ISBN : 9780323917223
Author : Praveen Guleria
Publisher : Academic Press
Year : 2023
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Table of contents Cover image Title page Table of Contents Copyright List of contributors Editors biography Preface Section 1. Basics Chapter 1. Food crops, growth and productivity as an important focus for sustainable agriculture 1. Most popular food crops 2. Future challenges 3. Increasing growth and productivity of crops foods 4. Future perspectives Chapter 2. Challenges and opportunities to sustainable crop production 1. Present scenario of food production 2. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable food production 3. Conclusions Chapter 3. Molecular mechanisms and strategies in Response to abiotic stresses for the sustainability of crop production under changing climate 1. Introduction 2. Abiotic stresses and signal transduction: perceiving the stress signal 3. Molecular mechanism of abiotic stress tolerance 4. Role of small RNAs in abiotic stress tolerance 5. Strategies to develop abiotic stress tolerance for sustainability of crop production under changing climate 6. Conclusion Chapter 4. Small RNAs as emerging regulators of agricultural traits of food crops 1. Introduction 2. Biogenesis, classification, and modes of action of small RNAs 3. Small RNAs contribute to the agricultural traits of food crops 4. Conclusion and future perspectives Section 2. Small RNA from food crops: mechanism and regulation Chapter 5. Exploring small RNA in food crops: techniques and approaches 1. Introduction 2. High throughput next generation small RNA sequencing 3. Future perspectives Chapter 6. Plant small RNAs: biogenesis, mechanistic functions and applications 1. Introduction 2. Small RNA biogenesis and mode of action 3. Plant small RNAs in response to stress 4. Small RNAs of field crops 5. Small RNAs of horticultural crops 6. Cross-kingdom transfer of small RNAs 7. Small RNAs in the food and nutritional security 8. Concluding remarks Chapter 7. RNAi based approaches for abiotic and biotic stresses tolerance of crops 1. Introduction 2. Mechanism and biogenesis of sRNA 3. Role of small RNA in abiotic stress tolerance 4. Role of small RNA during biotic stress 5. Applications of RNAi technology in crop development 6. Conclusion and future prospective Chapter 8. Regulation of morphogenesis and development in food crops: role of small RNA 1. Introduction 2. Modes of sRNA transport to cell 3. Role of small RNAs in development, morphogenesis, and yield of the plant 4. Small RNA regulating growth and development related hormone signaling 5. Small RNA in disease resistance and stress tolerance in plants 6. Conclusion and future prospects Chapter 9. Small RNA – regulator of biotic stress and pathogenesis in food crops 1. Introduction 2. Plant immunity and small RNAs in plant defense 3. MicroRNA of plants 4. Small interfering RNA 5. Importance of small RNAs in biotic stress regulation 6. Circular RNA and its biogenesis 7. Small RNA movement between organisms to regulate plant-pathogen interactions 8. RNA based technologies for plant disease control 9. Conclusion Chapter 10. Small RNA networking: host-microbe interaction in food crops 1. Introduction 2. Differentially expressed stress responsive small RNA 3. Pathogenic interaction-triggers plant immunity 4. MiRNAs 5. MicroRNA like RNA 6. Si-RNA 7. Plant-microbe beneficial interactions 8. Small RNA in crop improvement 9. Conclusion Chapter 11. Small RNAs involved in salt stress tolerance of food crops 1. Salt stress is a main abiotic stress restricting growth and production of crops 2. Salt-responsive small RNAs are identified in different food crops 3. Common small RNAs involved in salt stress response of different food crops and their target genes 4. Salt tolerance improvement of food crops through manipulation of small RNAs Chapter 12. miRNAs perspective in mitigating waterlogging stress in plants 1. Introduction 2. Waterlogging effect on plant growth and development 3. miRNA biogenesis in plants 4. Expression and modulation of miRNAs and morphological adaptations 5. Conclusion Chapter 13. Molecular mechanisms alleviating drought stress tolerance in crop plants 1. Introduction 2. Drought stress tolerance in plants 3. Transcription factors engaged in abiotic stress resistance 4. Non-coding RNAs and drought stress 5. RNAi technology for the improvement of drought stress tolerance in crop plants 6. Conclusions Chapter 14. Grain development and crop productivity: role of small RNA 1. Overview 2. Fruit development; case study in Darwin's “abominable mystery” 3. miRNAs in citrus 4. miRNAs in Brassica 5. miRNAs in asterids (Solanaceae) 6. miRNAs in other asterids Oleaceae, Sesame, and Actinidiaceae 7. miRNAs in rosids 8. miRNAs in monocots 9. Conclusions and future prospects Section 3. Small RNA from food crops: mechanism and regulation Chapter 15. Food crops improvement: comparative biotechnological approaches 1. Introduction 2. miRNA-based biotechnology for food crop improvement 3. miRNAs roles in food crops improvement 4. Future perspectives Chapter 16. Small RNA transgenesis for abiotic stress tolerant food crops 1. Introduction 2. Introduction of sRNA transgenic technologies 3. Challenges: safety and specificity 4. Perspectives: better strategies and efficiency 5. Conclusion Chapter 17. Scope of small RNA technology to develop biotic stress tolerant food crops 1. Introduction 2. Effect of biotic stress on food crops 3. Role of small RNA in eliminating various biotic stress 4. Viral stress 5. Fungal stress 6. Conclusion Chapter 18. Future prospective of small RNA molecules: food crop improvement and agricultural sustainability 1. Introduction 2. Classification of sRNA 3. Micro RNA (miRNA) 4. Short-interfering RNAs (siRNA) 5. Biogenesis and mode of action of sRNA in plants 6. Comparison between miRNA and siRNA 7. Role of miRNA in food crop improvement 8. Role of siRNA in crop improvement 9. siRNA for nutritional enhancement in food crops 10. sRNA in developing climate-resilient food crop plants 11. sRNA-based approaches to develop biotic stress tolerance in crop plants 12. Pest and nematode resistance 13. Conclusion Index