Table Of ContentEMERGING TRENDS OF
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
FOR SUSTAINABLE
CROP PRODUCTION
EMERGING TRENDS OF
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
FOR SUSTAINABLE
CROP PRODUCTION
Edited By
Zafar Abbas, PhD
Ajay Kumar Tiwari, PhD
Pradeep Kumar, PhD
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CONTENTS
About the Editors........................................................................................vii
List of Contributors .....................................................................................xi
List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................xv
Preface ......................................................................................................xix
1. Potato Physiology in Relation to Crop Yield ...........................................1
Brajesh Singh, Maharishi Tomar, Som Dutt, Pinky Raigond,
and B. P. Singh
2. Phytochrome: Physiology, Molecular Aspects, and
Sustainable Crop Production ..................................................................25
Bandana Bose, Bhawna Pant, Rajesh K. Singhal, Mahesh Kumar,
and Sananda Mondal
3. Signal Transduction in Plants with Response to Heavy Metals
Toxicity: An Overview ............................................................................49
Prasann Kumar
4. Vegetable Oil and Its Significance in Sustainable Development ..........69
A. Hasnat
5. Sucrose Non-Fermenting-1 Related Kinase 1 (SnRK1):
A Key Player of Plant Signal Transduction ...........................................87
Bhavin S. Bhatt, Fenisha D. Chahwala, B. Singh, and Achuit K. Singh
6. B-Vitamins in Relation to Sustainable Crop Productivity
in Crop Plants .........................................................................................101
Anoop Kumar, Dildar Husain, Jagjeet Singh, Satya Pal Verma,
and Zafar Abbas
7. Mechanisms of Metalloid Uptake, Transport, Toxicity, and
Tolerance in Plants .................................................................................167
Pallavi Sharma, Vineet Srivastava, Amit Kumar Gautam,
Anisha Rupashree, Rajani Singh, Sanchita Abhijita, Satish Kumar,
Ambuj Bhushan Jha, and Amarendra N. Misra
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8. Morpho-Physiological Responses of Wheat Genotypes
Under High Temperature Stress ...........................................................223
Sharad K. Dwivedi, Santosh Kumar, and K. K. Rao
9. Control of MicroRNA Biogenesis and Action in Plants ......................241
Mohd. Zahid Rizvi
10. Mineral Nutrition in Plants and Its Management in Soil ...................281
Aneg Singh and A. K. Tiwari
11. Supermolecular Organization of Photosynthetic Complexes
in Arabidopsis .........................................................................................297
Mohammed Sabar, Alexandre Maréchal, David Joly,
Sridharan Govindachary, Eric Bonneil, Pierre Thibaut,
Robert Carpentier, and Normand Brisson
12. Methods to Improve Germination in Sugarcane .................................331
S. P. Singh, Priyanka Singh, and B. L. Sharma
13. Secondary Metabolites: The Plant Physiological Tale of
Stress Response .......................................................................................345
R. K. Upadhyay
14. Effect of Wastewater Irrigation on Crop Health in the Indian
Agricultural Scenario.............................................................................357
Abhijit Sarkar, Sujit Das, Vaibhav Srivastava, Pooja Singh,
and Rajeev Pratap Singh
Index .........................................................................................................373
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Zafar Abbas, PhD
Senior Associate Professor and Chairman,
P. G. Department of Botany, G. F. College
(M. J. P. Rohilkhand University), Shahjahanpur,
Uttar Pradesh, India
Zafar Abbas, PhD, is a Senior Associate Professor
and Chairman in the P. G. Department of Botany at G. F. College (M. J.
P. Rohilkhand University) in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has
40 years of research experience in plant and crop physiology, with a spe-
cialization in plant nutrition. He has attended several national and inter-
national seminars and conferences. At present, eight PhD students have
completed their doctorate degrees under his supervision. Dr. Abbas is a
life member and member of editorial boards of several Indian and foreign
journals and societies, and he has authored a book and has published over
30 articles.
Ajay Kumar Tiwari, PhD
Scientific Officer, UP Council of Sugarcane Research,
Shahjahnapur, UP, India
Ajay K. Tiwari, PhD, is a Scientific Officer at the UP
Council of Sugarcane Research, Shahjahnapur, UP,
India. He has published 70 research articles, nine
review articles in national and international jour-
nals, several book chapters in edited books, has also
authored of several edited books published by Springer, Taylor and Fran-
cis and others. He has submitted more than 150 nucleotide sequences of
plant pathogens to GenBank. He is a regular reviewer of many interna-
tional journals as well as an editorial board member. He is the Managing
Editor of the journal Sugar Tech and Chief Editor of the journal Agrica.
viii About the Editors
He has received several young researcher awards and was nominated for
the Narshiman Award by the Indian Phytopathological Society, India. Dr.
Tiwari is also the recipient of many international travel awards given by
governmental agencies in India and others. He has visited Belgium, Bra-
zil, China, Italy, Germany, and Thailand for conferences and workshops.
Dr. Tiwari has been involved in the research on molecular characterization
and management of agricultural plant pathogens for the last nine years.
Currently he is working on molecular characterization of sugarcane phy-
toplasma and their secondary spread in nature. He is a regular member of
several professional organizations, including the British Society of Plant
Pathology, Indian Phytopathological Society, Sugarcane Technologists
Association of India, International Society of Sugarcane Technologists,
Society of Sugarcane Research and Promotion, and others. Dr. Tiwari
earned his PhD from CCS University, Meerut, UP, India.
Pradeep Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry,
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and
Technology (Deemed University-MHRD),
Nirjuli (Itanagar),
Arunachal Pradesh, India
Pradeep Kumar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of For-
estry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed
University-MHRD) (NERIST), Nirjuli (Itanagar), Arunachal Pradesh,
India. Before joining NERIST, Dr. Kumar worked as a Research Profes-
sor in the Department of Biotechnology at Yeungnam University, South
Korea. He was a postdoctorate researcher in the Department of Biotech-
nology Engineering at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba,
Israel, and awarded a PBC Outstanding PostDoc Fellowship for more than
three years. His areas of research and expertise are wide, including plant
pathology, bacterial genetics, insect-pest biocontrol, gene expression of
cry genes, plant-microbe interaction, and molecular breeding. He has been
honored with an international travel grant from Ben Gurion University of
Negev, Israel, to attend an international conference. He is the recipient of
About the Editors ix
a best paper presentation award as well as the Narasimhan Award from
the Indian Phytopathological Society, India. He presented several oral and
poster presentations at the various national and international conferences.
He has published one book and has published more than 40 research
articles, including original research papers in peer-reviewed journals and
several book chapters with international publishers, including Springer,
CABI, Bentham, and Apple Academic Press. He provides his service to
many journals as an editorial board member, technical editor, and peer
reviewer.
