Main description:

Plant Signaling Molecule: Role and Regulation under Stressful Environments explores tolerance mechanisms mediated by signaling molecules in plants for achieving sustainability under changing environmental conditions. Including a wide range of potential molecules, from primary to secondary metabolites, the book presents the status and future prospects of the role and regulation of signaling molecules at physiological, biochemical, molecular and structural level under abiotic stress tolerance. This book is designed to enhance the mechanistic understanding of signaling molecules and will be an important resource for plant biologists in developing stress tolerant crops to achieve sustainability under changing environmental conditions.

Contents:

1. Signaling Molecules in Ecophysiological Response Mechanisms of Salt-Stressed Plants 2. Stress responsive signaling molecules and genes under stressful environments in plants 3. Engineering signaling molecules to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants 4. Genetic engineering/Genome editing approaches to modulate signaling processes in abiotic stress tolerance 5. Measurement of Signaling Molecules Ca2+, RSS, RCS, RNS and ROS in Plant Samples 6. Drought tolerance in Plants: Role of signaling molecules and its molecular mechanisms and regulation 7. Crop improvement of cereals through manipulation of signaling pathways in response to drought stress 8. Role and regulation of ROS and antioxidants as a signaling molecule in response to abiotic stresses 9. Role and regulation of plant phenolics in abiotic stress tolerance: an overview 10. Bioactive molecules as regulatory signals in plant responses to abiotic stresses 11. Biochemical and molecular regulation of phenylpropanoids pathway under abiotic stresses 12. Role and regulation of glucose as a signal molecule to salt stress 13. Role of sugars in abiotic stress signalling in plant 14. Methylglyoxal: a novel signaling molecule in plant responses to abiotic stress 15. Role of trehalose and regulation of its levels as a signal molecule to abiotic stresses in plants 16. Sugar and phytohormones regulates plant growth and development under in vitro condition 17. Role of mineral nutrients in abiotic stress tolerance - revisiting the associated signaling mechanisms 18. Sulfur availability potentiates phytohormones-mediated action in plants 19. Role and regulation of plant hormones as a signal molecule in response to abiotic stresses 20. Role and regulation of auxin signaling in abiotic stress tolerance 21. The Regulatory Signaling of Gibberellin Metabolism and Its Crosstalk with Phytohormones in Response to Plant Abiotic Stresses 22. Abscisic acid in plant abiotic stress signaling and responses 23. Salicylic acid-mediated defense mechanisms to abiotic stress tolerance 24. Role of methyl jasmonates in salt stress tolerance in crop plants 25. Insights into the nitric oxide mediated stress tolerance in plants 26. Brassinosteroid induced signaling is a complex interplay of ROS, NADPH oxidase and MAPK mediated biotic and abiotic stress acclimation in plants 27. Role and regulation of osmolytes and ABA interaction in salt and drought stress tolerance 28. Regulatory role of proline in heat stress tolerance: modulation by salicylic acid 29. Osmolyte diversity, distribution and their biosynthetic pathways 30. Role and regulation of osmolytes as signaling molecules to abiotic stress tolerance 31. Proteomics insights into salt stress signaling in plants 32. Role of heat shock proteins and its signaling under abiotic stress 33. C4/CAM facultative photosynthesis as a means to improve plant sustainable productivity under abiotic-stressed conditions: regulatory mechanisms and biotechnological implications 34. Protein linases and phosphatases in stress transduction - role in crop improvement 35. Nanoparticles and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Synthesis, action and signaling mechanisms