Download or read book Frontiers in Plant Science 2020 Highlights written by Frontiers in Plant Science Editorial Office and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Editorial Office of Frontiers in Plant Science would like to thank all the Chief Editors, Associate Editors and Review Editors that played an integral part in Frontiers’ innovative Collaborative Peer-Review process in 2020. In particular, we would like to recognize and thank Prof. Joshua L. Heazlewood – our now former Field Chief Editor, for his commitment, support and enthusiasm for the Plant Science field. Josh’s dedication and leadership has helped Frontiers in Plant Science become the most cited journal in the field with a strong editorial community. Looking forward, we’re excited to welcome Prof. Yunde Zhao, as our new Field Chief Editor in 2021. Having been with Frontiers in Plant Science since 2017, Yunde has contributed extensively to the development of the journal and will continue to ensure the journal goes from strength to strength.
Download or read book Highlights of ENPER2019 European Network for Plant Endomembrane Research Meeting written by Fernando Aniento and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 10 years of Frontiers in Plant Science written by Yunde Zhao and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advancement of Melatonin Research in Plants written by Aryadeep Roychoudhury and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a widely studied biomolecule, and its function has been investigated in bacteria, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and plants. Melatonin research in plants the last five years has attained an exponential growth phase and the number of publications related to phytomelatonin has significantly increased in present times. All this research is directed towards establishing multifarious roles of melatonin in plants, including the promotion of seed germination and seedling growth, influencing plant development and senescence, alteration of flowering and fruiting time and grain yield, modulating circadian rhythms, improving resistance against biotic stress as well as tolerance to abiotic stress, reducing oxidative stress, and stimulating plant immune response. However, to date, an exhaustive book, solely and exclusively dedicated to melatonin research on various aspects of plant biology, has not been published by any renowned publisher or is available in the market. Keeping all these facts in mind, this book aims to compile the most recent developments in the arena of melatonin-mediated regulation of plant physiology under optimal and sub-optimal conditions. This book will initiate and introduce the readers to the state-of-the-art developments and trends in this field of study and will largely cater to the scientific need of scientists engaged in melatonin research across the globe. The book will be unique of its kind and will draw the attention of scientific and research communities engaged in the field of melatonin research. The key features of this book: Authors will address the topics which would provide advances in the understanding of diverse functions of melatonin in plants, encompassing almost all the aspects that have been investigated so far Integrate the overall mechanistic function of melatonin, genomics and proteomics tools, and genetic engineering to manipulate endogenous melatonin levels, thus giving a holistic view of plant-level studies under normal or challenging situations Largely help the readers to design future research programs in exploiting melatonin as a protective agent to develop climate-resilient and pathogen-resistant plants Benefit the crop protection program and ensure food security Chapters will be supplemented with ample illustrations and figures This book will be beneficial to research scholars and Ph.D. students involved in melatonin research and working on stress physiology, stress proteins, genomics, proteomics and genetic engineering in different universities and research institutes all over the world. The book can also be used as an advanced reference book for the coursework of research and master’s level students. It will be of use to people involved in improving plant growth and yield, as well as the performance of plant species in the face of climate change and pathogen infection, using melatonin as the prime protective agent and signaling molecule. Although the book will directly benefit the academic and scientific community, it will also indirectly draw the attention of industries or companies that manufacture or sell chemical products, since the book will highlight in detail the antioxidative potential of melatonin. This will create impetus at the industrial level for the isolation and synthesis of melatonin as a beneficial chemical agent. Applying melatonin as an ameliorating agent against different stresses at the field level will also increase the demand for this chemical among the farmers and will promote large-scale sales and utilization of melatonin for ensuring crop protection and increasing yield.
Download or read book Artificial Polyploidy in Plants written by Jen-Tsung Chen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adaptation of Dryland Plants to a Changing Environment written by Zhiyou Yuan and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Plant Stress Using Salicylic Acid written by Anket Sharma and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANAGING PLANT STRESS USING SALICYLIC ACID Enables readers to understand the ability of salicylic acid in reducing the effects of abiotic stresses in different crop species Salicylic acid is an important plant hormone which acts as a multifunctional molecule and regulates key physiological and biochemical processes in plants. This book highlights the tremendous potential of treating plants with salicylic acid, either prior to or during stress. It focuses on the specific challenges and opportunities related to exogenous application or priming technology, such as the mode of application, new methodologies, and the potential impacts of salicylic acid on the environment. Sample topics covered in the book include: The latest research on the ability of salicylic acid in reducing the effects of abiotic stresses in different crop species The mechanism of action of salicylic acid at the biochemical and molecular level Salicylic acid and its crosstalk with other plant hormones under stressful environments Regulation of abiotic stress by salicylic acid at the gene level The role of salicylic acid on the postharvest physiology of plants This book will be of significant interest to researchers, academics, and scientists working in the field of salicylic acid mediated responses in plants under challenging environments and with abiotic stress tolerance.
