Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Plants
Mechanisms and Management Strategies
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Koushik Chakraborty, Md. Hasanuzzaman, Debarati Bhaduri, Somnath Roy, Honghong Wu
- Language: English
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 si… Read more
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 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.
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
- Highlights the role of plant-associated microbes, including PGPR and AMF, in mitigating overlapping stress factors, providing a biological foundation for developing microbe-based support strategies
Scientists, researchers, and academics in plant science. Scientists, researchers, and academics in agriculture and crop sciences.
SECTION A. Multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants: A global climate change perspective
1. Incidence of multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants and its implication for global food security
2. Mechanisms and strategies to deal with compound stress in plants: an overview
SECTION B. Physiological and molecular basis of multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3. Morphological and anatomical adaptations in plants under multiple abiotic stresses
4. Photosynthetic and stomatal regulation to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
5. Plant signaling and signal transduction cascade under multiple abiotic stresses in plants
6. Role of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense in tolerating multiple abiotic stresses in plants
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. Use of Plant Genetic Resources and marker-assisted breeding approaches to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
12. Genomics-assisted approaches for improving 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. Multi-omics-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 micro-nutrient management
20. Role of beneficial elements to mediate the 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 PGPR and AMF
23. Detection and monitoring of abiotic stresses in crops: Latest on technological applications
1. Incidence of multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants and its implication for global food security
2. Mechanisms and strategies to deal with compound stress in plants: an overview
SECTION B. Physiological and molecular basis of multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3. Morphological and anatomical adaptations in plants under multiple abiotic stresses
4. Photosynthetic and stomatal regulation to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
5. Plant signaling and signal transduction cascade under multiple abiotic stresses in plants
6. Role of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense in tolerating multiple abiotic stresses in plants
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. Use of Plant Genetic Resources and marker-assisted breeding approaches to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
12. Genomics-assisted approaches for improving 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. Multi-omics-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 micro-nutrient management
20. Role of beneficial elements to mediate the 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 PGPR and AMF
23. Detection and monitoring of abiotic stresses in crops: Latest on technological applications
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Koushik Chakraborty
Dr. Koushik Chakraborty is a senior scientist at the Plant Physiology, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, in India. His areas of specialization is are in abiotic stress physiology (salinity, submergence & waterlogging), molecular plant physiology (salinity tolerance mechanism, oxidative stress tolerance), membrane ion transport, and electro-physiology. He has served as a reviewer for international scientific journals, and has published over 56 scientific papers, authored/edited five books, and 27 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, IndiaMH
Md. Hasanuzzaman
Professor in the Department of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. My research areas include Plant Stress Physiology and Agronomy. I am interested in the physiological, morphological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms of different biotic (virus, fungus) and abiotic stress tolerance (salinity, drought, waterlogged, heavy metals) on crops.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, BangladeshDB
Debarati Bhaduri
Debarati Bhaduri is a senior scientist at ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, in India. A soil scientist, she has made significant contributions in quantifying soil quality by integrating soil physical-chemical-biological indicators under long-term rice-wheat system of Indo-Gangetic plain. She has proposed an alternate management of crop residues to subside burning and mitigate climate change. Her other research focuses on alteration in agronomic management for submergence tolerance in rice, optimization of agrochemicals’ doses for sustaining soil ecological health, refinement of management options for saline coastal soil with nutrient balances in soil and plants, and intervention of new-generation management to improve NUE and WUE.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Division of Crop Production, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, IndiaSR
Somnath Roy
Somnath Roy is a senior scientist at the Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Hazaribag, in India. His research focuses on rice breeding, plant genetic resource management, population genetics, and natural genetic variation for abiotic stress tolerance. He has published over 56 papers in international scientific journals, authored/edited one book, and 10 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Hazaribag, IndiaHW
Honghong Wu
Honghong Wu is a professor at Huazhong Agricultural University, China. He specializes in nano-enabled agriculture, nanozymes, nanosensors, nano-systems to deliver biomolecules, plant salt tolerance mechanisms, photosynthesis, ion transport across membrane, ROS homeostasis. Dr. Wu has served as editor and reviewer for internationally renowned journals, and has published over 50 articles.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China