Responses of plants to environmental stresses

Author(s)

• Levitt, J. (Jacob)

Bibliographic Information

Responses of plants to environmental stresses

J. Levitt

（Physiological ecology : a series of monographs, texts, and treatises / series editor, Harold A. Mooney）

Academic Press, 1980

2nd ed

• v. 1
• v. 2

Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Contents of Works

• v. 1. Chilling, freezing, and high temperature stresses
• v. 2. Water, radiation, salt, and other stresses

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780124455016

Description

Responses of Plants to Environmental Stresses, Second Edition, Volume I: Chilling, Freezing, and High Temperature Stresses encompasses essentially all the environmental stresses that have been intensively investigated. However, this edition does not include mineral deficiencies, which comprise too broad and involve a field to be incorporated with other stresses. This book attempts to analyze the possibilities of developing unified concepts of stress injury and resistance. Organized into four parts, this edition first discusses the stress concepts, particularly the stress and strain terminologies, as well as the nature of stress injury and resistance. Stresses at chilling, freezing, and high-temperatures are addressed separately.

Table of Contents

Preface Preface to the First Edition I. Sress Concepts 1. Stress and Strain Terminology A. Physical Stress and Strain B. Biological Stress and Strain 2. The Nature of Stress Injury and Resistance A. Stress Injury B. Stress Resistance C. Kinds of Stress Tolerance Bibliography (Preface, Chapters 1-2) II. Chilling Temperatures 3. Chilling Injury and Resistance A. Chilling Stress B. Chilling Injury C. Chilling Resistance Bibliography (Chapter 3) III. Freezing Temperatures 4. Limits of Low-Temperature Tolerance A. Dehydrated Protoplasm B. Hydrated Protoplasm C. Cryoprotectants 5. The Freezing Process A. The Freezing Stress B. Extracellular versus Intracellular Freezing C. Freezing, Undercooling, and Eutectic Points D. Freeze-Dehydration E. Measurement of Ice Formation in Plants 6. Freezing Injury A. Occurrence B. Primary Direct Freezing Injury C. The Time Factor in Relation to Injury D. The Moment of Freezing Injury E. Primary Indirect Freezing Injury F. Secondary Freezing Injury 7. Freezing Resistance-Types, Measurement, and Changes A. Possible Types of Resistance B. Measurement of Freezing Tolerance C. Changes in Freezing Tolerance D. The Nature of Freezing Tolerance 8. Factors Related to Freezing Tolerance A. Morphology, Anatomy, Organelles B. Physiological Factors C. Resistance Induced by Applied Substances 9. Theories of Freezing Injury and Resistance A. Primary, Direct (Intracellular) Freezing Injury B. Secondary, Freeze-lnduced Dehydration Injury 10. Molecular Basis of Freezing Injury and Tolerance A. Evidence for a Molecular Basis B. Membrane Damage as the Initial Injurious Strain C. The SH Hypothesis of Freezing Injury D. Mechanism of Freeze-lnduced Membrane Damage E. Freezing Resistance and the Hardening Mechanism F. Metabolic Control of the Hardening Process Bibliography (Chapters 4-10)IV. High-Temperature Stress 11. High-Temperature or Heat Stress A. Quantitative Evaluation of Stress B. Limit of High-Temperature Survival C. The Time Factor D. Occurrence of High-Temperature Stress and Injury in Nature E. Nature of the Injury F. Protective Substances 12. Heat Resistance A. Heat Avoidance B. Heat Tolerance C. Molecular Aspects of Thermotolerance D. Relationship between Thermotolerance and Low-Temperature Tolerance Bibliography (Chapters 11 and 12) Index

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780124455023

Description

Responses of Plants to Environmental Stresses, Second Edition, Volume II: Water, Radiation, Salt, and Other Stresses focuses on the effects of stresses on plants. This book discusses how stresses produce their damaging effects and how living organisms defend themselves against stresses. Organized into six parts encompassing 12 chapters, this edition starts with an overview of the various responses of plants to the severities of all the other environmental stresses, with emphasis on the physical and biological stresses and strains. This text then describes water stress in plants, which arise either from an excessive or from an insufficient water activity in the plant's environment. Other chapters consider the resistance to drought stress of plants. This book discusses as well the effects of flooding, which replaces gaseous air by liquid water. The final chapter deals with the comparative stress responses of plants. This book is a valuable resource for plant biologists.

Table of Contents

PrefacePreface to the First EditionContents of Volume II. Stress Concepts 1. Stress and Strain Terminology A. Physical Stress and Strain B. Biological Stress and Strain 2. The Nature of Stress Injury and Resistance A. Stress Injury B. Stress Resistance C. Kinds of Stress Tolerance Bibliography (Preface, Chapters 1-2)II. Water Stress 3. Water Stress, Dehydration, and Drought Injury A. Water or Drought Stress B. The Dehydration Strain C. Drought Injury 4. Drought Avoidance A. Classification of Adaptations to Water Stress B. Drought Avoidance 5. Drought Tolerance A. Dehydration Avoidance ?. Dehydration Tolerance C. Primary Direct Drought Tolerance D. Mechanisms of Drought Tolerance E. Relative Importance of Avoidance and Tolerance 6. The Measurement of Drought Resistance A. Yield as a Measure of Drought Resistance B. Survival Time C. Avoidance D. Tolerance E. Total Drought Resistance F. Identification of the Individual Factors Responsible for Drought Resistance 7. Excess Water or Flooding Stress A. Primary versus Secondary Excess Water Stresses B. Secondary O2-Deficit Stress C. CO2 and Ethylene Stresses D. Flooding-Induced Ion Stresses E. Flooding-Induced Water-Deficit Stress Bibliography (Chapters 3-7)III. Radiation Stresses 8. Radiation Stress-Visible and Ultraviolet Radiation A. Visible Radiation (Light) B. Ultraviolet Radiation 9. Ionizing Radiations A. Radiation Injury B. Radiation Resistance Bibliography (Chapters 8-9)IV. Salt Stresses 10. Salt and Ion Stresses A. Salt Stress ?. Salt Resistance C. Ion Stress Bibliography (Chapter 10)V. Other Stresses 11. Miscellaneous Stresses A. Minor Natural Stresses B. Man-Made Stresses Bibliography (Chapter 11)VI. Interrelations 12. Comparative Stress Responses A. The Concept of a General Stress Response B. Comparative Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Stresses C. Comparative Strain and Injury Responses D. Comparative Resistance Responses E. A General Hypothesis of Stress Injury and Tolerance Bibliography (Chapter 12)IndexErrata to Volume I

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Details

• NCID: BA03506360
• ISBN:
  • 0124455018
  • 0124455026
• LCCN: 79051680
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QK754
  • DC : 581.2/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Plants, Effect of stress on
  • LCSH : Plants -- Hardiness
  • LCSH : Botany -- Ecology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00583580