From the Publisher
Discover what improves stress resistance to cold in woody plants used in
horticulture!
Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to
Environmental Stresses covers the latest and most significant advances in woody
plant stress research. Few books focus on the low-temperature stress biology of
woody plants that are of horticultural importance. This book will appeal to
graduate students, instructors, and researchers who specialize in plant stress
physiology in botany, agriculture, horticulture, landscape design, or
forestry.
The authors of this book, led by Dr. Rajeev Arora, are
world-renowned researchers who have made significant contributions to the
knowledge of woody plant stress physiology and molecular biology. Adaptations
and Responses of Woody Plants to Environmental Stresses will keep you up-to-date
on current findings in the fundamental understanding of the various aspects of
woody plants’ responses to environmental stresses. With figures, tables, graphs,
illustrations, and black-and-white and color photos documenting the studies of
these researchers and scientists, this book offers a new awareness of the
physiology and molecular biology of cold acclimation in woody plants.
The book will provide you with innovative research on:
the freezing process—ice nucleation, propagation, and deep supercooling
in
woody plants
the biology of dormancy induction and release in woody
plants—physiologic,
molecular, and cellular mechanisms
the physiology and
regulation of seasonal nitrogen cycling in woody plants
the importance of
dehydrins—a unique class of stress proteins—in cold
hardening of certain
woody plants
nitrogen-fixation as a stress-avoidance strategy in certain
woody plants
Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to
Environmental Stresses provides groundbreaking analysis and scientific research
to facilitate future efforts in increasing tolerance and protection from various
biotic and abiotic stresses, especially freeze injuries. This book paves the way
for researchers and scientists to develop tougher plants with improved
resistance to environmental stress and better strategies to protect plants from stressful
conditions.
What People Are Saying
Paul H. Li
Presents STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH and understanding of plant hardiness in
terms of molecular biology, biochemistry, and physiology. . . . Provides
readers with a view of recent advances in perennial woody plant hardiness
research. Five chapters review freezing stress. . . . Three chapters review
how the plant initiates its endodormancy/cold acclimation. . . . Other
chapters deal with the role of bark storage proteins, nitrogen fixation in
non-legume woody perennials, and pathogenesis-related proteins.
—PhD, Professor of Horticultural Science & Plant Biological
Sciences, University of Minnesota
L. V. Gusta
VERY INFORMATIVE. . . . Provides both an historical overview and recent
developments in the understanding of both cold acclimation and dormancy and
the factors that affect these processes. There is a good balance between
cold acclimation and dormancy plus two chapters on nitrogen and one on
pathogen-related proteins.
—PhD, Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of
Sasketchewan
loading...