Abiotic Stress and Legumes

Abiotic Stress and Legumes: Tolerance and Management is the first book to focus on the ability of legume plants to adapt effectively to environmental challenges. Using the -omic approach, this book takes a targeted approach to understanding the methods and means of ensuring survival and maximizing the productivity of the legume plant by improving tolerance to environmental /abiotic stress factors including drought, temperature change, and other challenges.The book presents a comprehensive overview of the progress that has been made in identifying means of managing abiotic stress effects, specifically in legumes, including the development of several varieties which exhibit tolerance through high yield using transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic and ionomic approaches. Further, exogenous application of various stimulants such as plant hormones, nutrients, sugars, and polyamines has emerged as an alternative strategy to improve productivity under these environmental challenges.Abiotic Stress and Legumes: Tolerance and Management examines these emerging strategies and serves as an important resource for researchers, academicians and scientists, enhancing their knowledge and aiding further research.
- Explores the progress made in managing abiotic stress, specifically with high yield legumes
- Highlights the molecular mechanisms related to acclimation
- Presents proven strategies and emerging approaches to guide additional research

1. Exploiting the potential of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Legume Production 2. Nod factor signaling in legume-Rhizobium symbiosis: specificity and molecular genetics of nod factor signaling 3. The Importance of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Plant Productivity 4. Modulations of legume plants in response to heavy metals induced stress 5. Role of sugars in mediating abiotic stress tolerance in legumes 6. Circadian regulation of abiotic stress tolerance in legumes 7. Polyamines: A Promising Strategy for Imparting Salinity Stress Tolerance in Legumes 8. PHYTOHORMONAL SIGNALING UNDER ABIOTIC STRESS IN LEGUMES 9. Unsnarling the Role of Melatonin as Abiotic Stress Managers in Legumes 10. Role of ROS in the regulation of Abiotic Stress tolerance in Legumes 11. Role of Metabolites in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Legumes 12. Quorum sensing signaling molecules and their inhibitors in legume-associated bacteria 13. Plant Genes for Abiotic Stress in Legumes 14. MicroRNAs and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Legumes 15. QTL mapping for abiotic stress in legumes 16. Genetic Engineering of Legumes for Abiotic Stress Tolerance