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Abiotic tolerance and crop improvement. -- Part I: Stress perception and signal transduction: Sensors and signal transducers of environmental stress in Cyanobacteria -- Stress signaling I: The role of Abscisic Acid (ABA) -- Stress signaling II: Calcium sensing and signaling -- Stress signaling III: Reactive oxygen species -- A biotic or abiotic stress? -- Protein Kinases and Phosphatases for stress signal transduction in plants -- Chemical root to shoot signaling via theylem under drought -- Part II: Stress regulation of gene expression: Abiotic stress responses: complexities of gene expression -- promoters and transcription factors in abiotic stress-responsive gene expression -- Epigenetic regulation: Chromatin modeling and small RNAs -- Part III: Physiology and metabolism: Ion homeostasis -- Glutathione homeostasis: crucial for abiotic stress tolerance in plants -- Water balance and the regulation of stomatal movements -- Responses to macronutrient deprivation -- Osmolyte regulation in abiotic stress -- programmed cell death in plant -- Part IV: Overcoming stress: Varietal improvement for abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants: special reference to salinity in rice -- Transgenic approaches -- Marker assisted breeding -- Stress, mutators, mutations and stress resistance -- Systems biology of abiotic stress: the elephant and the blind men -- Global climate change, stress and plant productivity.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Crops, Effect of stress on
Plants, Disease and pest resistance, Genetic aspects