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Major portion of the planet earth is covered by seas and oceans representing 96.5% of the planet’s water, playing a detrimental role in sustaining the plant including crop diversity and productivity for human consumption. Water resources contain both soluble and transition metals, which are easily absorbed by plants through roots as a first point of contact and subsequently play important physiological and biological functions in plants. Transition metals such as copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) contribute to the plant productivity by playing key functional roles in the photosynthesis. In addition, to their major role in regulating the plant productivity, they also play an important role by acting as homeostatic regulators in uni-parentally inherited chloroplasts and maintains the flow of the electron transfer. It is worthwhile to mention that they play a critical role as transporters, which acts as electron balancing units for managing the electrostatic potential across the membranes. In contrast, some metals such as Cd, As play a significant role in inducing the stress mechanism and influencing either directly or in-directly Haber-Weiss reactions either through the production of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) or through the membrane damage thus leading to leakage of membrane transporters. However, besides playing a detrimental role as transporters in plant system, excessive accumulation of these metals due to the increasing contamination in the marginal soil and water are posing important threats to the plant system. Realizing the toxic effects of the metals, several physiological evidences have been laid for the credence of the metal toxicity and their concurrent effect on plant productivity. Increasing effects of the metals as toxicants can have three adverse effects on the populations: population can move, persist via local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, or die. Next generation sequencing studies have revolutionized our abilities to detect the changes in expression profiles across an array of genes, which can in-turn help to develop early markers of metal induced stress. Plant Metallomics and Functional Omics: A System-Wide Perspective focuses on the applications of the system wide understanding of the biological and functional interplay occurring at the juncture of the metalloid induced stress and toxicity. The main goal of this book is to familiarize the readers with the most up-to-date information on metal-induced physiological changes in plant species. .

Biomedical engineering. --- Metals --- Biotechnology. --- Botany. --- Cytology. --- Chemistry, Organic. --- Plant Sciences. --- Oxidative Stress. --- Organometallic Chemistry. --- Organic chemistry --- Chemistry --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Biology --- Cells --- Cytologists --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Natural history --- Plants --- Plant science. --- Oxidative stress. --- Organometallic chemistry . --- Chemistry, Organometallic --- Metallo-organic chemistry --- Chemistry, Organic --- Oxidation-reduction reaction --- Stress (Physiology) --- Floristic botany

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This work is a compiled catalogue of such findings, where several NGS technologies ranging from the genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, single cell genomics, QTL, patho-genomics and patho-transcriptomics have been applied to delineate the mystery of the associated mutations, biological pathway transitions, transcriptional fluxes and patterns of host associated or adaptations to certain climatic conditions. The aims and scope of this book focuses more on the biological underpinning to initiate the cross-talks across the traits acquired or lost during the course of evolution. The structured framework of the present volume provides the applicative point of view of the NGS technologies and demonstrates the conceptual way of linking the experimentation to the NGS technologies, to aid in researchers to place their biological hypothesis in a larger context.

Life Sciences. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Plant Genetics & Genomics. --- Plant Physiology. --- Life sciences. --- Plant breeding. --- Plant physiology. --- Sciences de la vie --- Plantes --- Physiologie végétale --- Amélioration --- Genetics -- Technique. --- Nucleotide sequence. --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Plant Sciences --- Genetics --- Technique. --- Analysis, Nucleic acid sequence --- Analysis, Nucleotide sequence --- Base sequence (Nucleic acids) --- DNA sequence --- Nucleic acid sequence analysis --- Nucleotide sequence analysis --- RNA sequence --- Sequence, Nucleotide --- Plant genetics. --- Nucleic acids --- Nucleotides --- Sequence alignment (Bioinformatics) --- Analysis --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Botany --- Plants --- Physiology --- Crops --- Breeding