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Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Toward the Improvement of Global Environment and Food [Hardcover]

Ashwani K. Rai (Editor), Teruhiro Takabe (Editor)

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March 10, 2006
A state-of-the-art guide to recent developments in the understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses. Each chapter reflects how new techniques have helped physiologists, biochemists and molecular biologists to understand the basic problems of abiotic stress in plant species. The book supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that illustrate the research findings.

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非生物的ストレスに対する植物の応答に関する最新の研究成果を一冊に纏めた本.本書は9章から成っており、各章のテーマは次のようになっている:
情報伝達、温度ストレス、酸化的ストレス、ファイトレメディエーション、浸透圧ストレス、イオン恒常性、栄養素、構造応答、遺伝的多様性とバイオテクノロジーの進展.
各章の執筆は当該分野の一流専門家が手がけており、研究アプローチの進展が忠実に語られている.本書は図解により研究知見をわかりやすく紹介し、各分野における今後の重要な課題を提示している.章末には豊富な参考文献情報を掲載.また、生理学、生化学、分子生物学の分野において、植物種の非生物的ストレスに関わる基本的な問題を解明するために新しい技術がどのように生み出されてきたかを把握することができる.数々の面において役立つ参考文献として、植物学や植物環境ストレス学、農学、植物生理学、細胞生物学、分子生物学などの分野を学ぶ学生や、これらの分野に携わる研究者に、産学を問わずお薦め.
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From the reviews: "This textbook aims to present a state of the art description of the physiological, biochemical and molecular status of the understanding of abiotic stress in plants and the application of biotechnology to crop and environmental improvement. … could serve postgraduates, academics and researchers alike as a reference to the current state of … the research in the field of abiotic stress of plants." (Mick Fuller, Experimental Agriculture, Vol. 43, 2007)

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