Environmentally Safe Strategies for Plant Protection Against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2025
- Editor: Parissa Taheri
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 1 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 1 9 - 2
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Request a sales quoteEnvironmentally Safe Strategies for Plant Protection Against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses presents environmentally friendly and safe methods for plant protection against not only biotic stresses caused by various pathogens and pests, but also against abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, UV radiations, flood, unfavorable temperature, and pH, etc. The book aims to present approaches for both abiotic and biotic stresses, providing a valuable, integrated view to inspire new research as well as to implement and develop new practices.
As global demand for organic food and feed products increases, it is necessary to focus on research areas related to discovery, application and demonstrating the modes of action of natural compounds obtained from various plants or mushrooms, as well as beneficial microbes and their metabolites involved in plant protection against biotic and abiotic stresses. These natural compounds, biocontrol agents and their volatile or non-volatile metabolites, which might have direct antagonism against phytopathogens and pests or indirect effect via induction of plant defense, could be formulated and used with high durability to control various environmental stresses in an eco-friendly manner.
- Highlights how beneficial microbes may be applied as plant protectants
- Explains the complex network of defense signaling that can be activated via application of natural plant protectants
- Includes insights on essential oils, plant extracts, and nanoparticles
Researchers and academics in Agricultural, Environmental and Biological Sciences, together with agricultural crops producers, Advanced level students in Agricultural, Environmental and Biological Sciences
1. Plant-Beneficial microorganisms interaction: microbial communities in the rhizosphere, phyllosphere, endosphere and their importance in agriculture
2. Beneficial microbes as biocontrol agents of plant diseases via microbial antagonism
3. Microbiome interactions affect plant physiology and immunity to environmental stresses
4. Biological and natural compounds as plant defence activators against biotic and abiotic stresses
5. Plant innate immunity, phytohormones and defense signaling
6. The role of biological or chemical resistance inducers in activating plant immunity against abiotic stresses
7. The role of nanoparticles and antimicrobial peptides with natural origin in plant protection
8. Biotechnological approaches for plant protection and growth promotion
9. Edible and medicinal mushrooms as potential sources of antimicrobial metabolites for production of biofungicides
10. Plant extracts and essential oils: application in disease and pest management strategies and mechanisms of action
11. Concluding remarks and future prospects
2. Beneficial microbes as biocontrol agents of plant diseases via microbial antagonism
3. Microbiome interactions affect plant physiology and immunity to environmental stresses
4. Biological and natural compounds as plant defence activators against biotic and abiotic stresses
5. Plant innate immunity, phytohormones and defense signaling
6. The role of biological or chemical resistance inducers in activating plant immunity against abiotic stresses
7. The role of nanoparticles and antimicrobial peptides with natural origin in plant protection
8. Biotechnological approaches for plant protection and growth promotion
9. Edible and medicinal mushrooms as potential sources of antimicrobial metabolites for production of biofungicides
10. Plant extracts and essential oils: application in disease and pest management strategies and mechanisms of action
11. Concluding remarks and future prospects
- No. of pages: 450
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443238185
- eBook ISBN: 9780443238192
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Parissa Taheri
Prof. Parissa Taheri is a Plant Pathologist, Mycologist, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. Her research focuses on plant pathology; fungal taxonomy and virulence factors, systematics and population genetics of phytopathogenic fungi; molecular plant-microbe interactions; plant defense signaling pathways; cytomolecular and biochemical aspects of plant resistance; redox biology and signaling in plant defense to biotic and abiotic stresses, identification and application of biocontrol agents or bioactive natural products with antifungal effects; and mechanisms of biological control and plant growth promotion via beneficial fungi. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal “Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology”, and Managing Guest Editor of the special issue “Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture”. She is editor of other international journals, such as Frontiers in Plant Science and Rhizosphere. She is Managing Guest Editor of the special issue entitled “Natural Plant Protectants against Pathogens and Pests”, published in a new Elsevier journal “Journal of Natural Pesticide Research”.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran