Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Plants
Mechanisms and Management Strategies
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Koushik Chakraborty, Md. Hasanuzzaman, Debarati Bhaduri, Somnath Roy, Honghong Wu
- Language: English
Driven by the realities of global climate change, compound stress events—such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and flooding—now frequently affect crops within a si… Read more
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Description
Description
Driven by the realities of global climate change, compound stress events—such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and flooding—now frequently affect crops within a single season, posing significant risks to global food security and agricultural sustainability. Multiple Abiotic Stresses in Plants: Mechanisms and Management Strategies examines how plants coordinate distinct physiological, biochemical, and molecular pathways to adapt under complex stress conditions, contrasting these mechanisms with those triggered by individual stress factors.
Chapters cover key processes including redox regulation, hormonal signaling, transcriptional control, ion transport, and metabolic adjustments. The volume also highlights advances in breeding and biotechnology—from marker-assisted selection and genome editing to nanotechnology and multi-omics approaches—alongside practical strategies for improved stress management, such as optimized nutrient use, microbial interventions, and climate-adaptive agronomy.
Comprehensive in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this reference book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, plant scientists, and agricultural professionals by offering the strategic insight needed to anticipate, rather than react to, the evolving challenges of plant–environment interactions.
Chapters cover key processes including redox regulation, hormonal signaling, transcriptional control, ion transport, and metabolic adjustments. The volume also highlights advances in breeding and biotechnology—from marker-assisted selection and genome editing to nanotechnology and multi-omics approaches—alongside practical strategies for improved stress management, such as optimized nutrient use, microbial interventions, and climate-adaptive agronomy.
Comprehensive in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this reference book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, plant scientists, and agricultural professionals by offering the strategic insight needed to anticipate, rather than react to, the evolving challenges of plant–environment interactions.
Key features
Key features
- Explores adaptive changes in plant structure and anatomy under combined stress conditions, enabling readers to link morphological traits with functional outcomes in real-world crop systems
- Demonstrates how nutrient dynamics, soil amendments, and beneficial elements contribute to stress alleviation, elucidating actionable pathways for improving plant performance under multiple stress conditions
- Highlights the integration of Internet of Things–enabled sensor networks for early detection and mitigation of multiple abiotic stresses in plants
Readership
Readership
Scientists, researchers, and academics in plant science. Scientists, researchers, and academics in agriculture and crop sciences.
Table of contents
Table of contents
SECTION A. Multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants: A global climate change perspective
1. Incidence of multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants and their implications for global food security
2. Plant genetic resources and their potential use to combat multiple abiotic stresses
SECTION B. Physiological and molecular bases of multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3. Morphological, biochemical, and anatomical adaptations of plants to multiple abiotic stresses
4. Photosynthetic and stomatal regulation to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
5. Plant signaling and signal transduction cascades in response to multiple abiotic stresses
6. Regulatory networks and redox homeostasis in plant responses to multiple abiotic stresses
7. Modulation of ion transport and uptake dynamics in plants under multiple abiotic stresses
8. Transcription factors and their role in multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
9. Role of phytohormones and plant growth regulators in multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
10. Secondary metabolites, metallothioneins, and phytochelatins in combating multiple abiotic stresses in plants
SECTION C. Approaches for improving multiple stress tolerance in plants
11. Conventional and marker-assisted breeding approaches to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
12. Genomic breeding empowered by next-generation sequencing and generative artificial intelligence for multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
13. Role of phenomics and precision phenotyping in breeding strategies to develop multiple abiotic stress-tolerant crops
14. Use of nanobiotechnology to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
15. Transgenic and genome editing-based approaches for improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
16. Multiomics-based approaches for developing multiple abiotic stress-tolerant crops
SECTION D. Management strategies to overcome multiple abiotic stresses in plants
17. Management of multiple abiotic stresses through improved agronomic practices
18. Adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate multiple abiotic stresses in crops
19. Alleviation of multiple abiotic stresses by improving macro- and micronutrient management
20. Role of beneficial elements in mediating tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
21. Role of soil amendments in improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
22. Importance of beneficial microbes in improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance of plants: special reference to plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
