Plant Stress Tolerance: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies, Volume Two explores methods of precise management of biotic stressors including pests and pathogens. This is based on advanced molecular technologies including mutagenesis, genetic engineering, genome-wide association study, marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, molecular marker-based platforms, functional genomics, multiple omics tools, high-throughput technologies, computational biology, epigenetic manipulation, and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based genome editing.
This book proposes strategies involving immunity-boosting through releasing genetic resources from naturally resistant plants, regulating defense systems by phytohormones, promoting disease tolerance by biostimulants, and nanotechnology such as nanocarriers for managing biotic stressors. These positive approaches help to advance and accelerate breeding programs for disease-tolerant crops against various pests and pathogens.
Plant Stress Tolerance: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies, Volume Two is an ideal reference for the research fields of plant pathology, plant disease management, plant physiology, plant functional genomics, multiple omics, systems biology, and crop breeding. The book inspires ideas from the reader regarding future research on disease-resilient crops to face the challenge of global climate change and the increasing human population.
Table of Contents:
1. Plant Cuticle Synthesis and Tolerance to Stress
Juan Carlos Mateos del Amo, Rafael Fernández-Muñoz, Eva Dominguez, Antonio Heredia, Fernando Gallardo
2. Disease Resistance in Crops: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies
Fatima Ezzahra Soussani, Chayma Ikan, Hanane Boutaj, Wissal Benaffari, Rachid Lahlali, Abdelilah Meddich
3. Mutagenesis: A Promising Strategy for Elevating Plant Tolerance to Biotic Stress
Mohd Ali, Sandeep Kour, Deepak kumar, Roohi Sharma, Parkirti, Vikram, Rajesh Kumari Manhas, Harish Changotra, Puja Ohri
4. Enhancing the resilience of apple to fire blight and winter injury in a warming world
Dustin E. MacLean, Yunfei Jiang, Rachid Lahlali, Ian R. Willick
5. Recent advancement in Genetic engineering techniques in disease resistance of crops: An outlook
Licon Kumar Acharya, Suryakant Manik, Madhuri Pradhan, Ajanta Birah, M.K Khokar, Debjyoti Majumder, Akbar Hossain
6. Phytohormones: Crucial factors for plant stress tolerance
Priyanka Saha, Bishal Debnath, Neha Sharma, Suman Dutta, Anamika Barman, Anurag Bera, Swagata Mandal
7. Integration of Multi-omics Approaches and Speed Breeding for Plant Stress Tolerance: Challenges and Opportunities
Asad Azeem, Furqan Tayyab, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Faiz Ahmad Joyia
8. Understanding Stress-Related Genes and the Role of Biostimulants in Biotic and Abiotic Stress Response to Improve Plant Breeding and Cultivation Methods
K. Varun, B. S. Lakshmi
9. ABC proteins as regulators of plant tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses
Gohar Sahakyan, Naira Sahakyan
10. Plant genome editing for pest management: Current achievements and future directions
Prodipto Bishnu Angon, Md. Shafiul Islam, Sharah Jabeen Mou, Arpita Roy, Md. Inzamam-Ul-Haque, Akivha Akter Sweety, Monisha Mondol
11. Plant genome editing for viral disease management: Current achievements and future directions
Shitosri Mondal, Prodipto Bishnu Angon, Md. Shakil Uddin, Arpan Das, Monisha Mondol, Md. Shafiul Islam
12. CRISPR plants against fungal diseases: Methods and applications
Lara Jadhav, Richa Das, Shreni Agrawal, Indrani Bhattacharya, Pradeep Kumar, Amit Kumar Singh, Vishnu D Rajput, Tatiana Minkina, Kavindra Nath Tiwari, Sunil Kumar Mishra
13. Plant Bacterial Disease Tolerance: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies
Abdul Razak Ahmed, Kübra Budak Tek, Mümin Ibrahim Tek
14. Alternative strategies to control bacterial diseases in plants
Khadija Benamar, Ikram Legrifi, Mohammed Radi, Kaoutar Bourak, Salma Benchlih, Tourya Sagouti, Rachid Lahlali
15. Beneficial Microbes for Phytonematode Control in Vegetable Crops
Salah-Eddine Laasli, Najwa Seddiqi Kallali, Ikram Leghrifi, Fouad Mokrini, Abdelfattah Dababat, Rachid Lahlali
16. The role of microbial consortia in controlling soilborne pathogens
Oumaima Benaissa, Ikram Legrifi, Salah-Eddine Laasli, Kaoutar Bourak, Tourya Sagouti, Zineb Belabess, Rachid Lahlali
17. Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies for Inset Pest Resistance in Fruit Crops
Priscilla Amponsah, Augustine Antwi-Boasiako, Justice Frimpong Amankwahd, Muhammad Khuram Razzaq
18. Physiological and molecular mechanism of insect-herbivory tolerance in plants: A potential tool for resistance breeding
Kaushik Pramanik, Amit Layek, Durga Mahalanobish, Debashis Roy, Debjyoti Majumder
About the Author :
Dr. Jen-Tsung Chen is a professor of cell biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He also teaches genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. Dr. Chen’s research interests include bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. He is an active editor of academic books and journals to advance the exploration of multidisciplinary knowledge involving plant physiology, plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, ethnopharmacology, systems biology, and drug discovery. He serves as an editorial board member and a guest editor in several reputed journals. Dr. Chen published books in collaboration with international publishers on diverse topics such as drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, plant speed breeding, CRISPR-based plant genome editing, and artificial intelligence. In 2023, Dr. Chen has been included in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University.
