Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Adaptation | Author: Roosa Laitinen (Author) | Edition: 1st | Language: English | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN-13: 978-1118860236 | Publication Date: April 27, 2015

Plants are forced to adapt for a variety of reasons—protection, reproductive viability, and environmental and climatic changes. Computational tools and molecular advances have provided researchers with significant new insights into the molecular basis of plant adaptation. Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Adaptation provides a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of these different mechanisms underlying adaptation to these challenges to plant survival.

The book opens with a chapter that explores the latest technological advances used in plant adaptation research, providing readers with an overview of high-throughput technologies and their applications. Subsequent chapters cover the latest developments on using natural variation to dissect genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic responses of plant adaptation. Plant responses to biotic and abiotic stressors and adaptive reproductive strategies are described in detail.

Emerging topics such as secondary metabolism, small RNA-mediated regulation, as well as cell type-specific responses to stresses are given special precedence. The book ends with chapters introducing computational approaches to study adaptation and focusing on how to apply laboratory findings to field studies and breeding programs.

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