Books in Plant development

Flavonoids for Plant Development and Stress Tolerance

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Praveen Guleria + 2 more
English

Presents the latest information on the flavonoid induced genetic and molecular networks that regulate plant and microbe interactions. Covering recent studies, innovations and future perspectives of flavonoid metabolism and their role in regulating plant responses to environmental changes, this book provides insights for current application as well as for future research. Flavonoids are important secondary metabolites synthesized in plants. They are antioxidant rich and play significant roles in scavenging oxidative stress markers in plants. While flavonoids have been extensively studied in model plants, their exploration from other plant species is limited. In order to understand the complete mechanism of various plant growth phases, it is important to reveal the flavonoids and their types presents a detailed compilation of the diverse flavonoids, their role in food security and underlying molecular and biochemical mechanistic parameters. It includes a detailed description of flavonoids biosynthesis, their diversity, and role in regulation of plant responses to global climate change exposure. Further, this book brings together the concept of flavonoid engineering and its status and scope to support agricultural sustainability. With emphasis on the various molecular and biochemical mechanisms responsible for flavonoids mediated plant responses to resist the alteration induced by changing environmental conditions, the book helps readers understand both the basics and the most recent advancements in flavonoids engineering and thus the survival, productivity, and sustainability of plants.

Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Plants

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Koushik Chakraborty + 4 more
English

Multiple Abiotic Stresses: Mechanisms and Management Strategies is the only single-volume reference providing insights into the occurrence of multiple abiotic stresses faced by plants, their physiology and adaptation mechanisms. The responses and recovery processes by plants under multiple abiotic stresses are different than when facing an individual stress, or multiple stresses faced separately. Exploring these mechanistic differences and management practices is key to advancing understanding and improvement of plant health and crop production.Combined or multiple abiotic stresses are an emerging outcome of global climate change, resulting in significant impact on crop plants around the world. Drought, temperature extremes, salinity, and submergence/water stagnation are some of the major stresses that may occur in a sequence in a single cropping season and sometimes simultaneously as well.This book provides a comprehensive resource for researchers, educators, students, and practitioners interested in the intricate interplay between multiple abiotic stresses and plant biology, as well as strategies for enhancing stress resilience and sustainability in agriculture.

Cadmium Contamination in Soils and Plants

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Fang-Jie Zhao + 2 more
English

Cadmium Contamination in Soils and Plants: Mechanisms and Mitigation focuses on the processes and mechanisms of transformation and transport of cadmium (Cd) in soil-plant systems, covering aspects from inputs and outputs of Cd to/from soil-plant systems, biogeochemical transformation of Cd in soil, uptake and transport of Cd in plants, toxicity and detoxification of Cd in microorganisms and plants, dietary intake of Cd and impact on human health, risk assessment and bioremediation technologies to mitigate Cd contamination. Contamination of soil with Cd, a highly toxic heavy metal, is a global problem due to both geogenic reasons and anthropogenic activities. Cd is readily taken up by plants, causing toxicities to plants and posing a significant risk to human health via dietary exposure. There has been much scientific progress in understanding various aspects of the topic, especially the mechanisms and mitigation technologies. This book to synthesizes and presents a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-art knowledge of Cd in soil-plant systems. Cadmium Contamination in Soils and Plants serves as a key authoritative resource for researchers, graduate students, environmental protection professionals and policy makers who are interested in the issues of soil contamination, agricultural sustainability, food safety and public health, and environmental protection and remediation.

Plant Receptors in Cellular Signaling

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Aryadeep Roychoudhury
English
eBook
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Plant Receptors in Cellular Signaling: Key Regulators during Development and Stress Adaptation delves deep into the structural and functional aspects of diverse plant receptors, emphasizing their crucial roles in signaling pathways. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on receptor-mediated phytohormone signaling and identifies various classes of receptors, their complexes, and their interaction with hormones and growth regulators. It also explores the regulation of signaling components and gene expression, showcasing the intricate relationship between membrane-bound receptors and cytoplasmic receptor-like kinases.The book highlights the mechanistic operation of receptors in relation to major phytohormones, growth regulators, and metabolites. It explains how receptors detect signals from altered developmental processes, tissue damage, and pathogens, initiating sophisticated cell signaling mechanisms. This work is invaluable to academics and researchers focused on hormone signaling, stress physiology, gene expression analysis, and the broader field of plant cellular signaling mechanisms.

