The Role of Growth Regulators and Phytohormones in Overcoming Environmental Stress - Softcover

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Anket Sharma is currently working as a Visiting Research Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park, USA & as an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, China. Dr. Sharma has more than 100 research articles to his credit. Dr. Sharma Completed his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.

Renu Bhardwaj is a Professor in Botanical and Environmental Sciences at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar, Punjab, India.

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Tripathi is currently an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. He is the recipient of ‘Dr DS Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowship’ of the UGC, New Delhi. Dr. Tripathi has received his D.Phil. in Science from University of Allahabad, India. During this period, Dr. Tripathi worked extensively on phytolith analysis, crop stress physiology, agro-nanotechnology and molecular biology. He has expertise on laser spectroscopy. His research interests encompass stress tolerance mechanisms in plants. Presently, he is working with nano-materials and their interactions with plants to find out their detoxification mechanisms, he is also working on Silicon, Nitric oxide and hormonal crosstalk against abiotic stress in plants.

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In the present era, plants are facing a lot of challenges during their life cycle and one of the major threats for their growth is abiotic stress. The main abiotic stresses threatening plants are water scarcity, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metals and pesticides. These stresses directly or indirectly cause toxicity to plants, causing hindrance to their growth and development, and ultimately reduce plant productivity. In the last two decades, researchers have explored a lot about the roles of plant growth regulators (PGRs) in boosting up the resistance of plants under stress conditions. These PGRs acts as stimulators for various physiological processes by regulating key cell signalling pathways.

The Role of Growth Regulators and Phytohormones in Overcoming Environmental Stress is a comprehensive resource, providing coverage on all major PGRs. These include auxins, cytokinins, jasmonates, polyammines, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and more. This title is an essential read for any scientist wanting to understand the latest advances in combatting abiotic stresses using plant growth regulators.