Plant Hormones under Challenging Environmental Factors
This book presents recent advances in understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms of different abiotic stresses such as high or low temperature, salinity, drought, flooding, soil acidity, heavy metals, light stress and ozone stress, an
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Plant Hormones under Challenging Environmental Factors
Golam Jalal Ahammed • Jing-Quan Yu Editors
Plant Hormones under Challenging Environmental Factors
Editors Golam Jalal Ahammed Department of Horticulture Zhejiang University Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Jing-Quan Yu Department of Horticulture Zhejiang University Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
ISBN 978-94-017-7756-8 ISBN 978-94-017-7758-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7758-2
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This book is dedicated to the Institute of Vegetable Science of Zhejiang University for advancing vegetable research and industry in China.
Preface
In nature, plants are often exposed to different environmental adversities. Although success in crop cultivation involves good care and management, some environmental factors at extreme states pose serious challenges that ultimately limit crop production. Abiotic stress is one of the primary causes of crop losses worldwide. The stress caused by abiotic factors alters normal plant metabolism leading to various negative effects on plant growth, development, and productivity. To survive, sessile plants have evolved a wide array of molecular programs to perceive environmental stimuli rapidly and adapt accordingly. In recent years, much progress has been achieved in unraveling the complex stress response mechanisms, particularly the involvement of different phytohormones in stress perception and signal transduction. Phytohormones are the most fascinating features of plant system that precisely regulate growth, development, and responses to stresses. In addition to normal regulatory functions, classical phytohormones such as auxins, cytokini
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