Ozone Pollution and Plant Health: Understanding the Impacts and Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture
- 1st Edition, Volume 108 - June 1, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Felix Leung
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 3 5 0 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 3 5 1 - 0
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Botanical Research Volume 108: Ozone Pollution and Plant Health: Understanding the Impacts and Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture provides a comprehensive overview of the harmful effects of tropospheric ozone (O3) pollution on crop productivity, with a focus on how it is measured and modeled under climate change scenarios. The book discusses the sources of O3 pollution, including anthropogenic precursor gases, and how O3 exposure can impair photosynthesis, reduce gas exchange, induce early leaf senescence, and hamper growth in natural vegetation and crops. The book highlights how O3 interacts with plant physiology and metabolism, including through the activation of signal transduction pathways, changes in phytohormone signaling, and modulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and signaling. The book also explores the experimental and modeling methods used to assess the effects of O3 on crops, with a focus on studies conducted in Asia. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the implications of ozone pollution for ensuring food security and protecting human and environmental health and suggests strategies such as using ozone-resistant cultivars of plants and crops. Additionally, the book discusses the broader context of air pollution and its impact on crop productivity, including the effects of other air pollutants on plants and crops and the need for mitigation strategies and policies to address agricultural losses. This book is essential reading for early-career researchers, sustainable agriculture practitioners, and policymakers interested in understanding the complex interactions between ozone pollution and plant productivity and finding solutions to mitigate the detrimental effects of ozone pollution on crops in a changing climate.
- Discusses the impact of O3 pollution on plant productivity and the methods for measuring and modeling this under climate change scenarios
- Reviews recent findings about the target sites for O3 in plants, O3-induced stomatal regulation by phytohormone signaling, and plants' responses related to phytohormone biosynthesis, ROS generation, and signaling in exposure to O3
- Provides an overview of ozone air quality, ozone effects on plant and crop, and experimental and modeling methods used to assess the effects. It focuses on the results of the experimental and modeling studies of the ozone effects on agricultural crops in Asia
- Covers the effects of common air pollutants on crops and their pathways of exposure to plants. It also discusses the disturbance in the biochemistry of plants and their metabolisms due to air pollution, and some laws implemented for air pollution control in Pakistan
Early career researchers who are interested in looking into ozone’s impact on agriculture
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Advances in BOTANICAL RESEARCH
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Introduction of modelling the impact of ground-level ozone on crops at a local and global scale
- Abstract
- 1 What is tropospheric ozone
- 2 Spatial and temporal patterns of tropospheric ozone
- 3 Formation and destruction of ozone
- 4 Trends of tropospheric ozone
- 5 Impact of ozone
- 6 Key agricultural regions with high regional ozone level
- 7 Existing crop models
- 8 FACE experiments
- 9 Knowledge gaps
- References
- Chapter Two: Cross-talk between ROS and phytohormones signaling determines crop sensitivity against ozone
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 ROS generation at the target sites of O3 in plants
- 3 Phytohormones signaling in response to O3 stress
- 4 Crop responses to O3 induced-ROS and phytohormones
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Three: Effects of ozone on plant and crop yield: Case studies with rice and peanut
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction: Ozone in the atmosphere
- 2 Ozone effects: Mechanisms and assessment methods
- 3 Case study with rice and peanut cultivars in Southeast Asia
- 4 Summary
- References
- Chapter Four: Crop quality and quantity as influenced by important air pollutants in Pakistan
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Major air pollutants
- 3 Plants and atmospheric interaction
- 4 Plants as bioindicators of air pollution
- 5 Air pollutants and plant biochemistry
- 6 Major crops of Pakistan and their threats related to the air pollutants
- 7 Possible mitigations
- 8 Laws and regulations on air pollution in Pakistan
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter Five: Efficacy of nanoparticles for ameliorating detrimental effects of ozone and salinity
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Plants and environmental stresses
- 3 Application of nanotechnology for crops improvement
- 4 Plants interface with tropospheric ozone
- 5 Application of nanotechnology to cope with ozone
- 6 Damage to the crops due to salinity
- 7 Nanotechnology techniques to mitigate salinity
- 8 Nanotechnology in-combined with biotechnology techniques for crop improvement
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 108
- Published: June 1, 2023
- No. of pages (Hardback): 174
- No. of pages (eBook): 174
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443133503
- eBook ISBN: 9780443133510
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Felix Leung
Felix Leung is a professional researcher with over ten years of research experience specializing in climate change, agriculture, ecology, plant science, pollution measurement, ecosystem modelling, marine ecology, and environmental management. He often engage with academic, industry, coporations, public and governmental organisations. Author of high-impact science journals and popular science articles. Expert in bioindicator experiment, pioneer in “Ozone Garden” establishment in Hong Kong. Felix is currently working as a climate change researcher for a global non-profit organization.
Affiliations and expertise
The Chinese University of Hong KongRead Ozone Pollution and Plant Health: Understanding the Impacts and Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture on ScienceDirect