Environmental Physiology
Contents: Preface. From Editor's desk. Contributors. 1. Imaging techniques for physiology of plants under stress/L. Chaerle, R. Valcke and D. Van Der Straeten. 2. Abiotic stresses and different techniques/Vijaylaxmi, A. Bhattacharya and J.D.S. Panwar. 3. Chlorophyll fluorescence as a screening tool in plant breeding/Sergey Shabala and Jiayin Pang. 4. Influence of high temperature on the Photosynthetic apparatus/Katya Georgieva and Enrico Brugnoli. 5. Function of plant hormones and antioxidants in the regulation of plant responses to drought/Leonor Alegre Batlle and Sergi Munne-Bosch. 6. Photosynthetic responses of C3 plants to drought/J. Flexas and H. Medrano. 7. Drought as a multidimensional stress affecting photosynthesis in tropical tree crops/Fabio M. DaMatta. 8. Responses to defoliation of perennial grasses under water stress/C.A. Busso, R.E. Brevedan, A.C. Flemmer and A.I. Bolletta. 9. Biological role and regulation of heat shock proteins/Saroj Dua and Gurpreet Kaur. 10. Molecular, biochemical and ultrastructural responses of plants to UV-B radiation/Isabel Santos and Jose Manuel Almeida. 11. Calcium signalling in oxidative stress/Tracey Ann Cuin. 12. Oxidative stresses in plants and Glutathione/Sheela Agarwal. 13. Ca2+ signalling systems in plants. The cell as the minimum unity for complexity/Rui Malho and Luisa Camacho. 14. Abiotic stress response to symbiotic nitrogen fixation/V.S.G.R. Naidu, J.D.S. Panwar and S.P. Saikia. 15. Recent advances in the physiological and molecular mechanism of Al toxicity and tolerance in higher plants/H. Matsumoto, Y. Yamamoto and B. Ezaki. 16. Aluminium tolerance in Glycine max L.: The physiological mechanism/Hideaki Matsumoto, Zhen Ming Yang, Jiang Feng You and Hai Nian. 17. Soil acidity and alkalinity: two main constraints influencing plant performance/H. Zaid, A. Hemantaranjan, R. Layachi and A. Alem. 18. Salt stress tolerance mechanisms - cellular and molecular responses/Neera Garg and Monika Singhi. 19. Rhizobium - legume symbiosis under salt stress: effects, adaptations and amelioration/Neera Garg, Anu, Geetanjali and Vini Arora. 20. Adaptive strategies for coconut palm under stressful conditions/S. Naresh Kumar, V. Rajagopal and K.V. Kasturi Bai. 21. Fungal Host -- pathogen interaction: attack and defense mechanisms-- a biotechnological approach/Balwant Kumar Singh and R.S. Upadhyay. Subject index.
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