Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Well-Designed Experiments Make Proteomic Studies on Stressed Plants Meaningful; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Designing Experiments to Mimic Abiotic Stress Observed in the Field; 1.2.1 Salt; 1.2.2 Drought; 1.2.3 Thermal Stress; 1.2.4 Waterlogging; 1.3 Managing Interactions Between Abiotic Stresses; 1.4 General Principles for the Design of 'Stress' Experiments; 1.4.1 The Importance of Time; 1.4.2 The Importance of Tissue Sampling; 1.5 How Do Acclimation and Shock Differ?; Acknowledgments; References
2 Cereal Root Proteomics for Complementing the Mechanistic Understanding of Plant Abiotic Stress ToleranceAbstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Drought; 2.1.2 Salinity; 2.1.3 Cold; 2.1.4 Heat; 2.1.5 Flooding; 2.1.6 Heavy Metal Toxicity; 2.1.7 Nutrient Deficiency; 2.2 Conclusions; References; 3 A Proteomic View of the Cereal and Vegetable Crop Response to Salinity Stress; Abstract; 3.1 The Physiological Response to Salinity Stress; 3.2 Adaptive Mechanisms for Salt Tolerance; 3.3 Salinity Stress Limits the Production of Cereal and Vegetable Crops
3.3.1 The Proteomic Response of Cereals to Salinity Stress3.3.2 The Proteomic Response of Vegetables to Salinity Stress; 3.4 Conclusion and Future Perspectives; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Proteomics of Flooding-Stressed Plants; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Proteomic Analyses of Plants Under Flooding Stress; 4.2.1 Soybean; 4.2.2 Wheat; 4.2.3 Rice; 4.2.4 Tomato; 4.2.5 Maize; 4.3 Organ-Specific Proteomics of Flooding-Stressed Plants; 4.3.1 Leaf; 4.3.2 Root; 4.4 Proteins Regulated Under Flooding Stress; 4.4.1 Proteins Related to Glycolysis and Fermentation; 4.4.2 Energy-Related Proteins
4.4.3 Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging-Related Proteins4.4.4 Cell Wall Loosening-Related Proteins; 4.4.5 Ubiquitination Proteasome-Related Proteins; 4.4.6 Proteins Regulated During Recovery from Flooding Stress; 4.5 Conclusion and Future Prospective; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Proteomic Analysis of Crop Plants Under Low Temperature: A Review of Cold Responsive Proteins; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Proteomics Tools and Techniques; 5.3 Cold Stress Response Proteins in Plants; 5.3.1 Cold-Regulated Proteins; 5.3.2 Antifreeze Proteins
5.3.3 Oxidative Stress and ROS Scavenging Related Proteins5.3.4 Photosynthesis Related Proteins; 5.3.5 Carbohydrate Metabolism Related Proteins; 5.3.6 Proteins Related to Protein Synthesis and Metabolism; 5.3.7 Proteins Related to Energy Metabolisms; 5.3.8 Signaling and Gene Regulatory Proteins; 5.4 Conclusion and Future Perspectives; References; 6 How Proteomics Contributes to Our Understanding of Drought Tolerance; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Rice and Water Deficits; 6.2.1 Panicle Exsertion and Spikelet Sterility; 6.2.2 Panicle Proteome; 6.2.3 Grain Filling and Inferior Spikelets
This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may contribute in our understanding of mechanisms involved in stress adaptation. The knowledge being accumulated by a wide range of proteomics technologies may eventually be utilized in breeding programs to enhance stress tolerance. This book presents comprehensive reviews about responses of crop and farm animals to environmental stresses. Challenges related to stress phenotyping and integration of proteomics and other omics data have also been addressed. According to FAO?s estimate, the number of people suffering from chronic hunger has increased to over a billion. Due to most of the extreme poor who suffers from hunger live in rural areas, the effort to enhance agricultural productivity will be a key element in reducing the number of global population suffering from hunger. This goal will not be achieved unless we develop new genotypes of food crops and animals that will both improve production under sub-optimal conditions. The discovery of genotypes with the capacity to cope with these problems suggests that increasing the support of breeding for fragile environments is a viable strategy for uplifting the rural poor. However, breeding for environmental stresses, is a slow and inefficient process. Also several genotypes with good stress tolerance environmental stresses have been identified or developed, it is difficult to transfer these traits into elite backgrounds because they are genetically very complex. One possibility currently being evaluated for enhancement of stress tolerance is to apply biomarkers in breeding programs to follow the inheritance of major genes that are difficult to phenotype, such as pyramids of disease resistance genes of similar effect. Proteomics is a powerful approach to identify proteins associated with stress tolerance. It offers an entry point for identifying possible significant changes in protein levels against a background of unresponsive proteins. The application of proteomics is usually initiated by detection of stress responsive proteins thought comparison between stressed and control organisms. Identification of these expressional candidate proteins may then reveal that some of them have functions clearly consistent with the stress tolerance trait. Other relevant information including the expression pattern at mRNA and metabolomics may help to further verify the correlation of these candidate proteins with desirable traits. The step forward from collecting proteomics data to functional prediction will pave the way for the sustainable agricultural production under unfavorable environmental conditions