Sanjib Kumar Panda – författare

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the functional genomics to develop a stress resilience crop.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the functional genomics to develop a stress resilience crop. The book will be helpful to students doing their Master's, Ph.D., postdoc, and the scientific community in the fields of molecular biology, biotechnology, and crop improvement. The individual chapters of the proposed book will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanism, which is yet to be characterized for improving stress tolerance.Abiotic stresses such as drought, high soil salinity, heat, cold, oxidative stress, and heavy metal toxicity are common adverse environmental conditions that affect and limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding the molecular basis of plant response to these environmental conditions has been a major focus of recent research. Abiotic stress is a complex trait, which is governed by multiple genes, i.e., "e;Functional Genomics"e;, which aims to identify genes and determine their functions. Plant functional genome analysis has progressed to a high-throughput stage. The various parameters for developing abiotic stress resilience plants can be studied using transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics (OMICS). As a result, the study of functional genomics is critical in the development of crop production and meeting the demands of the world's ever-increasing population. This book is aimed at students, teachers, and scientists in academia and relevant private companies who are interested in the fields of crop improvement, horticulture, genetics, breeding, physiology, molecular genetics, genomics, in vitro culture and genetic engineering, and structural functional genomics. Specially, this book is intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of plant stress tolerance, with a focus on abiotic stress resilience, in order to improve crop yield. The primary audience for this book includes those seeking to deepen their knowledge of the biological process underlying plant stress tolerance and to apply this knowledge to the development of novel strategies for enhancing crop productivity.

This book is an overview of our current understanding of aluminium toxicity and tolerance in plants. It covers all relevant aspects from molecular and cellular biology, to genetic approaches, root biology and plant physiology. The contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to alleviating aluminium toxicity is also discussed. Over 40% of total agricultural land resources are acidic in nature, with aluminium being the major toxicant. Plant roots are particularly susceptible to aluminium stress, but much of the complex mechanism underlying its toxicity and tolerance is unknown and aluminium stress perception in plants remains poorly understood. The diverse facets of aluminium stress adaptation covered in this book are relevant to plant biology students at all levels, as well researchers and it provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of plant adaptation to the changing environment.

This book is an overview of our current understanding of aluminium toxicity and tolerance in plants. Plant roots are particularly susceptible to aluminium stress, but much of the complex mechanism underlying its toxicity and tolerance is unknown and aluminium stress perception in plants remains poorly understood.

This book summarizes the latest research results on the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants, particularly in many abiotic stresses, and their regulation. Redox homeostasis refers to maintaining a balance of oxidised and reduced state of biomolecules in a biological system for all-round sustenance. In a living system, redox reactions contribute to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which act as signalling molecules for developmental as well as stress-response processes in plants. It is presumed that, being sessile and an aerobe requiring oxygen for mitochondrial energy production, as well as producing oxygen during photosynthesis, the redox homeostasis process is more complex and regulated in plants than in animals. Any imbalance in the homeostasis is mainly compensated for by the production of various ROS molecules, which, though they can cause severe oxidative damage in excess, can also ideally act as signalling molecules.