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.
Table of Contents
1. Underlying mechanisms responsible for abiotic stress responses and defense adaptation in plants: Recent advancements and future prospectsPart 1: Role of Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Antioxidants
2. Multifaceted roles in plant abiotic stress responses and tolerance mechanisms
3. Protective roles against heavy metals or metalloids stress in plants
4. Involvement against drought stress or water deficiency in plants
5. Mechanisms in waterlogging tolerance in plants
6. Contributions toward salinity stress tolerance in plants
7. Efficacy in cold stress tolerance in plants
8. Addressing heat stress in plants
9. Addressing ultraviolet radiations and weak or strong light stress in plants
10. Combating ozone stress tolerance in plants
11. Addressing nutrient deficiencies or sufficiencies in plants
12. Plant adaptation to hypoxia or anoxia stress conditions
13. Addressing xenobiotics stress in plants
Part 2: Practical Applications of Specific Antioxidants in Abiotic Stress Tolerance
14. Novel green nanoparticles to improve the crops resilience
15. Agronomic management approaches to enhance crop tolerance
16. Plant defense activation via organic and inorganic molecules and biostimulants
17. Activation of antioxidant enzymes utilizing micronutrients and phytohormones or signaling molecules
18. Advanced target and new genome-editing approaches to improve the crops resilience against abiotic stressors
19. Advanced genetic technologies to improve crop abiotic stress resilience
20. Potential of soil or plant growth promotion associated microbes? in improving the abiotic-stress resilience of agricultural crops
21. Conventional and Biotechnological metabolic engineering approaches to enhancing of abiotic stress tolerance in plants
22. Molecular underpinning of plants hormonal signaling to abiotic stressors using plant chemical and synthetic biology approaches
Authors
Zaid Ulhassan Institute of Crop Science, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy Sensing, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Dr. Zaid Ulhassan is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, China. In 2020, he was awarded with the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship supported by China Postdoc Council and Zhejiang university, China. He received his PhD on "environmental stress physiology of plants and antioxidants metabolism� from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, China with the Zhejiang University Scholarship. Primarily, his research work is focused on the physiological, biochemical and molecular analysis of field crops in response to environmental stress conditions. Besides, he has published 6 book chapters (as first author) with reputed publishers and targeted the important aspects of plant stress responses and adaptations to environmental stresses. He has attended different international conferences and presented posters in numerous international meetings. He is actively involved in reviewing papers for international journals. Yasir Hamid Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Lab of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, College of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.Dr. Yasir Hamid is working as an International Exchange Postdoc Fellow at College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University from May 2021. In 2020, he received his PhD from Zhejiang University, China under Two High Doctoral Scholarship program of Zhejiang University. Dr. Hamid's research focuses on agro-environmental contamination by potentially toxic elements such as cadmium, lead, arsenic, copper and chromium. His work expertise includes plant nutrition, soil chemistry and environmental sciences with specific focus on abatement of heavy metal risks and their remediation technologies. Dr. Hamid has authored around 65 peer reviewed papers in reputable international journals as a first and co-author. He has also delivered oral and poster presentations in international conferences held in Asian and European countries. Dr. Hamid is a regular reviewer of several international journals of various publishing groups. Dr. Hamid is currently collaborating with reputable scientists of environmental science field from Oman, Australia, United States, Germany and Canada for various writing projects.
Weijun Zhou Institute of Crop Science, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy Sensing, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Prof. Weijun Zhou is a Full Professor (Qiushi Distinguished Professor) in the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on crop science, especially canola germplasm enhancement, molecular breeding, crop molecular physiology and weed control. He has published more than 150 refereed papers, 10 books/chapters and 50 conference and technical articles.? Dr. Zhou is the Executive Member of Crop Science Society of China, Oil Crops Committee of Crop Science Society of China, Weed Science Society of China, Crop Science Society of Zhejiang Province and the Deputy Head of Crop Physiology Committee of Crop Science Society of China. He spent 6 years of study and research at universities and institutes in the UK, Sweden, Germany and Japan. Prof. Zhou is a member of the board for the journals Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Crop & Pasture Science, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, and PLoS ONE
