Plant adaptation to environmental change : significance of amino acids and their derivatives /

This book describes the significance of amino acids and their derivatives in plant stress adaptation/tolerance, and presents biotechnological strategies for the manipulation of amino acids and their major derivatives to improve abiotic and abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. Chapter 1 presents...

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Other Authors:	Anjum, Naser A. (Editor), Gill, Ritu (Editor), Gill, Sarvajeet Singh (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
Subjects:	Amino acids. Crops > Adaptation. Crops > Effect of stress on. Crops > Physiology. Polyamines. Environmental Tolerance of Plants. Plant Breeding and Genetics. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. Adaptation. Amines. Brassinosteroids. Derivatives. Endogenous growth regulators. Genetic improvement. Peptides. Plant growth regulators. Plants. Stress response. Stress. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Environmental Change, and Plant Amino Acids and their Derivatives - An Introduction / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill, Imran Khan and Ritu Gill
5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) - A Multifunctional Amino Acid as a Plant Growth Stimulator and Stress Tolerance Factor / Yoshikatsu Murooka and Tohru Tanaka
Cysteine - Jack of All Glutathione-based Plant Stress Defence Trades / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Ritu Gill
Amino Acids and Drought Stress in Lotus : Use of Transcriptomics and Plastidic Glutamine Synthetase Mutants for New Insights in Proline Metabolism / Pedro Díaz, Marco Betti, Margarita García-Calderón, Carmen M. Pérez-Delgado, Santiago Signorelli, Omar Borsani, Antonio J. Márquez and Jorge Monza
Modulation of Proline : Implications in Plant Stress Tolerance and Development / P. Suprasanna, Archana N. Rai, P. HimaKumari, S. Anil Kumar and P.B. KaviKishor
Target Osmoprotectants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants - Glycine Betaine and Proline / Sarvajeet S. Gill, Ritu Gill and Naser A. Anjum
Polyamines as Indicators and as Modulators of the Abiotic Stress in Plants / Pablo Ignacio Calzadilla, Ayelén Gazquez, Santiago Javier Maiale, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz and Menéndez Ana Bernardina
Polyamines in Stress Protection - Applications in Agriculture / Rubén Alcázar and Antonio F. Tiburcio
Functional Role of Polyamines and Polyamine-metabolizing Enzymes during Salinity, Drought and Cold Stresses / Aryadeep Roychoudhury and Kaushik Das
Regulatory Role of Polyamines in Growth, Development and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants / Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar and Masayuki Fujita
Polyamines - Involvement in Plant Stress Tolerance and Adaptation / Dessislava Todorova, Zornitsa Katerova, Iskren Sergiev and Vera Alexieva
Role of Polyamines in Plant-Pathogen Interactions / Abhijit Dey, Kamala Gupta and Bhaskar Gupta
Role of Polyamines in Stress Management / Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Neha Handa, Dhriti Kapoor, Harpreet Kaur, Vandana Gautam and Sukhmeen Kohli
Polyamines in Plant In Vitro Culture / Jose Luis Casas
Betaines and Related Osmoprotectants - Significance in Metabolic Engineering of Plant Stress Resistance / Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Resham Sharma and Poonam
Brassinosteroids' Role for Amino Acids, Peptides and Amines Modulation in Stressed Plants - A Review / B. Vidya Vardhini
Plant Adaptation to Environmental Change, and Significance of Amino Acids and their Derivatives - Appraisal and Perspectives / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Ritu Gill.