Role of Potassium in Abiotic Stress

This book on potassium in abiotic stress tolerance deals with the ongoing trend in increasing abiotic stresses and interlinked issues food security. As mineral nutrient potassium holds an important place in agriculture and is involved in various physiological and biochemical processes. It takes part in protein synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, enzyme activation, cation-anion balance, osmoregulation, water movement, energy transfer, and regulates stomata and photosynthesis. Potassium plays an important role as abiotic stress buster. This book will deal with potassium relevance to plant functions and adaptations, range of its biological functions, role of potassium in abiotic stress tolerance, analyses of mechanisms responsible for perception and signal transduction of potassium under abiotic stress, critical evaluation of and cross-talks on nutrients and phytohormones signaling pathways under optimal and stressful conditions, and interaction of potassium with other nutrients for abiotic stress tolerance. This book will be of interest to teachers, researchers, scientists working on abiotic stresses. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, and environmental sciences. National and international agricultural scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.

Dr. Noushina Iqbal did her Masters and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and then she worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi (UGC-DS Kothari PDF) and recently she is doing another PDF (SERB-DST NPDF) from Jamia Hamdard as Principal Investigator. During her Ph.D she received the UGC-BSR Fellowship for meritorious student and worked on an UP-CST funded research project. She also got the prestigious Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by CSIR. She has more than 30 peer reviewed international publications and has attended conferences and seminars. She has authored 1 book and edited 3 books. Her research papers have lots of citation and have high impact factor. She is also life member of Indian Society for Plant Physiology. Dr. Noushina is also review editor of Frontier in Plants science section Crop and Product Physiology. Her research interest focuses on but not limited to the role of various phytohormones and nutrients in combating abiotic stress tolerance.

 Prof. Shahid Umar is Prof. and Head Department of Botany, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. He did his M.phil and Ph.D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has 30 years of teaching experience ande has successfully guided 40+ M.Sc. dissertation and supervised 16 thesis and 3 more under progress. He has received the IPI-FAI International Award (2003) instituted by International Potash Institute (IPI) (Basel, Switzerland) and Fertilizer Association of India for the significant contribution towards potassium nutrition management for improvement of crop yield and quality. Felicitation from for fruitful cooperation with IPI during International Symposium on balanced fertilization for sustainable crop productivity (2006) and again in 2009 felicitation from IPI for fruitful cooperation with IPI during International Symposium on balanced fertilization for sustainable crop productivity, (OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Orissa). He has successfully completed 5 research projects as Principal Investigator mainly involving potassium and has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He has edited 8 books and has membership of various bodies.