Download or read book Climate Change and Legumes written by Mohammad Zabed Hossain and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change has created unprecedented challenges for human civilization due to its widespread adverse consequences, including a reduction in crop yield and threatening food security across the globe. Among the crop plants, legumes have great potential for ameliorating global warming since they can reduce carbon emissions by lowering reliance on the application of chemical fertilizers, by increasing nitrification and carbon sequestration in soil, and by providing protein-rich diets to both humans and livestock. This book identifies the extent of climate-induced stresses on legume plants and focuses on achieving food security through sustainable agricultural practices. This book compiles recent research findings and reviews on climate-related problems, the potential of legumes in ameliorating the impacts of climate change, as well as better management of agricultural land and practices for achieving environmental sustainability and food security. This book will serve as guidelines for scientists, agricultural practitioners, and policymakers working to achieve food security and better management of climate-induced stresses in agricultural interventions. It will also be useful as a reference book for researchers and students of both graduate and postgraduate levels. Furthermore, this book will provide enhanced knowledge about the mechanisms of yield and stress tolerance of legumes as well as developing climate-smart crops and improving cropping systems for a sustainable environment and food security. Features of the book Reviews trends of global climate change and its consequences for food security across the continents Identifies the challenges and scopes of cultivating legumes in achieving food security in the context of global climate change Focuses on the improvements of legume production through conservation approaches in agricultural practices and modern techniques, including omics-based breeding, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and rhizobium technology Discusses the sustainable amelioration options for soils affected by climate-induced stresses Cites examples of applications of rhizobium technologies in reducing greenhouse gas emission Describes pathways associated with yield, resistance, and tolerance of legumes to climate-induced stresses
Download or read book Photosynthesis in a Changing Global Climate a Matter of Scale written by Iker Aranjuelo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Omics in Plant Insect Interactions written by Shengli Jing and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbivorous insects, such as piercing-sucking hemipteran insects and chewing Lepidopteran insects, must establish close associations with their host plants in order to modulate plant cellular processes to promote feeding and reproduction. In response to herbivore attacks, plants have developed a complex immune system such as plant signalings, plant resistant genes, and plant secondary metabolite. A sophisticated molecular arms race between plants and insects involves the interaction between different molecules from plants and insects. The secondary metabolite and resistant genes of plants can be used as defense tools against the infestation of insects. In contrast, the various types of detoxification enzymes and effectors from insects can interfere with plant defense at multiple levels for better adaptation. These metabolite substances and resistant genes of plants and detoxification enzymes and effectors of insects are involved in complex networks of genetic, physical, metabolic and molecular interactions between plants and insects. And these molecules and genes can be identified by the new omics technologies, including genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolomics, and so on. Omics analyses have provided new insights and understanding into the relationships between plants and insects as well as the underlying molecular mechanisms of their interactions. Understanding the molecular interaction between plants and insects can help develop new and improved plant-resistant varieties and novel green control strategies.
Download or read book Plant Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis written by Xiang Pu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant secondary metabolites are a diverse group of compounds that contribute to many important biological and ecological functions. They are synthesized by plants to interact with the biotic and abiotic environments, playing roles in plant defense, growth, and development. Additionally, plant secondary metabolites have widespread applications in human industries, including food additives, cosmetics, dyes, insecticides, and drugs. The biosynthesis of these compounds is complex and dynamic, with more than one million secondary metabolites identified from terrestrial and aquatic plants. Despite their diversity, plants produce limited quantities of secondary metabolites in a metabolic cost-saving way. This has greatly limited their commercial production, and the overexploitation of source plants has raised concerns about their sustainability and highlighted the need for advanced research. Recent advances in genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and other omics technologies have revolutionized our understanding of plant biology, enabling the discovery of new plant secondary metabolites and their biosynthetic pathways. Functional genomics approaches, such as genome-wide association studies, transcriptome analysis, and gene editing, have facilitated the identification and characterization of genes and enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of specific secondary metabolites. Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches have enabled the manipulation of plant secondary metabolism to improve the yield and quality of specific metabolites of interest or to produce them in heterologous cultures. These advances have created new opportunities for the sustainable production and utilization of plant secondary metabolites.
