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CABI Publishing Plant Stress Physiology 2012 Edition by Sergey Shabala, Vadim Demidchik, Jill Farrant
The fact that most of the suitable land has already been cultivated, meeting a projected target of a 50% increase in the global food production by 2050 to match the projected population growth becomes a challenging task. This book provides a timely update on the recent progress in our knowledge on all aspects of plant's perception, signalling and adaptation to a variety of environmental stresses such as drought, salinity, temperature and pH extremes, waterlogging, oxidative stress, and pathogens. Table of contents :- 1: Drought Tolerance in Crops: Physiology to Genomics 2: Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Stress in Plants 3: Salinity Stress: Physiological Constraints and Adaptive Mechanisms 4: Chilling Stress 5: Heat Stress 6: Frost Tolerance in Plants 7: Flooding Tolerance in Plants 8: Adaptations to Aluminium Toxicity 9: Soil pH Extremes 10: Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants 11: Desiccation Tolerance 12: Ultraviolet-B Radiation: From Stressor to Regulatory Signal 13: Biotic Stress Signalling: Calcium-Mediated Pathogen Defence Programmes