TY - BOOK ID - 134920799 TI - Abiotic Stress : molecular genetics and genomics AU - Mukesh Jain AU - Jain, Mukesh Kumar AU - Garg, Rohini AU - Varshney, R. K. AU - Frontiers Research Foundation PY - 2014 PB - Frontiers Media SA DB - UniCat KW - Molecular genetics. KW - Plants, Cultivated KW - Botany KW - Botany, Economic. KW - Crops, Agricultural KW - Genetics. KW - Molecular aspects. KW - microbiology. KW - molecular genetics KW - signal transduction KW - transcriptional regulatory network KW - functional genomics KW - virus-induced gene silencing KW - abiotic stress UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134920799 AB - Abiotic stresses are the major cause that limits productivity of crop plants worldwide. Plants have developed intricate machinery to respond and adapt over these adverse environmental conditions both at physiological and molecular levels. Due to increasing problems of abiotic stresses, plant biotechnologists and breeders need to employ new approaches to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. Although current research has divulged several key genes, gene regulatory networks and quantitative trait loci that mediate plant responses to various abiotic stresses, the comprehensive understanding of this complex trait is still not available. This topic is focused on molecular genetics and genomics approaches to understand the plant response/adaptation to various abiotic stresses. We welcome all types of articles (original research, method, opinion and review) that provide new insights into different aspects of plant responses and adaptation to abiotic stresses. Articles describing genome analysis to identify key candidate genes, regulatory network analysis, epigenetic regulation, discovery of novel genetic variations, QTL identification using linkage mapping and association mapping approaches, genetic engineering, molecular breeding and novel approaches for understanding and manipulation of abiotic stress response, are welcome. ER -