Main description:

Biologists worldwide now speak the scientific language of molecular biology and use the same molecular tools. Interest is growing in the molecular biology of abiotic stress tolerance and modes of installing better tolerant mechanisms in crop plants. Current studies make plants capable of sustaining their yields even under stressful conditions. Further, this information may form the basis for its application in biotechnology and bioinformatics.

Contents:

List of Contributors Preface 1. Introduction ; K.V. Madhava Rao.- 2.Water Stress; A. Yokota, K. Takahara and K. Akashi.- 3.Salt Stress; Zora Dajic .- 4. High Temperature Stress; Thomas D. Sharkey and Stephen M. Schrader.- 5. Freezing Stress; Russell G. Trischuk, Brian S. Schilling, M. Wisniewski and Lawrence V. Gusta .- 6.Photooxidative Stress; Attipalli R. Reddy and Agepati S. Raghavendra.- 7.Nutrient Stress; K. Janardhan Reddy.- 8.Heavy Metal Stress; Ksenija Gasic and Schuyler S. Korban.- 9.Metabolic Engineering for Stress Tolerance; Bala Rathinasabapathi and Ramandeep Kaur.- 10.Functional Genomics of Stress Tolerance; Akhilesh K. Tyagi, Shubha Vij and Navinder Saini.- Index