Handbook of plant and crop stress

"The dynamic and expanding knowledge of environmental stresses and their effects on plants and crops have resulted in the compilation of a large volume of information in the last ten years since the publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress. With 90 percent new...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pessarakli, Mohammad , 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group , c2011
Edition:3rd ed
Series:Books in soils, plants, and the environment
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Soil salinity and sodicity problems
  • 2. Plant/crop tolerance and stressful conditions
  • 3. Plants and crop responses:physio;ogy, cellular, and molecular biology, and microbiological aspects under salt, drought, heat, cold, light, and other stressful conditions
  • 4. Plant and crop responses to pollution stress
  • 5. Plant and crop responses to weeds, pests, pathogens, and agrichemical stress conditions
  • 6. Genetic factors and plant/crop genomics under stress
  • 7. Examples of empirical investigations of specific plants and crops grown in salt, drought, and other environmental stress conditions
  • 8. Climatic changes, elevated carbon dioxide, and plant/crop responses
  • 9. Future promises:improving plant and crop adaptation/tolerance and cultivation under stressful conditions
  • 10. Beneficial aspects of stress