Abiotic Stress: Molecular Genetics and GenomicsMukesh Jain, Rohini Garg, Rajeev K Varshney Abiotic stresses are the major cause that limits productivity of crop plants worldwide. Plants have developed intricate machinery to respond and adapt over these adverse environmental conditions both at physiological and molecular levels. Due to increasing problems of abiotic stresses, plant biotechnologists and breeders need to employ new approaches to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. Although current research has divulged several key genes, gene regulatory networks and quantitative trait loci that mediate plant responses to various abiotic stresses, the comprehensive understanding of this complex trait is still not available. This e-book is focused on molecular genetics and genomics approaches to understand the plant response/adaptation to various abiotic stresses. It includes different types of articles (original research, method, opinion and review) that provide current insights into different aspects of plant responses and adaptation to abiotic stresses. |
Contents
Molecular genetics and genomics of abiotic stress responses | 4 |
Genomics strategies for germplasm characterization and the development of climate resilient crops | 6 |
common players but different pathways | 10 |
unraveling the signaling networks | 15 |
The transcriptional regulatory network in the drought response and its crosstalk in abiotic stress responses including drought cold and heat | 25 |
Physiological and genomic basis of mechanicalfunctional tradeoff in plant vasculature | 32 |
Integrating omic approaches for abiotic stress tolerance in soybean | 50 |
Virusinduced gene silencing is a versatile tool for unraveling the functional relevance of multiple abioticstressresponsive genes in crop plants | 62 |
Comparative phylogenomics of the CBLCIPK calciumdecoding network in the moss Physcomitrella Arabidopsis and other green lineages | 74 |
Allele diversity for abiotic stress responsive candidate genes in chickpea reference set using gene based SNP markers | 91 |