficiency
- Plant growth promotion
- Biotic stress
- Prospects and challenges
- Conclusion
- Chapter 17. Application of bacterial biostimulants in promoting growth and disease prevention in crop plants
- Introduction
- Microbial biostimulants in plant growth and development
- Microbial biostimulants in plant disease prevention
- Microbial biostimulants in abiotic stress tolerance
- Seed vectored microbial biostimulants
- Conclusion
- Chapter 18. Disease management using biostimulants
- Introduction
- Biostimulants, their role in plant development and in disease management
- Conclusion
- Chapter 19. Biostimulants: potential benefits of enhancing nutrition efficiency in agronomic and horticultural crops
- Introduction
- Humic substances
- Protein hydrolysates and amino acid formulations
- Seaweed extracts
- Microorganisms
- Silicon
- Food or industrial waste extracts
- Conclusions and prospects
- Chapter 20. Modes of action of biostimulants in plants
- Introduction
- Mimicking hormone signaling and activities
- Modulation of enzyme/protein activities
- Regulation of transcriptional regulatory mechanisms
- Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 489
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 23, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128230480
- eBook ISBN: 9780128229965
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Shubhpriya Gupta
Ph.D. Botany from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India in 2015. Her research field includes plant physiology, biostimulants, plant tissue culture, plant biotechnology and analytical chemistry. She has published 14 research articles in reputed journals. She worked as an assistant professor at Baba Farid College, Punjab, India from September 2015 to October 2017. At present, she is working as Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa. She is a review board editor of South African Journal of Botany and Journal referee for Acta Physiologia Plantarum, and Journal of Plant Growth Regulation.
Affiliations and expertise
Post-Doctoral Researcher Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, University of KwaZulu Natal, South AfricaJV
Johannes Van Staden
Ph.D. in Botany from university of Natal, South Africa in 1970. He is the director of the Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, University of Natal, South Africa. His research field includes plant hormones, biostimulants, seed germination, senescence, stress physiology, post-harvest physiology, biotechnology and plant tissue culture, ethnobotany, secondary products and ethnomedicine. Prof Van Staden has supervised 82 MSc and 100 Ph.D. students and 70 Post-Docs. He is the author/co-author of more than 1400 papers which have been published in ISI rated journals. He has a number of publications that qualify as ‘citation classics’ (over 100 citations). Prof Van Staden is former Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Botany.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal.Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaRead Biostimulants for Crops from Seed Germination to Plant Development on ScienceDirect