Overview
Provides a comprehensive overview of the role of nanobiotechnology in understanding stress physiology and developing abiotic stress tolerant crops
Presents cutting-edge knowledge on abiotic stress factors including drought, salinity, waterlog, temperature extremes, mineral nutrients, and heavy metals
Covers current knowledge and future prospects of nanobiotechnology to achieve sustainable agriculture and enhanced food security under climate change
Focuses on emerging topics like signaling molecule, oxidative stress, and reactive species
Exhibits chapters authored by an assemblage of internationally reputable scientists reflecting their own experience and globally available relevant literature
Illustrates concepts with high-quality color figures and supported with tabulated data
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About this book
This book provides up-to-date knowledge of the promising field of Nanobiotechnology with emphasis on the mitigation approaches to combat plant abiotic stress factors, including drought, salinity, waterlog, temperature extremes, mineral nutrients, and heavy metals. These factors adversely affect the growth as well as yield of crop plants worldwide, especially under the global climate change. Nanobiotechnology is viewed to revolutionize crop productivity in future.
The chapters discuss the status and prospects of this cutting-edge technology toward understanding tolerance mechanisms, including signaling molecules and enzymes regulation in addition to the applications of Nanobiotechnology to combat individual abiotic stress factors.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jameel M. Al-Khayri is Professor of plant biotechnology at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He obtained B.S. in Biology in 1984 from the University of Toledo, M.S. in Agronomy in 1988, and Ph.D. in Plant Science in 1991 from the University of Arkansas, USA. He dedicated his research efforts to date palm biotechnology for the last three decades. He published over 60 research articles and reviews in international journals in addition to 30 book chapters. He is Editor of several special issues of international journal on date palm, biotechnology, and sustainable agriculture under abiotic and biotic stress. He is Editor of 15 Springer reference books including Date Palm Biotechnology, Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization (2 volumes), Date Palm Biotechnology Protocols (2 volumes), and Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies (9 volumes). He is appointed as Member of the editorial board and reviewers panel in several international journals. He is participated in the organizing and scientific committees of international scientific conferences and contributed over fifty research presentations. In addition to teaching, graduate students advising and conducting funded research projects, he held administrative posts as Assistant Director of Date Palm Research Center, Head of Department of Plant Biotechnology, and Vice Dean for Development and Quality Assurance. He is Active Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science and Society for In Vitro Biology and serving as the National Correspondent of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology. He serves as Member of Majlis Ash Shura (Saudi Arabia Legislative Council) Fifth Session. Currently, he is maintaining an active research program on date palm focusing on genetic transformation, secondary metabolites, and in vitro mutagenesis to enhance tolerance to abiotic and biotic stress.
Dr. Mohammad Israil Ansari is Professor at Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, India. Before joining University of Lucknow, he was Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Lucknow Campus, Lucknow (2007–2016). He has been graduated and post-graduated from Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and doctoral degree from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad, India. He is Academia Sinica Fellow from Government of Taiwan. He has more than 26 years of research and 15 years of teaching experience with more than 70 research papers, several books, book chapter, review articles, Ph.D., post-graduate summer projects as well as funded research projects to his credit. He has been associated with Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; and Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2000–2007). He has made significant contributions in the field of Molecular Biology of Leaf Senescence, Dehydration Stress, Red Rot Disease of Sugarcane, and Nanotechnology. Presently, he is working on GABA-Transaminase gene that plays a very important role in leaf senescence process and role of nanotechnology in plant stress conditions. He is Editorial Board Member of several international journals as well as Member of several academic board/faculty board/board of studies/research and development bodies. He has delivered several invited lecture at national and international level.
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. He has more than 12 years of teaching and multidisciplinary research experience in microbial physiology and industrial biotechnology. His research focus is on polyhydroxyalkanoate bioplastic production, metallic nanobiotechnology, nitric oxide signaling, and biofuel production. Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and food engineering and an M.Tech. in agricultural biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, with a master’s degree in biotechnology from IIT, Roorkee, India. He has qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Life Science conducted by IIT Kanpur on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. He was also awarded prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-University Grants Commission (UGC) Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR-UGC JRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. He has 16 research papers and 02 review articles in referred international and national journals, resectively; 08 review articles in referred international journals and 18 book chapters. Dr. Singh has supervised Ph.D., M.Tech., M.Sc. and B.Tech. students.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanobiotechnology
Book Subtitle: Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Plants
Editors: Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Mohammad Israil Ansari, Akhilesh Kumar Singh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73606-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73605-7Published: 23 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73608-8Published: 24 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73606-4Published: 22 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 590
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Agriculture