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Shows how we can contribute to conserving water, our most precious resource, in our home and garden.

Drought-tolerant plants. --- Landscape gardening. --- Water conservation. --- Environmental Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Landscape gardening --- Water conservation --- Citizen participation.

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Drought is one of the most severe constraints to crop productivity worldwide, and thus it has become a major concern for global food security. Due to an increasing world population, droughts could lead to serious food shortages by 2050. The situation may worsen due to predicated climatic changes that may increase the frequency, duration and severity of droughts. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of the complex mechanisms associated with drought tolerance and to develop modern crop varieties that are more resilient to drought. Identification of the genes responsible for drought tolerance in plants will contribute to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that could enable crop plants to respond to drought. The discovery of novel drought related genes, the analysis of their expression patterns in response to drought, and determination of the functions these genes play in drought adaptation will provide a base to develop effective strategies to enhance the drought tolerance of crop plants. Plant breeding efforts to increase crop yields in dry environments have been slow to date mainly due to our poor understanding of the molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in how plants respond to drought. In addition, when it comes to combining favourable alleles, there are practical obstacles to developing superior high yielding genotypes fit for drought prone environments. Drought Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2: Molecular and Genetic Perspectives combines novel topical findings, regarding the major molecular and genetic events associated with drought tolerance, with contemporary crop improvement approaches. This volume is unique as it makes available for its readers not only extensive reports of existing facts and data, but also practical knowledge and overviews of state-of-the-art technologies, across the biological fields, from plant breeding using classical and molecular genetic information, to the modern omic technologies, that are now being used in drought tolerance research to breed drought-related traits into modern crop varieties. This book is useful for teachers and researchers in the fields of plant breeding, molecular biology and biotechnology.

Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Plant genetics. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Genetics & Genomics. --- Plants --- Drought tolerance. --- Drought resistance of plants --- Drought tolerance of plants --- Drought resistance --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Genetics --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Drought-tolerant plants --- Hardiness --- Effect of drought on --- Plant Genetics and Genomics.

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Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plant species. In this volume renowned experts treat plant desiccation tolerance at the organismic as well as at the cellular level. The diversity of ecophysiological adaptations and acclimations of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae, mosses, and lichens is addressed in several chapters. The particular problems of vascular plants during dehydration/rehydration cycles resulting not only from their hydraulic architectures, but also from severe secondary stresses associated with the desiccated state are discussed. Based on the treatment of desiccation tolerance at the organismic level, a second section of the book is devoted to the cell biological level. It delineates the general concepts of functional genomics, epigenetics, genetics, molecular biology and the sensing and signalling networks of systems biology involved in dehydration/rehydration cycles. This book provides an invaluable compilation of current knowledge, which is a prerequisite for a better understanding of plant desiccation tolerance in natural as well as agro- and forest ecosystems where water is one of the most essential resources.

Drought-tolerant plants. --- Plants -- Adaptation. --- Plants -- Drought tolerance. --- Plant-water relationships. --- Plant-water relationships --- Plants --- Drought-tolerant plants --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plant Ecology --- Plant Physiology --- Drought tolerance --- Adaptation --- Drought tolerance. --- Drought resistance of plants --- Drought tolerance of plants --- Plants and water --- Water and plants --- Water-plant relationships --- Drought resistance --- Life sciences. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant development. --- Plant genetics. --- Plant physiology. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Genetics & Genomics. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Soil moisture --- Hardiness --- Effect of drought on --- Biochemistry. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Genetics --- Physiology --- Ecology --- Structure --- Composition --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Ontogeny --- Floristic ecology --- Botanical chemistry. --- Plant Genetics. --- Plant Development. --- Development.

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Abiotic stress adversely affects crop production worldwide, decreasing average yields for most of the crops to 50%. Among various abiotic stresses affecting agricultural production, drought stress is considered to be the main source of yield reduction around the globe. Due to an increasing world population, drought stress will lead to a serious food shortage by 2050. The situation may become worse due to predicated global climate change that may multiply the frequency and duration and severity of such abiotic stresses. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding on complex mechanisms of drought stress tolerance and to develop modern varieties that are more resilient to drought stress. Identification of the potential novel genes responsible for drought tolerance in crop plants will contribute to understanding the molecular mechanism of crop responses to drought stress. The discovery of novel genes, the analysis of their expression patterns in response to drought stress, and the determination of their potential functions in drought stress adaptation will provide the basis of effective engineering strategies to enhance crop drought stress tolerance. Although the in-depth water stress tolerance mechanisms is still unclear, it can be to some extent explained on the basis of ion homeostasis mediated by stress adaptation effectors, toxic radical scavenging, osmolyte biosynthesis, water transport, and long distance signaling response coordination. Importantly, complete elucidation of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms for drought stress, perception, transduction, and tolerance is still a challenge to the plant biologists. The findings presented in volume 1 call attention to the physiological and biochemical modalities of drought stress that influence crop productivity, whereas volume 2 summarizes our current understanding on the molecular and genetic mechanisms of drought stress resistance in plants.

Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant physiology. --- Plant breeding. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Plants --- Drought tolerance. --- Effect of drought on. --- Plants, Effect of drought on --- Drought resistance of plants --- Drought tolerance of plants --- Drought resistance --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Botany --- Physiology --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Droughts --- Drought-tolerant plants --- Drought tolerance --- Hardiness --- Effect of drought on --- Biochemistry. --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition

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This book presents various aspects of salt and drought stress signaling in crops, combining physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies. Salt and drought stress are two major constraints on crop production worldwide. Plants possess several mechanisms to cope with the adverse effects of salt and drought. Among these mechanisms, stress signaling is very important, because it integrates and regulates nuclear gene expression and other cellular activities, which can help to restore cellular homeostasis. Accordingly, understanding the signaling cascades will help plant biologists to grasp the tolerance mechanisms that allow breeders to develop tolerant crop varieties. This book is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students working on salt and drought stress physiology and plant breeding. .

Plant physiology. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Agriculture. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant breeding. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Physiology --- Drought resistance of plants --- Drought tolerance of plants --- Drought-tolerant plants --- Plants, Effect of salt on --- Salt --- Effect of salt on. --- Drought tolerance. --- Drought resistance --- Hardiness --- Effect of drought on --- Effect of salts on --- Physiological effect --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology --- Agricultura --- Sequeres --- Sòls salins --- Salinitat dels sòls --- Composició dels sòls --- Salinitat --- Secades --- Sequera --- Temps (Meteorologia) --- Pluja --- Agronomia --- Ciències de la vida --- Agricultura biològica --- Agricultura de muntanya --- Agricultura de precisió --- Agricultura de subsistència --- Agricultura sostenible --- Agricultura urbana --- Agrosilvicultura --- Aqüicultura --- Arbres --- Boscos --- Climatologia agrícola --- Conreu --- Conreus de regadiu --- Conreus extensius --- Dones en l'agricultura --- Extensió agrària --- Floricultura --- Indústria agrícola --- Indústria ramadera --- Investigació agrícola --- Jardineria --- Millorament selectiu de plantes --- Pagesia --- Pastures --- Productes agrícoles --- Protecció de les plantes --- Revolució verda --- Silvicultura --- Zootècnia --- Història de l'agricultura --- Pagesos --- Ramaderia --- Botanical chemistry. --- Plant biotechnology. --- Plant Biotechnology. --- Crop biotechnology --- Agricultural biotechnology --- Biotechnology --- Agricultura.