Table Of ContentShabir Hussain Wani
Manu Pratap Gangola
Bharathi Raja Ramadoss Editors
Compatible Solutes
Engineering for Crop
Plants Facing
Climate Change
Compatible Solutes Engineering for Crop Plants
Facing Climate Change
Shabir Hussain Wani
Manu Pratap Gangola • Bharathi Raja Ramadoss
Editors
Compatible Solutes
Engineering for Crop Plants
Facing Climate Change
Editors
Shabir Hussain Wani Manu Pratap Gangola
Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops Department of Plant Sciences
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural University of Saskatchewan
Sciences and Technology Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Bharathi Raja Ramadoss
Bioriginal Food and Science Corporation
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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This book is dedicated to
Prof. P. B. Kavi Kishor
Prof. P. B. Kavi Kishor completed his
undergraduate and graduate education at
Andhra University and South Gujarat
University. After obtaining his Ph.D. in
botany from the Maharaja Sayaji Rao
University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, he
worked as a postdoctoral fellow and also as
a scientist in the Department of Genetics,
Osmania University, Hyderabad from 1981
till 1984.
He began his academic career in the
Department of Botany, Kakatiya University,
for a short stint of 5 years as assistant and
associate professor and then moved back to
Osmania University, Hyderabad. After
becoming professor of genetics in 1994, he
served the Department of Genetics, Osmania
University, in several capacities. His
teaching and research career spans over 45
years. He worked at the Center for
Biotechnology, Ohio State University, Ohio,
USA, and produced some seminal papers on
proline biosynthetic pathway genes and their
validation in plants. He was a visiting fellow
at several universities, including the
Department of Biochemistry, Emory
University, USA; the Division of
Biotechnology, Linkoping University,
Sweden; and the Leibniz Institute of Plant
Genetics and Crop Plant Research,
Gatersleben, Germany, where he happened
to learn many molecular biological
techniques. His interest lies in the broad
areas of plant physiology and molecular
biology of plants and specifically abiotic
stress tolerance in plants. The seminal paper
he produced on proline biosynthetic pathway
genes and the genes implicated in abiotic
stress tolerance in plants were validated. His
research work resulted in the publication of
as many as 265 papers including book
chapters. Notable among them are two
papers published in Nature Genetics in 2019
on the genomics of peanut and chickpea in
collaboration with Dr. Rajeev Varshney,
ICRISAT, Hyderabad. As an author and
editor of 7 books, he has been engaged in the
services of the academic community. Prof.
Kavi Kishor was a member of the Academic
Senate, Osmania University, and
instrumental in obtaining several grants such
as DBT-BUILDER, DST-INSPIRE, and
UGC- CAS. He supervised or co-supervised
49 Ph.D. theses so far. He is an expert
committee member of UGC, CSIR, DST,
DBT, ICAR, and AICTE.
Prof. Kavi Kishor has been a recipient of
many awards for his teaching and scientific
contributions in the field of plant biology. He
received the Prof. Hiralal Chakravarthy
Award in 1990, Rockefeller Foundation
Fellowship in 1992, Best Teacher Award from
the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Prof.
P. Maheswari Gold Medal, Gold Medal from
the Association of Biotechnology and
Pharmacy, and Life-Time Achievement Gold
Medal from the Association of Biotechnology
and Pharmacy. Other awards include Dr.
Godgil Memorial Lecture and Dr. Diwaker
Patel Memorial Lecture.
He is a fellow of the National Academy of
Sciences, Allahabad (FNASc), Fellow of
National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
(FNAAS), Fellow of the Botanical Society,
Fellow of the Indian Association of
Biotechnology and Pharmacy, Fellow of the
A.P. Akademi of Sciences, and Fellow of the
Telangana Academy of Sciences. Currently
he is working as an emeritus professor at the
Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology
and Research, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
Foreword
Today, sustainable agriculture and global food security are the prime and formida-
ble challenges. Food production will have to be enhanced, and to feed more than 9
billion, estimated population by 2050 at 1.1–1.3% growth per year, immediate mea-
sures are necessary to raise the yield of major crops. One of the major factors limit-
ing crop yield is climate change and ensuing abiotic stresses. This condition may
worsen with dwindling agricultural land, water, and biological resources. It is there-
fore a daunting task for agricultural scientists and plant biologists to understand and
develop tolerant/resistant varieties against different abiotic stresses. In this context,
there is a greater need to utilize knowledge gained through biotechnological and/or
genomic tools to engineer biosynthesis of various abiotic stress responsive biomol-
ecules. Of these, osmolytes with organic chemical nature, termed as compatible
solutes, have a vital role to play in structural, physiological, biochemical, and sig-
naling roles during plant growth and development besides adaptation to various
abiotic stresses. Research in the past several years has established the significant
positive correlation between compatible solutes accumulation and crop yield in
cereal, pulse, and oilseed crops. Bioengineering of osmolytes is now explored
through coordinated regulation of biosynthetic pathways and genetic machinery to
achieve sustainable stress tolerance.
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x Foreword
I am pleased to know that this edited volume entitled Compatible Solutes
Engineering for Crop Plants Facing Climate Change is being published by the
authors. The book includes chapters on various compatible solutes, their sensing/
signaling, biosynthesis, regulatory components, underlying biochemical mecha-
nisms, crosstalk with other signaling pathways, and recent advances in transgenic
development. This is an emerging area of plant biology with considerable scope for
engineering of stress-tolerance traits. The editors of this illustrious book have done
an excellent job by compiling chapters from contributing authors of international
and national repute.
I congratulate the editors for compiling such a book, and I have no doubt that this
will become a valuable knowledge resource for researchers, students, and pol-
icy makers.
Suprasanna Penna
Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai, India
Homi Bhabha National Institute
Mumbai, India
Contents
1 Recent Advances in Plant Adaptation
to Climate Change – An Introduction to Compatible Solutes . . . . . . 1
Muhammad Qudrat Ullah Farooqi, Zahra Zahra,
Muhammad Afzal, and Muhammad Imran Ghani
2 Osmosensing and Signalling in Plants:
Potential Role in Crop Improvement Under Climate Change . . . . . . 11
Deepu Pandita and Shabir Hussain Wani
3 Amino Acids Other Than Proline and Their Participation
in Abiotic Stress Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Showkat Ahmad Ganie
4 Engineering Glycine Betaine Biosynthesis
in Alleviating Abiotic Stress Effects in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Bidisha Bhowal, Prakash Chandra, and Saurabh C. Saxena
5 Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance
by Modulating Polyamine Pathway in Crop Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anshu Alok, Akshay Nag, Jitesh Kumar, Phanikanth Jogam,
Kashmir Singh, and Sudhir P. Singh
6 Engineering Fructan Biosynthesis Against Abiotic Stress . . . . . . . . . 145
Gourav Choudhir and Neeraj K. Vasistha
7 The γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)
Towards Abiotic Stress Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Vikas Srivastava, Sonal Mishra, Aksar Ali Chowdhary,
Skalzang Lhamo, and Shakti Mehrotra
8 Sugar Alcohols and Osmotic Stress Adaptation in Plants . . . . . . . . . . 189
Ramachandra Reddy Pamuru, Chandra Obul Reddy Puli,
Deepu Pandita, and Shabir Hussain Wani
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