Download or read book Photosynthesis Under Fluctuating Light written by Michele Grieco and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photosynthesis is a fundamental process that drives almost all life on Earth, and is the motor of agriculture and food production. For several decades, its basic functioning has been investigated mainly at steady-state, under constant illumination. This approach was necessary to understand the basic mechanisms underlying the light reactions and carbon assimilation. However, this condition does not reflect the natural environment, where plants experience changes in both the intensity and spectrum of irradiance in a wide range of time scales, spanning from seconds to several hours. In recent years, it has become clear that the processes allowing the photosynthetic apparatus to adapt to changes in irradiance are of paramount importance to plant fitness and productivity. Therefore, increased research effort has been directed towards studying the regulation of photosynthetic activity under fluctuating light, i.e. upon the variation of light intensity or light spectrum. This is important for understanding how photosynthetic organisms cope with natural environmental conditions. Fluctuating light itself constitutes a potentially stressful condition, because, depending on the scale of the fluctuation, it can transiently generate extreme redox and transthylakoid potentials, and forces the photosynthetic machinery to be re-adjusted. Not surprisingly, plants have evolved several mechanisms allowing a prompt response to these normal environmental events. In natural environments, photosynthetic organisms often have to cope with fluctuating light while experiencing other kinds of stress, such as heat, nutrient deficiency, drought, and pathogen attacks. Therefore, the study of combined stresses is essential for understanding the acclimation to realistic environmental conditions.
Download or read book Model Organisms in Plant Developmental Biology their effectiveness and limitations written by Neelima Roy Sinha and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model organisms represent an invaluable resource for fundamental and applied research, allowing the identification of the mechanistic basis of evolutionary innovations. This article collection will showcase studies of established as well as emerging Model Organisms in Plant Developmental Biology - their effectiveness and limitations, that have significance to the field broadly, including EvoDevo. Classically used for genetic and molecular studies in Plant Biology, model organisms are progressively entering many subdisciplines within Plant Development and EvoDevo. Recent advancements in the fast-growing field of plant model organisms, and their hugely increased phylogenetic breadth and availability of genomes and transgenic techniques, have led to a burst of innovative ideas and synthesis in recent publications spanning the range from an analysis of fossils to single-cell sequencing. However, it also raises the question of how broad is the application of knowledge gained from these studies, and its relevance to the field of Plant Development and EvoDevo. To address those questions, this research topic focuses on new insights, latest discoveries, current challenges, and future perspectives in the study of model organisms and how much knowledge gained from them can be extrapolated broadly. Authors are encouraged to identify the greatest unifying concepts in their sub-disciplines, and the challenges, emerging from the use of model plants, as well as to put forward potential solutions to address those challenges.
Download or read book Plant Speed Breeding and High throughput Technologies written by Jen-Tsung Chen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research field of “plant speed breeding" is promising to meet the future demand for crop improvement in an efficient and effective manner. The process accelerates breeding and research programs through the shortening of the generation time of crops. Plant Speed Breeding and High-Throughput Technologies explores and analyzes a range of innovations from CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing to state-of-the-art controlled-environment growth chambers. The book integrates achievements of plant speed breeding technologies with an emphasis on the fundamental and advanced systems for genome editing, functional genomics, controlled-environment growth chambers, genomic and phenotypic selection methods, and high-throughput technologies. It examines the applications of technologies across major model plants and key crops such as cereals, vegetables, and fruit trees. The book explores high-throughput genotyping using next-generation sequencing systems, enabling precise single nucleotide polymorphism markers, quantitative trait loci mapping, and genome-wide association studies . These tools are used in identifying candidate genes that will revolutionize crop breeding, as they are capable of tolerating complex abiotic and biotic stresses induced by global climate change. Serving as an ideal reference on plant speed breeding technologies, this book is for graduate students, teachers, researchers, and experts in the fields of plant sciences and plant breeding as well as agronomy and agriculture.
Download or read book Oxidative Stress Responses in Plants written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxidative Stress Response in Plants, Volume 105 covers environmental stress conditions and the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). During many stress conditions such as salt, drought, heat, and pathogen infection, changes in metabolic fluxes and alterations in enzymatic activities result in the accumulation of ROS, a major contributor to loss of growth and productivity. High levels of ROS can lead to oxidative stress which damages proteins and DNA, ultimately resulting in plant cell death. This volume provides comprehensive insights into ROS biology in plants, with a focus on plant growth and development, plant defense responses, and plant acclimation to challenging environments. On the other hand, ROS evolves into potent signaling molecules that play crucial roles in abiotic and biotic stress sensing, integration of different environmental signals, and activation of stress-response networks, thereby contributing to the establishment of improved stress resilience. - Provides a comprehensive overview of ROS biology in plants - Focuses on the production, processing and signaling roles of ROS in plants - Written by world-leading experts
Download or read book Innovative Use of Imaging Techniques within Plant Science written by Lisbeth Garbrecht Thygesen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiple Herbicide Resistant Weeds and Non target Site Resistance Mechanisms A Global Challenge for Food Production written by Joel Torra and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
