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Flavonoids for Plant Development and Stress Tolerance

  • 1st Edition - December 2, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Praveen Guleria, Vineet Kumar, Parissa Taheri
  • Language: English

Flavonoids for Plant Development and Stress Tolerance presents the latest information on the genetic and molecular networks induced by flavonoids that regulate plant and microb… Read more

Description

Flavonoids for Plant Development and Stress Tolerance presents the latest information on the genetic and molecular networks induced by flavonoids that regulate plant and microbe interactions. Covering recent studies, innovations, and future perspectives on flavonoid metabolism, this book explores their role in modulating plant responses to environmental changes, providing valuable insights for current applications and future research directions.

Flavonoids are important secondary metabolites synthesized in plants, known for their antioxidant properties and their role in scavenging oxidative stress markers. While extensively studied in model plants, research on flavonoids in other species remains limited. To fully understand the mechanisms involved in various plant growth phases, it is essential to identify and characterize different flavonoids and their types.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the diversity of flavonoids, their significance for food security, and the underlying molecular and biochemical mechanisms. It includes detailed descriptions of flavonoid biosynthesis, their functional diversity, and their involvement in plant responses to global climate change. Additionally, the book discusses flavonoid engineering, its status, and its potential to support agricultural sustainability.

Focusing on the molecular and biochemical pathways responsible for flavonoid-mediated stress responses, this valuable reference resource aims to deepen understanding of both foundational concepts and recent advancements in flavonoid engineering—ultimately contributing to the survival, productivity, and sustainability of plants under changing environmental conditions.

Key features

  • Offers a foundational overview of flavonoids and their significance.
  • Highlights the role of flavonoids in plant development and stress responses.
  • Examines the application of biotechnology in advancing flavonoid research and its potential benefits.

Readership

Primary: Researchers and advanced students in crop science, plant science, agricultural sustainability.
Secondary: Researchers and advanced students in food security; policy makers; industry experts

Table of contents

Section 1: Introduction to flavonoids

1. Flavonoids in plants: diversity, importance, and applications

2. Flavonoid biosynthesis: characterization of genes and transcription factors in model and other plant types

3. Epigenetic regulation of flavonoid metabolism

4. Phytohormonal regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis and associated stress tolerance in plants

Section 2: Flavonoids in plant development and stress responses

5. Emerging role of flavonoids in plant signaling pathways

6. Flavonoids as regulators of plant germination, vegetative growth, and development

7. Regulation of plant reproductive growth, flowering, and yield by flavonoids

8. Flavonoids as signals for plant-beneficial microbe interactions

9. Flavonoids regulating plant responses against various abiotic stresses

10. Flavonoids for light and UV stress regulation

11. Flavonoids for salt stress regulation

12. Role of flavonoids in plant heat stress regulation

13. Understanding the potential of flavonoids in the regulation of drought stress in plants

14. Plant-pathogenic interaction: flavonoid internetworking

15. Flavonoid crosstalks for overall plant development and environmental responses: understanding biochemistry and molecular biology in plants

Section 3: Role of biotechnology in flavonoid research

16. Advances in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway through advanced biotechnological tools

17. Scope of plant metabolic engineering of the flavonoid pathway for crop sustainability

18. Scope of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria-mediated regulation of plant flavonoids in various stress responses

19. miRNA and flavonoid regulation in and across the plant kingdom

20. Engineering the flavonoid pathway to regulate plant responses to climate change

21. Flavonoid engineering for crop quality improvement and enhanced human health benefits

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 9, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

PG

Praveen Guleria

Praveen Guleria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She has worked in the areas of Plant Biotechnology, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Plant Stress Biology at CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India. Her research interests include plant stress biology, plant small RNA Biology, plant epigenomics and nanotoxicity. She has published several research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. She is also serving as the editorial board member and reviewer for certain international peer reviewed journals. She has been awarded the SERB- Start Up Grant by DST, GOI. She has also been awarded the prestigious “Bharat Gaurav Award” by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi. She has also received various awards like CSIR/ ICMR- Junior research Fellowship, CSIR- Senior research fellowship, State level merit scholarship awards.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Plant Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Lab, Department of Biotechnology, DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

VK

Vineet Kumar

Dr. Vineet Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Lovely Professional University, India. He has extensive experience in various areas of biotechnology and nanotechnology, having worked at several prestigious institutes and universities in India, including Panjab University Chandigarh, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, and Himachal Pradesh University.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

PT

Parissa Taheri

Prof. Parissa Taheri is a Plant Pathologist, Mycologist, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. Her research focuses on plant pathology; fungal taxonomy and virulence factors, systematics and population genetics of phytopathogenic fungi; molecular plant-microbe interactions; plant defense signaling pathways; cytomolecular and biochemical aspects of plant resistance; redox biology and signaling in plant defense to biotic and abiotic stresses, identification and application of biocontrol agents or bioactive natural products with antifungal effects; and mechanisms of biological control and plant growth promotion via beneficial fungi. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal “Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology”, and Managing Guest Editor of the special issue “Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture”. She is editor of other international journals, such as Frontiers in Plant Science and Rhizosphere. She is Managing Guest Editor of the special issue entitled “Natural Plant Protectants against Pathogens and Pests”, published in a new Elsevier journal “Journal of Natural Pesticide Research”.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

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