Role of Antioxidants in Abiotic Stress Management

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Zaid Ulhassan + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Role of Antioxidants in Abiotic Stress Management covers the antioxidant defense system in plants, providing key insights on how to generate tolerant varieties that can adapt to harsh environmental conditions without adverse impacts on crop productivity. The book covers a broad range of antioxidant responses, describing how global climate changes and the overexploitation of natural or anthropogenic resources creates abiotic stressors. The potential impacts of factors such as heavy metals/metalloids, drought/water deficit, salinity, extreme temperatures, anoxia, and high light intensity are covered, along with discussions on how to improve crop growth and development at different stages.Written by a team of international experts, this book provides an important reference on morphological, physiological, biochemical, metabolic, anatomical and molecular responses of plants under stress factors.

Amino Acids in Plant Protection

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Muhammad Bilal Hafeez + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Amino Acids in Plant Protection: Mechanisms, Metabolism and Coordination 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. It 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, including the initial steps leading to the synthesis of secondary metabolites.Higher plants are sessile and therefore cannot escape hostile environmental conditions that are a constant threat throughout their lifecycle. Unfavorable growth conditions such as extreme temperatures, drought, 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 also determine the geographic distribution of plant species and directly affect agronomical yield.

Role of Antioxidants in Mitigating Plant Stress

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Azamal Husen
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Role of Antioxidants in Mitigating Plant Stress explores the fundamental roles and mechanistic approaches of antioxidant stress tolerance strategies. With chapters addressing both enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants, it provides a clear guide for understanding plant responses. Presenting current understanding of these components, the book features their role, molecular properties, and reaction mechanisms to various environmental conditions. This book provides an important reference for researchers and advanced level students seeking to improve plant health.Plants are regularly exposed to various kinds of abiotic and biotic stresses in their natural environmental conditions. These stresses have significant influence on agriculture worldwide and thus, lead to massive economic losses as well as food insecurity. Research has identified many of the effects of, and mitigation techniques for, various stresses that impact plant systems. Strategies for strengthening the antioxidant defense system can increase yields and protect crop plants from a variety of stresses.

Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome

1st Edition
February 6, 2025
Mohammad Yaseen Mir + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome: Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses presents the current understanding of seed and microbiota associations, emphasizing recent findings that highlight the latest insights into these interactions, and how they may ultimately influence plant ecology, health and productivity in both natural and agricultural systems. The development and dispersal of seeds and their transition to seedlings are among the most critical stages of the life cycle of plants and seed health is of crucial global importance for producing both quantity and high quality crops to feed world’s population. It is important for seeds to be produced that contain the best hybrid embryo so that it is free of diseases, includes beneficial endophytes and ensures a healthy start of a seedling. Focusing on the role of seed microbiota, their transmission and implications for producing healthier seeds as well as the relationship between the seed microbiome and primed plant resistance this book reveals the targeted use of the seed microbiome to enrich the soil biodiversity and its resilience and its resulting impact on plant health and yield. also explores the importance of nanotechnology in the development and production of crops for both improved plant production, and plant protection. It explores the different microbes that are vectored onto and within the seeds of both cultivated and non-cultivated plants, with an emphasis on the importance and roles of seed microbiomes in sustainable agriculture. It explains how to change seeds to increase microbiome vectoring; repairing damaged ones, and conserves seed microbiota. It also present seed microbiome roles for plant health and design effective microbiome engineering.

Essential Minerals in Plant-Soil Systems

1st Edition
April 29, 2024
Azamal Husen
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Essential Minerals in Plant-Soil Systems: Coordination, Signaling, and Interaction under Adverse Situations is the first book to encompass these key aspects of plant science, biochemistry, soil science and fertilizer development in a single volume. Describing the micro- and macronutrients in the plant-soil system with the help of suitable illustrations, the book connects all the pieces enabling comprehensive and connected understanding. Sections cover recent advances in the understanding of how plants coordinate the acquisition, transport, signaling, and interaction, and cross-talks between macro‐ and micro-nutrients in adverse environmental situations.This book is a valuable reference for those putting research into practice in addressing stress situations, as well as providing important foundational insights for further research.

Biostimulants in Plant Protection and Performance

1st Edition
March 16, 2024
Azamal Husen
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Biostimulants in Plant Protection and Performance provides the latest research on biostimulants, a diverse class of compounds that includes substances or microorganisms that are helpful in sustainable plant growth and development. These substances accelerate plant growth, yield, and chemical composition even under unfavorable conditions, and include nitrogen-containing compounds, humic materials, some specific compounds released by microbes, plants, and animals, various seaweed extracts, bio-based nanomaterials, phosphite, silicon, and more. Additionally, the book discusses new generation products and bioproducts that are being developed for sustainable plant growth and protection, including research updates in biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, and the protective role of biostimulants. As the use of new generation biostimulants can enhance plant production systems through a significant reduction of synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides and fertilizers, and even elicit plant tolerance to various climate change-related stresses, this book is a welcomed edition to many fields of study.

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