Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering

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Joe H. Cherry, Robert D. Locy, Anna Rychter
Springer Science & Business Media, 30.09.2000 - 360 Seiten
Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity worldwide. These stresses impact not only current crop species, they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants into areas that are not currently being used for agriculture. Stresses associated with temperature, salinity and drought, singly or in combination, are likely to enhance the severity of problems to which plants will be exposed in the coming decades.
The present book brings together contributions from many laboratories around the world to discuss and compare our current knowledge of the role stress genes play in plant stress tolerance. In addition, strategies are discussed to introduce these genes and the processes that they encode into economically important crops, and the effect this will have on plant productivity.
 

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Functional Specialization of Plant Class A and B HSFs
3
Regulated in Expression by Mechanotransduction?
29
The Regulation of GABA Accumulation by Heat Stress in Arabidopsis
39
GABA Increases the Rate of Nitrate Uptake and Utilization in Arabidopsis Roots
53
LOW TEMPERATURE STRESS
65
VersatileTooIs for Signaling Stress Cell Cycle and More
67
the Forgotten Step in Frost Hardening?
81
Genetic Engineering of Biosynthesis of Glycinebetaine Enhances Tolerance to Various Stress
95
Role of Arabidopsis MYB transcription factors in osmotic stress
181
Gene Expression during Dehydration in the Resurrection Plant Craterostigma plantagineum
195
Some Physiological and Molecular Insights into the Mechanisms of Desiccation Tolerance in the Resurrection Plant Xerophyta viscosa Baker
201
Targets of modifying plant growth and development by ABAmediated signaling
223
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
233
Positional Cloning of A Plant Salt Tolerance Gene
235
Regulation of ion homeostasis in plants and fungi
255
Adh as a Model for Analysis of the Integration of Stress Response Regulation in Plants
269

SALINITY STRESS
105
Salt Tolerance at the WholePlant Level
107
Plant homologues to the yeast halotolerance gene HAL3
125
Novel Determinants of Salinity Tolerance
131
PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS IN ENGINEERING CROPS FOR OSMOPROTECTANT SYNTHESIS
139
DROUGHT STRESS
155
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
157
Inositol Phospholipids as Mediators of Abiotic Stress Responses
285
OXIDATIVE AND HEAVY METAL STRESS
297
Manipulation of Glutathione and Ascorbate Metabolism in Plants
299
Effect on the Activated Oxygen Metabolism Protrelytic Activity
315
MetalChelate Reductases and Plant MTVs
329
Evolutionary Responses to Zinc and Copper Stress in Bladder Campion Silene vulgaris Moench Garcke
343
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