Main description:

Plant Stress Mitigators: Types, Techniques and Functions presents a detailed contextual discussion of various stressors on plant health and yield, with accompanying insights into options for limiting impacts using chemical elicitors, bio-stimulants, breeding techniques and agronomical techniques such as seed priming, cold plasma treatment, and nanotechnology, amongst others. The book explores the various action mechanisms for enhancing plant growth and stress tolerance capacity, including nutrient solubilizing and mobilizing, biocontrol activity against plant pathogens, phytohormone production, soil conditioners, and many more unrevealed mechanisms.

This book combines research, methods, opinion, perspectives and reviews, dissecting the stress alleviation action of different plant stress mitigators on crops grown under optimal and sub-optimal growing conditions (abiotic and biotic stresses).

Contents:

1. Approaches in stress mitigation of plants 2. Biocontrol: a novel eco-friendly mitigation strategy for managing plant diseases 3. Salicylic Acid Induced Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants 4. Salicylic Acid Mediated Postharvest Chilling and Disease Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops 5. Germination and seedling establishment of useful tropical trees for ecological restoration: Implications for conservation against environmental stresses 6. Soil health and plant stress mitigation 7. Salicylic acid and ascorbic acid as mitigators of chilling stress in plants 8. Role of glycine betaine in the protection of plants against environmental stresses 9. Effects of plant growth regulators on physiological and phytochemical parameters in medicinal plants under stress conditions 10. Proline and soluble carbohydrates biosynthesis and their roles in plants under abiotic stresses 11. Switching role of hydrogen sulfide in amelioration of metal stress in plant 12. PGPR reduces the adverse effects of abiotic stresses by modulating morphological and biochemical properties in plants 13. Role of polyamine in plants under abiotic stresses: Regulation of biochemicalinteractions 14. Prime-omics approaches to mitigate stress response in plant 15. Perspectives of using plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria under salinity stress for sustainable crop production 16. Biosaline agriculture coupled with efficient management strategies for sustainable agriculture on salt affected Vertisols 17. Chemicalelicitors- a mitigationstrategy for maximize crop yieldsunder abiotic stress 18. Role of sulphydrylbioregulator thiourea in mitigating drought stress in crops 19. Rhizobacterial-Mediated Tolerance to Plants upon Abiotic Stresses 20. Changes in plant secondary metabolite profiles in response to environmental stresses 21. Soil microbial inocula: Eco-solution for mitigating salinity stress 22. How does silicon help alleviate biotic and abiotic stresses in plants? Mechanisms and future prospects 23. Editing genomes to modify plant response to abiotic stress 24. Organic compounds as anti-stress stimulants in plants: responses and mechanisms 25. The influence of climate change on interactions between environmental stresses and plants 26. Biological control of Fusarium wilt in legumes 27. Oxidative Stress in Plants and the biochemical response mechanisms 28. Nanoparticles treatment ameliorate the side effects of stresses in plants 29. Soil moisture-mediated changes in microorganism's biomass and bioavailability of nutrients in paddy soil 30. Trichomes plasticity of plants in response to environmental stresses 31. An overview of bacterial bio-fertilizers function on soil fertility under abiotic stresses