23. Detection and monitoring of abiotic stresses in crops: recent technological applications
1. Incidence of multiple abiotic stresses in crop plants and their implications for global food security
2. Plant genetic resources and their potential use to combat multiple abiotic stresses
SECTION B. Physiological and molecular bases of multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
3. Morphological, biochemical, and anatomical adaptations of plants to multiple abiotic stresses
4. Photosynthetic and stomatal regulation to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
5. Plant signaling and signal transduction cascades in response to multiple abiotic stresses
6. Regulatory networks and redox homeostasis in plant responses to multiple abiotic stresses
7. Modulation of ion transport and uptake dynamics in plants under multiple abiotic stresses
8. Transcription factors and their role in multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
9. Role of phytohormones and plant growth regulators in multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
10. Secondary metabolites, metallothioneins, and phytochelatins in combating multiple abiotic stresses in plants
SECTION C. Approaches for improving multiple stress tolerance in plants
11. Conventional and marker-assisted breeding approaches to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
12. Genomic breeding empowered by next-generation sequencing and generative artificial intelligence for multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
13. Role of phenomics and precision phenotyping in breeding strategies to develop multiple abiotic stress-tolerant crops
14. Use of nanobiotechnology to improve multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
15. Transgenic and genome editing-based approaches for improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
16. Multiomics-based approaches for developing multiple abiotic stress-tolerant crops
SECTION D. Management strategies to overcome multiple abiotic stresses in plants
17. Management of multiple abiotic stresses through improved agronomic practices
18. Adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate multiple abiotic stresses in crops
19. Alleviation of multiple abiotic stresses by improving macro- and micronutrient management
20. Role of beneficial elements in mediating tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses in plants
21. Role of soil amendments in improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance in plants
22. Importance of beneficial microbes in improving multiple abiotic stress tolerance of plants: special reference to plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
23. Detection and monitoring of abiotic stresses in crops: recent technological applications
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: August 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Koushik Chakraborty
Dr. Koushik Chakraborty is a senior scientist at the Division of Crop Physiology and Biochemistry, ICAR–Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, in India. His areas of specialization is are in abiotic stress physiology (salinity, submergence & waterlogging), molecular plant physiology (salinity tolerance mechanism, oxidative stress tolerance), membrane ion transport, and electro-physiology. He has served as a reviewer for international scientific journals, and has published over 56 scientific papers, authored/edited five books, and 27 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Division of Crop Physiology and Biochemistry, ICAR–Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, IndiaMH
Md. Hasanuzzaman
Professor in the Department of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. My research areas include Plant Stress Physiology and Agronomy. I am interested in the physiological, morphological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms of different biotic (virus, fungus) and abiotic stress tolerance (salinity, drought, waterlogged, heavy metals) on crops.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, BangladeshDB
Debarati Bhaduri
Debarati Bhaduri is a senior scientist at ICAR–Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, India. A soil scientist, she has made significant contributions in quantifying soil quality by integrating soil physical-chemical-biological indicators under long-term rice-wheat system of Indo-Gangetic plain. She has proposed an alternate management of crop residues to subside burning and mitigate climate change. Her other research focuses on alteration in agronomic management for submergence tolerance in rice, optimization of agrochemicals’ doses for sustaining soil ecological health, refinement of management options for saline coastal soil with nutrient balances in soil and plants, and intervention of new-generation management to improve NUE and WUE.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Division of Crop Production, ICAR–Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, IndiaSR
Somnath Roy
Somnath Roy is a senior scientist at the Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Hazaribag, in India. His research focuses on rice breeding, plant genetic resource management, population genetics, and natural genetic variation for abiotic stress tolerance. He has published over 56 papers in international scientific journals, authored/edited one book, and 10 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, ICAR–Central Rice Research Institute, Hazaribag, IndiaHW
Honghong Wu
Honghong Wu is a professor at Huazhong Agricultural University, China. He specializes in nano-enabled agriculture, nanozymes, nanosensors, nano-systems to deliver biomolecules, plant salt tolerance mechanisms, photosynthesis, ion transport across membrane, ROS homeostasis. Dr. Wu has served as editor and reviewer for internationally renowned journals, and has published over 50 articles.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China