Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress: Sensing, Signaling and Trafficking focuses on the different forms of environmental stressors relating to heavy metal/metalloid and nutrient deficiency and their potential to inflict major damages to crop plant productivity. The book presents the current state of knowledge of the biochemical and molecular regulation of several classes of membrane transporters during different stresses, along with their probable mechanisms of operation in plant stress tolerance. The exhaustive discussion presented in this book will help mitigate multiple forms of stresses by utilizing transporter proteins.
Edited by leading experts and with a global team of contributors, this book will further stimulate research in the field of transporter proteins and foster further interests for researchers, academicians and scientists worldwide.
- Focuses exclusively on the transporter proteins involved in multiple environmental stresses in plants
- Explains exploiting transporters in crop improvement programs through transgenic technology
- Serves as an important source of information in the field of abiotic stress
1. Computational tools and approaches for aquaporin research
2. P-type ATPases heavy metal transporters and metal homeostasis
3. ABC and plant membrane and vacuolar transporters during heavy metal stress
4. Transporters involved in arsenic uptake, translocation and efflux in plants
5. Silicon and selenium transporters in plants
6. Aluminium transporters in plants
7. Silicon transporters in plants
8. Role of transporters (copper, manganese, zinc and nickel) in plants exposed to metal stress conditions
9. Calcium sensing and signaling in plants during metal/metalloid stress
10. Molybdenum and cobalt transporters in plants
11. Metalloid transporters and channels in plants
12. Sugar transporters in plants: Types and their role in abiotic stress
13. Cadmium, iron and boron transporters and their regulation in plants
Prof. (Dr.) Aryadeep Roychoudhury is currently serving as Professor in the Discipline of Life Sciences, School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Before joining IGNOU, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Post Graduate Department of Biotechnology, St. Xaviers College (Autonomous), Kolkata. Prof. Roychoudhury did B.Sc. (Honours) in Botany from Presidency College, Kolkata, and M.Sc. in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from University of Calcutta. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Science from Bose Institute, Kolkata under Jadavpur University in the area of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. He has been associated with the molecular regulation of late embryogenesis abundant genes and the basic leucine zipper group of transcription factors, governing salt tolerance in rice. His post doctoral research was based on translational research on transgenic rice with enhanced salt and drought tolerance. His current research interests include physiological and molecular responses and cell signaling of plants during diverse abiotic stresses including fluoride, heavy metals, salinity and drought. He holds 23 years of research experience in the concerned discipline. Prof. Roychoudhury has handled several government-funded projects on abiotic stress responses in rice and supervised five Ph.D. students as sole principal investigator. To date, he has published over 260 articles in peer- reviewed journals and chapters in books of international and national repute. He has already edited 14 books from reputed publishers and has also guest edited special issues in several renowned international journals. Prof. Roychoudhury is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2019, conferred by the International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, at the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. His name is included in the Stanford Universitys List of Worlds Top 2% Most Influential Scientists Dr. Durgesh Kumar Tripathi is currently an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. He is the recipient of Dr DS Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the UGC, New Delhi. Dr. Tripathi has received his D.Phil. in Science from University of Allahabad, India. During this period, Dr. Tripathi worked extensively on phytolith analysis, crop stress physiology, agro-nanotechnology and molecular biology. He has expertise on laser spectroscopy. His research interests encompass stress tolerance mechanisms in plants. Presently, he is working with nano-materials and their interactions with plants to find out their detoxification mechanisms, he is also working on Silicon, Nitric oxide and hormonal crosstalk against abiotic stress in plants.
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