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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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group ,
c2011
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
| Series: | Books in soils, plants, and the environment
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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