Main description:

Priming-Mediated Stress and Cross-Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants provides the latest, in-depth understanding of the molecular mechanisms associated with the development of stress and cross-stress tolerance in plants. Plants growing under field conditions are constantly exposed, either sequentially or simultaneously, to many abiotic or biotic stress factors. As a result, many plants have developed unique strategies to respond to ever-changing environmental conditions, enabling them to monitor their surroundings and adjust their metabolic systems to maintain homeostasis. Recently, priming mediated stress and cross-stress tolerance (i.e., greater tolerance to a second, stronger stress after exposure to a different, milder primary stress) have attracted considerable interest within the scientific community as potential means of stress management and for producing stress-resistant crops to aid global food security.

Priming-Mediated Stress and Cross-Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants comprehensively reviews the physiological, biochemical, and molecular basis of cross-tolerance phenomena, allowing researchers to develop strategies to enhance crop productivity under stressful conditions and to utilize natural resources more efficiently. The book is a valuable asset for plant and agricultural scientists in corporate or government environments, as well as educators and advanced students looking to promote future research into plant stress tolerance.

Contents:

1. Priming mediated stress and cross-stress tolerance in plants: concepts and opportunities 2. Plant physiology and Molecular Mechanisms in Cross-regulation of Biotic-Abiotic Stress Responses 3. Getting ready with the priming: Innovative weapons against biotic and abiotic crop enemies in a global changing scenario 4. H2O2-retrograde signaling as a pivotal mechanism to understand priming and cross stress tolerance in plants 5. Induced resistance to biotic stress in plants by natural compounds: Possible mechanisms 6. Induction of plant resistance to biotic stress by priming with ss-aminobutyric acid (BABA) and its effect on nitrogen-fixing nodule development 7. Drought stress memory and subsequent drought stress tolerance in plants 8. Reactive nitrogen species mediated cross-stress tolerance in plants 9. Drought priming-induced heat tolerance: Metabolic pathways and and molecular mechanisms 10. Heat shock induced stress tolerance in plants: Physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of acquired tolerance 11. Heat priming induces intra- and trans-generational thermo-tolerance in crop plants. 12. Induction of cross tolerance by cold priming and acclimation in plants: Physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms 13. Roles of reactive oxygen species in modulating cross tolerance in plants via flavonoids 14. Hydrogen sulfide: A novel signaling molecule in plant cross-stress tolerance 15. Plant transcriptional regulation in modulating cross-tolerance to stress 16. Molecular mechanisms regulating priming and stress memory 17. Abiotic and biotic stress interactions in plants: A cross-tolerance perspective 18. Seed priming-induced physiochemical and molecular events in plants coupled to abiotic stress tolerance: An overview 19. Cross-tolerance to abiotic stress at different levels of organizations: Prospects for scaling-up from laboratory to field