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9780521050371

Plants under Stress: Biochemistry, Physiology and Ecology and their Application to Plant Improvement

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521050371

  • ISBN10:

    0521050375

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-02-04
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The volume identifies how stressful conditions affect plants. Various stresses, such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, high and low temperatures, can have a major impact on plant growth and survival - with important economic consequences in crop plants. This book examines some of the more important stresses, shows how they affect the plant and then reviews how new varieties or new species can be selected which are less vulnerable to stress. The wide-ranging and important consequences of stress should ensure that the volume is widely read by plant biologists at the graduate and research level.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Introduction: some terminology and common mechanisms
The impact of environmental stresses on ecosystems
Whole-plant responses to stress in natural and agricultural systems
Photosynthesis and gas exchange
Regulation of growth and development of plants growing with a restricted supply of water
Stresses, membranes and cell walls
Desiccation injury, anhydrobiosis and survival
Molecular biology: application to studies of stress tolerance
Environmental control of gene expression and stress proteins in plants
Plant tissue and protoplast culture: applications to stress physiology and biochemistry
Breeding methods for drought resistance
Selection for physiological characters - examples from breeding for salt tolerance
Prospects for improving crop production in stressful environments
Index
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