Plant Stress Physiology

Contents

• Environmental stress, Types of environmental stress
• Drought Stress: measurement of drought stress, drought tolerance in crops, hormonal regulation of drought tolerance.
• Temperature stress: chilling stress, freezing stress and tolerance, adaptation to freezing stress, biochemical and molecular mechanisms, heat stress, heat shock response, phytohormones and temperature.
• Reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in plants, Mechanisms of ROS- and oxidative stress-mediated signaling and regulation, molecular physiology of oxidative stress in plants.
• Salinity Stress: physiological constraints and adaptive mechanisms. Salinity-induced genes and molecular basis of salt-tolerant strategies in plants, salt amelioration strategies and its molecular mechanisms and applications.
• Heavy metal toxicity in plants.
• Radiation stress: radiation hazards, avoidance and tolerance.
• Nutritional stress.
• Biotic stress: disease stress (fungal, bacterial, viral) and crop yield loss, the impact of herbivory and insects on plants.
• Stress signaling, signaling molecules.

• Gravity is a crucial environmental factor regulating plantgrowth and development.
• Plants have the ability to sense a change in the direction of gravity, which leads to the re-orientation of their growth direction, so-called gravitropism

Recommended Books

• Rout G.R, Das A.B. Molecular stress physiology of plants. 2013.
• Shabala S. 2012. Plant stress physiology. Wallingford publisher.
• Singh D.P. 2003. Stress Physiology. New Age International (P) Limited Publishers. ISB
• Robert K.D. Peterson. Higley L.G. 2000. Biotic stress and yield loss. CRC Press Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C.